Oscar Mingueza, defender of the Spanish under-21 team, highlighted, in the preview of the semifinals of the European of the category against Portugal, that several team players have “a lot of experience” in matches of this caliber and that this is a “very important” aspect in order to get to the final as it helps to face “the nerves and the pressure”.
“In the end it is true that I have experienced very demanding and complicated matches, but also like other teammates. We are an aspect with a lot of experience in these games and I see the team very motivated and eager. Having that experience is very important to deal with it in terms of nerves and pressure; We are very prepared ”, he said at a press conference.
A Mingueza that he can go from the right back to the center of the defense, the most common position for him until he arrived this season, due to the loss due to a penalty of a Hugo Guillamón of which he pondered his figure.
“He is a very important player for the team and very mature. Since he learned that he could not play, he has made the team concentrate and that it is as it should be. Although he cannot play, everything he has contributed is very noticeable, ”he commented.
“You learn a lot of things offensively and also in defense and I can better assess when I jump to pressure and when to hold out a little longer. They are things that if you play in both positions you can see better. I've grown a lot playing in both positions this year, ”he answered EFE about what he has learned from playing as a winger and what he can apply to the center-back position.
Mingueza He also commented on the incorporation of Eric Garcia, central, by the Barcelona: “Eric's signing is very good because he has played with Guardiola, who is a coach who practices the Masía philosophy that Eric carries the Masía game in its DNA. Barça tries to bring together the best players and, above all, being from the house, a very good signing ”.
Also appeared in a virtual press room a Manu Garcia who highlighted, as coach Luis de la Fuente did, the offensive virtues of Portugal: “I try to play possession football, help the team press up and keep the ball. Against a team like Portugal, which is to simulate us, as the coach has taught us, it will be a fight to have the ball ”.
Asked by EFE, he commented what changed at the break of the game against Croatia since in the second part a great version of the Asturian was seen: “Insisting on what we had been doing because in the second part they opened up a little more. We play a little more comfortable and we feel better. Hence, it will participate better. Sometimes it is a question of maturing the game and ending up receiving where it plays ”, he said.