The sports director of Sevilla, Monchi, has expressed confidence that Julen Lopetegui’s team wins in Salzburg and advance to the next round of the UEFA Champions League. The man from Cádiz has confessed that in the hours before the important games he has a hard time.
“I am stressed, nervous and looking forward to the time of the game. It is an important day, a definitive day and an unexpected ending… I don’t know if unexpected, but final, sure, because there is no tomorrow. This is today and there are also few options: win or win ”, he said. the one from San Fernando to the club’s media.
Monchi believes that the image that the team has given in recent games has raised the morale of their team. “Sevilla fans are hopeful that the team will rise to the occasion. This group transmits that, confidence, it may or may not fail, but people know that the team will be there. I want to imagine a game in which Sevilla is dominant, to be able to swim and put away clothes. Joan Jordán has given the key a bit, because in a round trip they can hurt us. We are going to try to be in control of the game, turn, go around, not obsess, not rush … That is the game I want, a game in which we force Salzburg to defend in a very low block and we do not allow him to go against it “.
The sports manager does not want to look back and think about the draws and the defeat against Lille that have led Sevilla to gamble in this match. “Looking back can serve to whip us, it is not worth it.. We are where we are, we warned him at the time, that the group was strange, with not very flashy names but with very competitive teams. I don’t think there are many groups where anyone can be first, second, third or fourth. We have to look ahead, for today, which is the present and assume that we are as we are and that, despite everything, we depend on ourselves. “
On the winter market, the former goalkeeper acknowledges that the casualties will force Sevilla to move. “The plans are there and we are going to try to be as coherent as possible, evaluating the sporting situation and the economic situation. If Lamela had not been injured and En-Nesyri had not left the situation would be good … Maybe now the profile of what we want to bring changes. We have to make a total change in the route time, but we do have to rectify it. “