Girona will face this Thursday from 4:00 p.m. the round of 32 of the Copa del Rey against Osasuna in Montilivi, in a one-game tie that Míchel considers will be “open” and in which despite the fact that the Navarrese are “The favorites”, thinks that theirs will have “options” to pass the round.
“We take the tie conscientiously knowing that we want to stay alive in a competition as beautiful as the Cup, but we face it assuming that the management of the minutes will depend on the loads that we believe are optimal so as not to harm the player for Sunday ”, Explained Míchel, who thinks that tomorrow’s meeting is good for them.
“We have to finish deciding how we started and how we ended up knowing the potential of Osasuna. Borja and Artero will be headlines and the rest will be some of the less common, but there will also be some who accumulate many minutes because we know how many casualties there are, “said the Madrid coach, who will not be able to count on Ramon Terrats, Darío Sarmiento, Oscar Ureña, Pablo Moreno, Stuani and Arnau Martínez.
The coach insisted over and over again that tomorrow will not be an eleven “to give rest”. “We will put a team rewarding the daily work and knowing that the Cup can change the ownership of a player whose example you have in goal. Now I have doubts about who to choose in the league, ”said Míchel, who is clear about the context of the tie.
“They come from 10 consecutive games without winning in the league and I think they need to be able to get a good result. They will want to break with the bad dynamics and us the other way around, try to extend our good moment. We know that they are the strongest team and the favorite, but we are convinced that playing at the level we can give we will have our options ”, he declared.
New opportunity for young people
Míchel only confirmed the ownership of two footballers, one of them the youth squad Ricard Artero, whom he praised in his appearance. “He comes from doing two excellent qualifying rounds and we want him to continue to show that he is taking steps forward every day. Tomorrow is a new opportunity for him and for the rest of those who will come, “said the Girona coach, who regretted that the subsidiary central Èric Monjunell could not be with the team due to Covid