MADRID, 19 One. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The coach of the women’s Atlético de Madrid, Óscar Fernández, hopes this Thursday that the semifinal of the Spanish Super Cup against Levanta will be a match “very, very similar” to the one they had in the First Iberdrola and made it clear that they have “no pressure” for defending title.
“It’s going to be a game very, very similar to the one in the League. We’re both going to press hard, to want to dominate and subdue the rival in the opposite field, it will be defined by small details,” Fernández admitted this Wednesday at a press conference.
In any case, he doesn’t want to pay too much attention to the irregular ‘granota’ moment compared to that of the rojiblancas because it is “a very different competition”. “Last year perhaps Atlético did not arrive in a very positive dynamic and could win the semifinal and then the final,” he recalled.
“I think that what happens in the League has nothing to do with it, although it is true that this good run makes us trust in the work we are doing and believe in all the processes that we are generating to win this tournament. We have to face the semifinal with the lesson learned that anyone can beat you in a game and you will have to fight and be focused for 90 or 120 minutes to beat Levante”, he added.
The mattress coach pointed out that the Levante that Ángel Villacampa trains has “a different one” from that of María Pry and that it has changed “quite a lot”, while his is finding “different nuances” and that an “important” one is that they want to bet on transitions “very fast” because it has “players to do it and penalize the rival”. “Without the ball we try to press very high and risk a lot with a line of three, worse is what the players want, we are being brave with and without the ball,” he explained.
On the other hand, he ruled out that they have “pressure” to defend the title. “I live with natural winners on a daily basis. We are Atlético de Madrid and we have to win every day, the pressure lives with us. They compete in training, which is crazy and when you’re like this, it doesn’t matter if it’s a semifinal or a match less relevant,” he warned.