The coach of the Raise, Paco Lopez, explained this Friday that tomorrow at the Wanda Metropolitano expect a match similar to the one played last Wednesday at the Ciutat de València and in which his rival would again have the initiative and would be the dominator.
“Then the matches go the way they do, but it's true that I don't expect a match, I'd like to, being we tremendously dominating”, Said the Valencian coach after the team training.
“They had more possession, the initiative in the game and we will try, if that can happen again, to do the best match possible without losing our DNA and to compete in the same way ”, remarked the Levante coach.
Paco López recalled that they face the leader of the League that “has only lost one game” and insisted that they will do “whatever the rival lets you do.”
Given the three casualties he has in the center of the field and the tight schedule of Levante in 2021, the coach announced that he will return to maintain their usual system of changes in the starting eleven, despite the fact that it is “difficult to understand from the outside.”
“Throwing it all out makes me laugh. We have always played with everything and we will continue to play with everything, and everything is everything and that is why we have 24 players and everyone is going to help us and everyone has to be ready to help us, ”he commented.
Paco López pointed out that he believes they have managed the effort “in an adequate way” of his players and did not want to make excuses for the wear and tear on his squad. “It is what it is. The pace is brutal, the efforts are tremendous and it has been a very tough season for everyone. The show could be better but we take it on, ”he declared.
The Levante coach also He announced that Nikola Vukcevic is already recovered of his back injury and was cautious about recovering Nemanja Radoja, who was injured this week in the game against Atlético de Madrid.