“Porto starts as more favorites than Milan and us”

With the serious gesture Simeone appeared telematically before the media this morning. The hard defeat against Mallorca, the immediacy of a game where the team, and the club, play so much, the eighth of the Champions League, the all or nothing of a season that, if lost, can be touched, the last blow: Giménez does not arrive, He only has a ‘healthy’ center-back in the squad to face the duel (Felipe is suspended). Still, believe. He said so. He wants to put that verb into action. To believe.

-Recipe for the game tomorrow, how important is the psychological to lift the team before a game like this, after the defeat against Mallorca: “There are only a few days between the two games. Obviously when we have time to work we work it to achieve the situation we create. Now we are talking to find the ways that lead us to feel good in which field, which is the only thing that matters to me, that we can control the game, the match and, from there, things will appear. Psychologically too. Winning is always healthy, it does well and tomorrow we have a very important game with an opponent who competes very well, who is first in the Portuguese league, Milan also in Italy. All the teams that are very strong, very well and we will have to take the game where we believe in to be able to do damage ”.

-Giménez: “Giménez is not going to be there and he will surely have a group of men who will know how to carry out a situation, in which we do not have three centrals of the four available, to win the game.”

-Limited situation, how would you encourage a follow that right now has many doubts this team is going to do it again: “I always say that words are useless. Only the facts work and I absolutely trust my team ”.

-What leads him to grow after the Champions team career: “I train with them, I know their character and I trust them.”

-Critics, wear after ten years or they don’t tire you: “Never since I played soccer and later became a coach have I been excited by the praise and depressed by the criticism. I know it is part of what we do. I have a path, I know what I want and we are going to look for it ”.

-Center of the field, how are you analyzing it, there you may have one of the possible problems when controlling the games: “I always consider that when the team has some situations to improve, it goes through the whole team. I do not identify only a defensive midfield and forward. I consider that the work is collective and over 10 plus the goalkeeper who is on the field, helps to improve defensively and offensively ”.

-Porto has footballers who need special attention, like Díaz, or are not afraid of anything: “Porto has an extraordinary group that has been doing very well in previous years. He is very strong defensively, with many people to recover the ball generating from the cons and pressure, with an intense game with good speed. He is very good, he generates a lot of play and, partly, as at the beginning of this last day, more favorite than all: he is the one who has the most points, ahead of Milan and us ”.