Sergio Pellicer: “The game against Sporting will be high voltage”

There will be changes? “I already said in the Zaragoza preview that it will be 15 very intense days. It is true that there is room for maneuver to recover. It is clear that tomorrow against Mirandés there will be changes. Several players are going to participate because the other day we had a brutal physical exhaustion. The best way to train is to compete. Cristo and Orlando we think they can enter, although they may lack that rhythm. We are not going to give clues to the rival, but there will be changes ”.

Do you see the players more loaded? “I see them very well. To achieve a victory against a rival of the caliber of Zaragoza and the way it was achieved, the state of mind is paramount. From there players who have arrived a little later see that we are improving the data. We ran four kilometers more than the rival and made high intensity efforts more than the rival. You have to know how to read that data knowing that we are improving. The illusion of new people motivates us. We are going to try to give continuity to Zaragoza ”.

David Gallego has said that Malaga puts a lot of pace in the games. “Sporting is one of the teams that has achieved four victories in a row and that is very difficult in this category. It has very clear mechanisms. David comes from the Espanyol quarry with a very clear philosophy. Of dynamic and associative game. It is a team that handles all loopholes very well. On a defensive level he is very supportive. A team that keeps a clean sheet and achieves four consecutive victories. That is something very complicated in this category. We have to be very solid defensively. Be very vertical. It is a high voltage test. You have to try to make them feel uncomfortable, especially with those players like Manu García at the midfielder, they will create spaces and be very vertical ”.

How do you analyze the mess of the Friday and Monday schedules? “We have experienced it in the first person in the first days where the days changed and I already transferred it. There must be a lot of communication and empathy. Each one has to forget about individual egos at all levels. I hope everything is solved. You have to be very careful with your words. Behind the whole issue of schedules there is a lot of work ”.

Lombán. “David is coming off a week of recovery and training at a good pace. The other day he entered the call. Surely he will have options ”.

Room for improvement. “We always want to improve. In Zaragoza there were 20 or 30 minutes where the team felt very comfortable. It was efficiency in completion. The team was able to run. We would like to follow that line. Every game is different. We do not change based on the rival but for the players we can have. The most beautiful thing about our work is recycling every week ”.

What do you expect from this marathon of matches? “We do not think in the future but in the present. We want to continue competing and score points to get close to the 50-point goal and then work calmly and be ambitious ”.

Valuation of Luis Muñoz as ‘last minute signing and captain. “He is a boy who is from here next to the neighborhood. A player of the house with all the feeling and everything he transmits for young people. For every player from Malaga who dreams of playing for his city's team. We have seen its evolution. He has had to earn it and has had to leave several times on loan and experience the troubles of being away from home. Now it transmits that competitiveness and versatility that it has. That DNA to new people. For a coach it is very important to see the players and people who are with you happy. Happiness goes with the results. Luis transmits the values ​​of a little boy who has started football from the streets and has dreamed of playing for his hometown team ”.

The problem of COVID-19 in football. “It is a very complicated situation and we must have a lot of empathy. Right now this situation is not controlled. We have a daily control. We have already lived it and have unfortunately been seven months. We want this nightmare to pass as soon as possible and we have a normal life. In the competition every day is a stage and the technical teams work hour by hour ”.