“The team is dying with Diego Alonso and there is not even a 1% doubt in that”
MADRID, 28 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Sevilla FC player Sergio Ramos assured that the team is improving, that it needs to look forward and not to the irregular results of the past and that, being “to death” with the coach, Diego Alonso, they expect Sánchez-Pizjuán to be “hell “for PSV Eindhoven and to be able to win to gain respect in the continental elite and get closer to the round of 16 of the ‘Champions’.
“I have had the great luck to experience magical nights and also being a Sevilla fan, my family has experienced them, like the night with the rain against Manchester, they have been unforgettable nights. Hopefully tomorrow between the fans and us we will all be one, we will feel that heat that we only live here in Nervión. Hopefully tomorrow the stadium will be hell for the rival and that they really feel that not just anyone wins here,” he said at a press conference.
“I hope it is a magical night, I hope it is like that, right? For us I think it is a final more than a ‘Champions’ match. Tomorrow there is no margin for error, tomorrow everything must go perfectly, we must maintain the level of concentration from the first minute to the last and also value those small details that, especially in the ‘Champions’, do make a difference,” he added.
Sevilla, bottom of the group with 2 points in 4 rounds, needs to beat PSV no matter what in a “final”. “It is true that they are not doing well in the league, but tomorrow is a different competition. It is the maximum competition that the clubs can play and the team cannot fail. A true final. Tomorrow is a unique opportunity. It is vital to achieve victory and it is not time to look back, despite wanting to learn from the bad results we are obtaining,” he argued.
For the Camas center-back, the team has worked well and is willing to change the dynamic. “I think that the team has been working in a very good dynamic and I think that there is nothing that should distract us from that, we have to focus on continuing to grow, to continue improving, to continue learning in what we can still continue to perfect and in In that aspect, tomorrow we have a wonderful opportunity, in a special competition like the ‘Champions’,” he alleged.
And, after the departure of Mendilibar and the arrival of Diego Alonso, the team still needs time. “In the end, when you start to build something, you start from a base, it requires time and a process that is not done very quickly. Therefore, little by little, I believe that we are all getting to know each other much better, we begin to have everything quite clear and little by little because the team is doing quite a few things well, then perhaps we are missing the small details, such as small details of concentration at specific moments. We are in a moment of looking forward and trying to look for good results,” he reiterated .
All of this with self-criticism and without throwing the ball away. “The family and friends I have who are Sevillistas are the first who, when I meet with them, throw things in your face, that if ‘the team is the way it is’… My father is the first who, as a Sevillista, tells me that the team must win , but of course we understand people’s frustration and well in the end these are issues where when the team is worse, I think that is when we should be most united. When the team wins it is also thanks to the fans, when they lose we also need that love from all of them,” Ramos asked.
Regarding Diego Alonso, he assured that they are going all out with him. “I think what our coach must feel is that the team is dead with him and I believe that he has not even a 1% doubt in that, in the end the decisions are made from above. I think they do not even go through the coach “, nor for the players. We, as long as the coach is with us, of course we are going to go to the death,” he assured.
“And if you ask me on a personal level, I hope he stays with us for a long time because we trust him, because I think he is a coach who transmits very positive things and who has a very defined game criterion that can benefit us. In the end the That’s the misfortune of football, they are results and people don’t understand anything else. We may do a little more in-depth analysis but that’s a little more from the inside, from the outside maybe only the results are perceived. I hope the coach has a lot of time with us,” he said.
On the other hand, he believes that Sevilla must win the rest in the ‘Champions’ just as they did in the Europa League; talking on the grass. “What they need is to demonstrate and win. I believe that what ends up giving you respect in a competition is speaking on the field, not off it. And in that sense, Sevilla has been like this for a long time and now it’s their turn in the Champions League.” ‘We have a chance to win, to make a place for ourselves in the round of 16, but for that there is still a long way to go, we have to start winning tomorrow and then we will face the next game. What places you and positions you at the European level are the results,’ he said. .