MADRID, 25 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Real Sociedad coach, Imanol Alguacil, assured that Real Madrid, their rival this Friday in LaLiga EA Sports, “is a champion and great team” and that therefore “it doesn’t matter where they come from, what they have or who plays “, and stated that there is “no doubt” that “it is always competitive”, demanding that his team be “correct at all levels.”
“Real Madrid is a great team and it doesn’t matter where they come from, what they have next week, whoever plays tomorrow. They are going to play as they always do, to win, because they are a champion team, they have done so.” demonstrated throughout its history,” Alguacil stressed this Thursday before facing a rival that has just won the Classic to almost seal the title and that on Tuesday faces the semifinals of the Champions League against Bayern.
The Gipuzkoan stated that “Real Madrid has a huge squad, with brutal quality and a great coach.” “Ancelotti is the best coach he has had in recent years and it is a pleasure and an honor to be able to play against him and against this Real Madrid,” he confessed..
The realistic coach pointed out that for Friday’s game the important thing is what they do because he expects “a powerful Real Madrid as always because they have a great squad, regardless of who is on the field.” “He has shown it with the numbers,” he remarked.
“Despite the losses they have had throughout the season, we already see the level that those who are playing are giving. If they decide to make any changes, a player of great quality will emerge because he belongs to Real Madrid. What we have no doubt is that he is always competitive, he has shown it throughout the year and this Friday is not going to be different,” he concluded.
Regarding the tactical ability of the white team, he recalled that “it is very complicated” to analyze the Madrid team “because all their players move a lot” and “they are a very difficult team to get ahold of defensively because they move a lot.” “They also have a quality that does not lose the ball, so at that level it is very complicated and their coach has a lot to do with that,” Alguacil stressed.
In this sense, the realistic coach highlighted that Real Madrid “was not inferior” against Manchester City and that “they did an enormous defensive job because they have a competitive gene that is above all doubts.” “It is also no coincidence that Real Madrid, when they lose on the scoreboard, are able to come back in any way,” he pointed out.
The Basque pointed out that Ancelotti’s team “have only lost one game, with all the losses and important games they have had” and that he is showing “mental fatigue.” “They have a great competitive spirit that very few have,” highlighted the Real coach, who knows that to achieve victory his team must above all “have your best possible day and be right, above all, in front of the goal.”
ASK HIS FANS TO “SET AN EXAMPLE”
Real Sociedad enters the match after two consecutive draws against Almería and Getafe, two matches in which they failed to achieve a goal. “Last year we won many games 0-1, 1-0, and surely generating much less than the Almería game. It is football, and if when you have the moment you are not correct and you do not ‘kill’ the rival team, well Things happen like the one in Almería or Getafe,” he explained.
“When you are capable of generating, you have to ‘kill’, especially if you leave a team like Real Madrid alive, which is capable of generating a chance for you in any way. Let’s see if we are right at all levels and that is why It is important that in the moments when we do not have the ball we are a supportive and forceful team on a defensive and offensive level. I think that if we have our day, this team has shown that it is capable of generating chances against any opponent,” Alguacil explained.
Asked about the change in the match schedule so that Real Madrid can better prepare for the clash against Bayern, he avoided any controversy because “it is good” that they help “each other”, although he hoped that “it is not just for one team and make it the same as another.”
The Basque coach does not forget that “the fans are very important” and hopes that there will be a “‘great atmosphere'”, but he asked his fans to behave “as they do most of the time” and “set an example”, making it clear that “they do not what happened in Getafe can happen” with the insults to Mason Greenwood.
Alguacil praised the commitment and recovery capacity of Brais Méndez, who has returned to training after a broken toe, while he confirmed that Kieran Tierney “will not be here for this week or next” after relapsed. of his muscle injury.
Finally, regarding the fight to be in the Europa League, the Basque considered that “it would be something historic.” “I think that both the players and I have a crazy desire to be able to enter the Europa League once again,” acknowledged the ‘txuri-urdin’ coach.