“The match against Athletic is a final”

The midfielder of Real Valladolid Óscar Plano has assured this Thursday, at a telematic press conference, that the team is “very eager” for Sunday to come to play against Athletic and that “we are going to see a compact team” to “add the three points”.

“The team is mentally strong, because we know there are bad spells, and it has happened other times and we have recovered, so on Sunday we have to take a step forward to achieve that victory that will give more confidence, since the work daily is good and all that remains is to transfer it to the grass ”, he commented.

Plano recalled that “In the last two years it has gone through bad situations, and the team took the claw” And, although now “it seems that the situation is uglier”, the veterans can “teach” this to the new ones, “that you can get out, and that there is time to change this dynamic.”

In this sense, he has insisted on pointing out that “It is difficult to maintain regularity for a whole season” and, therefore, they are aware that “there are bad phases, with several games in which you don't win”, but the team “does things well” and works to “improve” and “correct mistakes”.

Some failures that, at the beginning of the campaign, are “taking a toll on them” and which are due, above all, to “concentration errors”, hence they are influencing in increasing this capacity and keeping the team “together and at the top “, Because they are aware that” this is going to change “and they trust it to be this Sunday.

“It may be difficult for them to get on with the new ones, but the team has clear ideas and I think that if you win, you will learn to value yourself more, because there are great players, whose only objective is to win and leave behind this bad start “, has specified.

He has also ratified the confidence of the squad in the coaching staff: “we are to death with Sergio and now what is needed is that we all row in the same direction, so that whoever wants to get on the boat will be welcome, and whoever don't believe in the team, let them get off ”.

An assertion that he has specified, indicating that “if there is no union, this will go to shit” and he is clear that they will achieve, one more year, “that the team continues to be in First”, for which he considers fundamental “the strength of the group, assuming and correcting what is done wrong, and enhancing what is done well ”.

In his opinion, the party against Athletic “It's a final” and everyone is going to “Give the maximum” to “Come out fully focused”, avoiding those mistakes that “are being paid hard” and turning, once again, the José Zorrilla stadium “into a fortress”, as has happened in previous campaigns.

“We know that even if we win this game, the league continues, and there will be more bad moments, but we are all psyched to make the team as high as possible, “he added, while appealing to match or exceed the” intensity and strength “of the Basque team to achieve that victory that” will surely change things ” .