“The nerves to compete are noticeable in the locker room”

Jonathas de Jesus is back. Happy and happy to be one more and after leaving the coronavirus nightmare behind in their own meats. They have been difficult times, since that March 15, a week after beating Rayo in Vallecas, but the time has come “to think about the good,” says the Brazilian, and in the meeting that on Friday will measure Extremadura. “I feel very well and happier and fitter every day, which was the main thing of everything”, He recognized after training at the Altabix municipal sports center.

The Brazilian striker has lived his strangest season. He signed for Elche on January 31, on the last day of the winter market, and after doing an atypical preseason against the clock, he saw how everything changed due to the pandemic, giving positive immediately upon decreeing the state of alarm and repeating the result in the days prior to the return of the workforce. The player acknowledges that “it is normal for it to be difficult to get going, after three months without competing, but all the teams will be the same.” “The locker room is excited to leave the game on Friday with the three points,” he adds.

Jonathas, who could be a starter against Extremadura forming a couple with Nino, remembers how this half year in Spain has been, in which he has been away from his wife and two daughters who have not yet been able to fly from Brazil: “In January I was very happy and I was able to score in my first match against the fans. It was an enormous joy, But I can't stay there and I must continue that streak. The team must enter the field to do what it knows: play soccer with joy and common sense. “

The tickling is already noticeable among the players, who have 40 days ahead to define the objectives of an entire season. For Elche, now, without ties and with promotion as the only objective. “The truth is that the nerves and the desire of the players to compete and to be at the highest level are noticeable; We are very prepared and looking forward to the first match to start off on the right foot, “says the French striker.

Regarding the rival, Jonathas does not want to look beyond the “day to day” and forward that the duel against Extremadura “will be as difficult as everyone.” “We have to win and if we enter focused and together we will surely achieve all three points,” he points out. For this he relies on a template that says that it has “a lot of quality and that it is great. “Everyone is going to have to play and when the opportunity comes you have to enjoy yourself on the pitch, doing what the coach wants and with joy, “he says.

The only negative note will be the absence of public in the stands of Martínez Valero. For Jonathas “It will not be the same to play with the silhouettes, but surely from home people will be cheering and the team is going to compete for them because this fans deserve everything. “