Xabi Alonso believes that they should “demand a little more”

Xabi Alonso does not stop for a second to regret having fallen to relegation places after having lost four of his last five games and adding five points out of the last 21 possible. The technician of the opportunities He admits that the last defeat against Ibiza, “because of how it was, has hurt” but he becomes strong in the idea that “we knew that we were facing a season in which we would have to live with difficulties”. And, from that context of harshness, he focuses on “this is the game.”

To be able to win in Gijón, Alonso He repeated that “although it is true that we are doing many things well”, his team “has to demand a little more in difficult times.” The tolosarra alludes to those games in which they have advanced on the scoreboard but in which they have lost the advantage early. “We are close but we have to grasp it, mature to know how to play with the advantage in favor,” he said, recognizing that “against good teams away from home we are giving a competitive level” and that this gives him “confidence. The team is always ready to compete ”.

Has no doubt Xabi AlonsoIn addition, Sporting is a “very good team”, although now they have added a point in the last five games. “It is a team to go very forward. Very offensive, with a vocation to accumulate a lot forward ”, described the coach who has even gone further. “I like how they play, the courage they have and hopefully they are up for what they propose,” the subsidiary coach has gotten wet and expects “a very powerful game.”

A match, which, on the other hand, has generated the debate as to whether the Second should also stop in the FIFA windows for the national teams. Alonso It is clear that this “will end up happening” since “if we want a powerful Second and that is played under equal conditions, we must stop. In the Championship (the second English) there are 24 teams and when the national team plays, they stop ”.

The Sanse coach, finally, has had a nostalgic wink for the match stage, El Molinón, where 40 years ago the Real won their first league with his father, Periko, in the ‘eleven’ headline. “Maybe we will have to remind a player of what happened in El Molinon“, said Alonso admitting the passage of time. “La Real became so great on that afternoon 40 years ago and those images, the goal, the celebrations touched me very closely at home …” to be proud ”.