Eibar host Valencia on Monday with a clear objective: to win for the first time this season at home and to continue the triumph achieved in Seville against Betis. “It's what we want as a team,” he admitted. Jose Luis Mendilibar. “When you win one and then another, it seems that you gain confidence in what you do. It would be important and it is also at home, where we have not yet won. But the important thing is to score in order to have a clear objective ”, he clarified.
In the view of the Zaldibar coach, it is not so strange that his team has not been able to add three in their fiefdom yet. “I think that in general most of the teams are scoring less points at home than other times. I imagine that something will have to do with the lack of fans in the fields because in the end you are playing like a Thursday game, during the week. Maybe that's why it costs more to maintain intensity and concentration than having people in the field, ”he explained.
Yes, Mendilibar you want the first home win not to take too long. “To maintain the category you usually need the home points. But for us this season is the opposite. I always say the same, you have to get points from wherever. But we also know that sooner or later we will stop winning abroad and by then we will have to score points at home as well ”, he warned
The Eibar coach does not trust his next rival, a Valencia that “I think has great players. A lot has changed and good people have left, but you go through all of them one by one and I think they are all very good footballers, and it is clear that they are scoring a lot of goals. It is one of the teams that has the most goals in favor, also the ones that have the most against it, but the goal in favor without good footballers is very difficult to do. In that sense, it's going to be a tough team. Usually he does not start games well because it is difficult for him to enter. Makes second parts better than first ones. We are going to see what happens on Monday ”, he analyzed.
In his view, it will be very important “to be us and above all not to make mistakes” if they want to take the three points against Mestalla. “On the day of Cádiz, for example, when we lost 0-2, I think we played very well for half an hour, but we gave two options, they scored two goals and we couldn't do anything else. It's hard for us to score goals at home, but if they don't score you either, one point, it's not winning, but it's adding. The important thing is to play with a great concentration so that the rival does not generate danger to you ”, demanded.
To continue, Jose Luis Mendilibar He was also asked about the work that his counterpart is doing on the Valencia bench, Javi grace. “The situation is not easy. Valencia has always been difficult, now and before. They are in a situation where they don't know clearly what they are playing, but as I said before, they have great footballers ”.
“I don't care who scores the goals”
Jose Luis Mendilibar was also asked about the Japanese forward Yoshinori
Mutt, who against Betis scored his first goal with the elastic armera. “Whenever the forwards put in it is good for them, especially for their head,” he began by saying. “But for the team, I don't care whether he or Esteban Burgos, for example. The question is to score goals. I do not value the forwards only for the goals they score, but for the work they do. In the time that we have been here there will be a striker who has scored 14 or 15 goals in a season, but it is not very normal either. Putting in eight, nine or ten is worth it, because that means that the goals will be more distributed ”, he replied.
However, “what I do demand of them is work. If we want to play with two forwards we have to do a defensive job from above and that is not going to be discussed. The good of 'Yoshi'Is that he is entering to do that task of doing a good job for the team. When he came, it was thought that the forward was to score goals and little else. But here it is the opposite, we will do the other and if you score a wonderful goal, “he recalled Jose Luis Mendilibar.