Monchi, sports director of the Sevilla FC, has offered an extensive interview to Sports stadium in which, among many other things, he has referred to the intense calendar that is coming to Nervión’s team, being fully involved in the two-legged tie against Barcelona in the Cup semifinals.
“Barça can never be welcomed, in quotation marks, in any kind of confrontation or confrontation because it is a very complicated rival and that also possibly right now in the best moment of the season. After a hesitant start, they have taken an important cruising speed and there are the numbers in LaLiga, where they have won seven consecutive games. So, it is going to be a complicated rival to one or two games“explains the one from San Fernando.
In relation to the tie being a double partyNor is it a detail that worries him excessively: “I also don’t see that much difference in one or two games. I think it will be a rival that will demand a lot from us and that we will have to try to beat with our arguments, our style, our philosophy. … and a little more”.
Asked how uncomfortable the cup match could have been, also for Barcelona, Monchi highlighted the level of the Sevilla FC: “I think that when one reaches a semifinal of any tournament it is difficult to find an affordable rival. I think that Sevilla FC is an uncomfortable opponent for any team. Usually you have to beat him, you have to beat him. He does not usually give anything away. I imagine, therefore, that they were not very happy with the match either because I think they will value the trajectory of Sevilla FC in recent times “.
Asked about the possibility that the Cup Be the Most affordable way to win a degree This season, with Atlético taking the initiative before the doubts of Real Madrid and Barcelona, and waiting for Dortmund in the Champions League, Monchi was blunt: “Starting from the basis that the most important competition, for me, is still LaLiga, because it is the Competition that, I think I listened to Valdano, feeds you. Obviously there is an illusion in the Cup, because tomorrow we will play the Cup. And on Friday or Saturday there will be a tremendous illusion in LaLiga because we play against Huesca. Or on Tuesday in the Champions League because we play against Dortmund. I believe that a team that aspires to consolidate itself in the elite cannot select moments. You have to live each moment to the fullest. “
“Today is the Cup and you have to be one hundred percent focused, and then in Huesca. The same with Dortmund. This is how you grow, not selecting the games. Facing each game as if it were the last,” he concluded.
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