“Hopefully it will be like that”. José Luis Martí, coach of Sporting, does not hide his desire for Djuka to be available against Cartagena after learning that the player has been summoned by his team for two friendly matches, against Armenia and Greece. The rojiblanco striker tries to negotiate with his Federation that at least allow him to advance his return, as reported by LA NUEVA ESPAÑA, playing only the first of the games and then returning to Gijón in time to participate in the duel against the Cartagena, scheduled for the 27th of March.
Djuka began contacts with the Montenegrin Federation last Friday to try to agree on a formula that would not lead him to miss a league match with Sporting. At the moment, there is no news to release at least one of the two games. In principle, the player has in mind to have a conversation with his coach at the beginning of the concentration of Montenegro that can help bring together some positions that remain distant. “I’ll leave it on stand-by,” says Martí about the desire of his top scorer to focus on the visit to Sanse.
“The team is very eager, in the spirit of revenge. We have nothing else on our minds other than victory”, underlines the Balearic about the duel against Real B. “I saw the game (against Zaragoza) twice. We have to have more patience. Do not confuse speed and verticality with precipitation. My job is to prepare the players for that”, he says about the mistakes of the past matchday. The coach does not rule out changes beyond Berrocal’s suspension due to suspension and hints that Babin and Borja López will be the starting central defenders. “There is full confidence in them,” he stresses. As for whether there are doubts with the goal, he gives no clues. “We always look for the best eleven,” he says. He describes the attitude of Kravets, Bogdan and Eric Ramírez as “exemplary” because of what they are suffering in the face of the war in Ukraine and says of his return to Anoeta, since he played for six months at Real, as “a place where I learned a lot. Some of the things that I instill in my teams I learned there with Juanma Lillo”.
Villalba and Valiente prove themselves
Villalba and Valiente test each other this morning
Fran Villalba and Marc Valiente will test this morning to see if they are fit to travel to San Sebastian. The team trains at 10:30 am in Mareo and at 6:00 pm they will begin the trip to San Sebastian. Sporting only has Berrocal’s suspension due to suspension. Both Valiente and Villalba trained yesterday apart from the rest of their teammates for the third consecutive day. The two soccer players were seen on field number 2 of Mareo under the supervision of Carlos Catroagudín, red-and-white trainer.
