MADRID, 25 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The men’s national soccer coach, Luis de la Fuente, reiterated that they keep their “feet on the ground” despite the promising start they have had in the German Euro Cup, where they have gone to the round of 16 with full points and without conceding a goal. goal, and made it clear that the players themselves are the ones who put the most demands on themselves because they know that “fighting for something important requires you to give your best.”
“The enthusiasm is free, but always with your feet on the ground, it is a good engine to generate other positive feelings and the desire to achieve something important. It does not guarantee anything, we know that this is very difficult, that all games are one-sided. tremendous equality,” De la Fuente explained at a press conference after the victory against Albania.
The man from La Rioja warned that the full points score “has a lot of merit” and that it should be done with a “zero goal.” “Some teammates have told me that this is the first time that a qualifying phase has taken place in the history of European and World Cups, and we must give it that importance, but always with the calm and tranquility that each match is different,” he stressed. .
“This does not compromise anything. We celebrate that people value the work and recognize the talent of this generation of footballers, especially these footballers, but I insist, it does not guarantee anything, we continue to have our feet on the ground because we also know that each match is very difficult, that the next rivals are going to be demanding, that here we are the best we will give and I really don’t give it more importance to being a favorite than the value given to a team,” continued the man from Haro.
He insisted on asking for “prudence.” “We already know how we spend it in Spain, that we spend one day being at the top and the next day you are worthless, so prudence for those evaluations and above all recognition to a group of footballers who are doing, I believe, the best possible job since conviction and, above all, generating enthusiasm, which is very important,” he remarked.
De la Fuente considered that this match against Albania “a bit of the game plan” of the national team was maintained and that it had developed as they had “foreseen.” “I think we played a good first half and in the second we lost control. But there are positive aspects in which we have had to work a lot such as transitions or withdrawals, and I think the team shows its attitude and generosity “he pointed out.
“The room for improvement I still think is the same, is that the relationship of footballers we have is exceptional and that they can give even more of themselves. They are the first to demand themselves, I think in everything because fighting to achieve something important “it demands you to give the best of the best, half measures are not worth it here and in the round of 16, regardless of the rival we have, it will demand more from us and in the quarterfinals more and so on,” he added.
De la Fuente recalled that having kept a clean sheet in this group “is the work of a collective and a group of committed players.” “What determines a great team is balance and I think we have it. I stick with that reading of the team and the group, of understanding the game,” he commented.
“It seemed to me that the team had a very good phase and I think that the matches of both Croatia and Italy were of a very high level. In that offensive phase I think we are very brilliant and in defense the numbers say that We are also very solvent,” added the coach.
HE IS NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THE APPARENT LACK OF OFFENSIVE FORCENESS
The Riojan has no worries about the lack of a goal after the forcefulness shown in the debut against Croatia. “I’m not worried about that because this is a team that shows that when it has the chance to score a goal, it does so and we have created chances, which is the most important thing. I am totally sure that the path we are following is the right one and I once again insist on that.” room for improvement that we have that will mean that in the next game we will all be much better,” he said.
Regarding the crossing and the fact of not yet knowing the rival, the coach does not hide that “some night” it will be up to him and his staff “to almost stay awake because now we will have to study more rivals and have everything planned for when truly determine who is the right one.”
“We surely have to wait until Wednesday, there is no other option, but in any case we will be psyched up and prepared so that we have to go all out to overcome this tie,” he noted.
Regarding the distribution of minutes, he celebrated that they have managed to ensure that all the players except Alex Remiro have played “already in this competition” and that they included starters such as Robin Le Normand, Álvaro Morata and Lamine Yamal during the game due to “the reading” of the game and that they had “scheduled” that the Real Sociedad center back and Aymeric Laporte would play “half time each.”
Finally, at an individual level he was asked by Lamine Yamal and Dani Olmo. On the wing, he said that the rivals have changed their “attitude” towards him because he is already “well known and recognized in the international world” and the defenders are “concerned because he is very good”, a sign that they were not wrong in selecting him. . “We knew that it was also a game that was going to demand a lot from him and we told him to try not to look for very individual actions because the situations could get tougher,” he confessed.
“Dani Olmo seems to me to be a footballer of a higher level and I have a ‘top’ value for him, but this is a team and they perfectly assume the role that they have to occupy at any given moment. Dani is a team player, a national team player, very talented, but that highlights the general good rather than the individual. That in each match we have the possibility of solving game situations with more footballers is very good,” he admitted.
2024-06-24 22:15:59
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