Quite calm, true, without an iota of tension on your faceconvinced by his speech. The Hércules coach believes that the pit his team is in is accidental and that it will come out quickly and will soon reverse a situation where he admits “not good” with a possible 9 out of 1 point. .
“This Sunday victory (12 hours, against Peña Deportiva de Ibiza) This is really important. We have to win because the numbers we have are not from a team that wants to be at the top. You should open a clean slate. We have to focus on the next game, which will be a very difficult game. We got a team that did everything very well, and the important thing today is to take the victory above all else”, explains the Hércules coach, without going into further details.
Next week corrective That Mestalla applied to his team in Paterna is more intense than its predecessors. “Faces are always long after such a defeat, but The attitude of the players has been in the form of wanting to rebel against this situation.. There is more tension in the beginning, more silence, but as the days go by, you focus on the next goal. I hope we have learned from the defeat in Valencia,” said the León coach. responsibility The percentage of results is explained only by what happened on the field for 90 minutes.
When asked what causes this darkening in his opinion, he has no doubt: “In the last three days, what happened the team is not good, above all in Paterna. In the other two (Teruel and Ebro), we were no less than our competitors. In front of Mestalla, yes. we have to be learned that we should play the matches that we can’t win with our style, with another type of football, exposing ourselves less‘ warns the blue and white coach.
“We have to learn that when we can’t win with our style, we have to play a different kind of football with less exposure”
possibility of introduce the variations does not go into eleven or plans to change approaches angel Rodriguez. “In the many years I’ve been in this job (10 as assistants to Paco Herrera and three as managers) I’ve learned that changing many things from one day to the next doesn’t work.o The important thing is to get performance from the players, get the best version of them. It’s true that a team’s failure to win is because something is wrong because it shows weakness in a position. There may be some changes to give an opportunity to someone who hasn’t done it yet, but I don’t think changing everything is the best way. We still have one session left to run the tests,” he recalls.
“The important thing for me is to get the most out of the players, to get the best version of them.”
Rico Pérez is visiting a still undefeated team that has won 4 of seven games, the last three in a row, but he believes his name doesn’t scare the environment, his Leonese coach believes. “When you compare the name of Hércules’ opponent with the history of our club, it may seem to many that we are facing easy teams and that is not the case. In the fourth category, Peña Deportiva has a great block and is a tough enemy to beat. very competitive. If we can repeat our performance against Badalona and Espanyol B, we will be closer to winning than anything else”, Rodriguez repeats in a sincere, friendly tone, without squeaking.
The final results will not condition the proposal of the Hércules coach, who in his presentation promised, among other things, that “we will have fun at Rico Pérez” this year. Despite the last three games where the team has taken a few steps back, tactical ideology will remain: “Our goal is always to command, to have more ownership, to steal quickly and we will not give up on this. But this is not always possible because there are good teams in front of you that make your job very difficult and one of them is Peña Deportiva. years working on a single technician idea and so he gained a lot of qualifications”, warns the former head of Pontevedra, who was champion on the bench with him last year.