It is useless not to look, to close your eyes, to hide. Tomorrow, Lolo Escobar’s Hercules is at stake, and most importantly, the true nature of the change the Alicante team has undergone since arriving with Ángel Rodríguez’s replacement. Valencian subsidiary suddenly vented all the blue and white shortcomings in the first round and now before entering the decisive phase he will decide whether he is corrected or not.
The Extremadura coach is very aware and, he says, so are his players. “We took care to remind the locker room of that match to be a source of motivation. the bathroom that hit us that day, we believe it is important to do so to speak to the pride of the team. Our main motivation should be not to repeat the same match. We have to make it an encounter between equals, make things a lot harder for them than they were that day,” I wished.hello escobar Before taking Valencia-Mestalla.
“We took care to remind the locker room of that match in Paterna to appeal to the pride of the locker room”
Considers the block trained by the technician. Miguel Angel Angulo He is the strongest of the group on offense. “An opponent that requires you to do a lot of things well to beat him. It will not be enough to be together all the time, it is necessary to attack them, force them to defend themselves, make them feel the danger, and force them to take precautions so that they do not go too far. What they suggest is that it’s very important that you don’t play at the pace they feel comfortable with, you shouldn’t make them feel comfortable, we’re the ones imposing how you should play,” explains Escobar, who acknowledged this. several options for profit if you can’t cut the circulation rhythm when they have the ball.
“It is not enough to be together, it is necessary to attack, to feel the danger, to take precautions, to break the rhythm”
“Yes, you must be together, but you must also be successful with the ball and, above all, prevent them from playing at the cruising speed that suits them,” the Extremadura man insisted. don’t repeat 3-1 of the first leg. The coach was hoping to improve the image of the last games at José Rico Pérez, especially the signed match against leader Teruel, because as he admitted, “took our colors pretty well”, conceding that this was “the worst game we’ve had since I got here because we weren’t on our level, they outdid us on everything”.
Despite being aware of the transcendent nature of this Sunday’s conflict and the degree of demand required to resolve it successfully, Escobar also added the intensity of the conversation. release pressure To his players: “No one can guarantee that we will play the ‘play-off’ if we win, and that we will play if we lose.”
“We want to beat them because in a week we get into the real matches of the last ten days, where Luis Aragonés always stands out.”
“We want to win because we get into real games in a week. last ten days, where the legs tremble and yes or yes, you need to step forward. i was telling Luis Aragones, the trainer of trainers, and he was absolutely right. A lot has happened in the last ten games,” said the man from Badajoz.
Mestalla won 7 matches at home and fell in only two of his twelve starts. This is statistically, best visitor He leaves the group with 24 points. He is also one of the players who scored the most (37) and conceded the least (15). Their nine points lead over Hércules speaks to the difficulty of the challenge that awaits them in the blue and white stadium on Sunday morning (12:00).
Miguel Ángel Angulo convinced to win in Alicante
“My team knows the importance and the difficulty of the match. A great derby of the Valencian Community.. We’re leaving with the desire to play a good game, do a good job and get the three points,” says the coach of the Valencia subsidiary. “We are looking for stability in the schedule of home and away games. We become more stable and finishing at home. Creating a template very nice feelings and it gives us a lot of safety and peace of mind because we show that we have very clear ideas”, stresses Valencia coach Rico Pérez before visiting the stadium. made his debut as a striker.. It was in the second division of the King’s Cup on 8 October 1997. Valencia beat a Hercules 0-3 as they struggled for promotion to the First Division that season.