Bad day. Definitely the worst. Tension builds up and the need for justification drives some protagonists to construct unsustainable discourses with objective data that are hard to assimilate. Lolo Escobar’s speech in the press room yesterday before the game against Formentera is a clear example of the game the nerves can play for a greater (blank) sense of balance and power to be conveyed.
Defending seven days ago that he was aiming to reach the 5th place with 30 points when he landed in Alicante, the coach in blue and white gave each man another bend on this road for himself… times seen in this city and this team.
One defeat to his predecessor in the number of failures (5) and the number of matches (13) the Extremadura coach reassured without hesitation when he agreed to take the reins of the blue and white project, he was “sink into descent”, far from salvation, but in reality it was not was very far from it.
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“Some of the recent defeats have been difficult, difficult to absorb, but we cannot stay there, we must move forward. You have to fight for the goal of winning and permanence. When I came, this team was 4 points away from relegation, which we forget very quickly. And now, even though we lost, we are fighting to get into the ‘play-off’, taking advantage of the rest of the opponents giving us life with their irregularities,” he explains. .
Putting aside the very controversial idea that he was hired by marking salvation as an absolute priority, Hercules was thirteenth after the first 13 dates when Escobar took charge of the locker room. After the draw at Olot that led to the sacking of the former Pontevedra coach, he was in the permanent “play-off” position, one point below the 12th place in the knockout table, Badalona Futur. On the descent, he slept for a week, exactly the previous week, after the 12th match day and the moment of maximum tension in the stadium after the defeat of Lleida, but on a par with them in points, and then marked salvation.
When Lolo Escobar arrived in Alicante just before the 14th match day, he claims to have captured the team “four points from the save”, although the facts deny this.
We are going through tough times, things are not going as expected, and there is more and more similarity in the treatment of the consequences crisis that Ángel Rodríguez practiced until his dismissal. Also for Escobar, “we weren’t that good when we won, we weren’t that bad when we lost now” came to appear on the eve of tomorrow’s critical duel against the island team, which is 4 points ahead of Alicante team.
“This final is neither more nor less final than the previous ones, I hope we are up to the task this time… at least in the final outcome, which is really important,” says Don Benito’s coach.
Disappointed with the second unit
“I had a very clear type of eleven in my mind, but as soon as some pieces fell, the substitutes didn’t take advantage of the opportunity, the only one who did, and very well, was Maxi Ribero. We couldn’t cover the rest of Raúl Ruiz’s passing last week without going any further. We had shortcomings that we couldn’t replace,” he reiterated, in the coach’s own words, leaving a direct mark on the defenders who failed to fulfill the role of Víctor Eimil and Roger Riera.
“I had a very clear eleven in mind, but when the losses came, the substitutes didn’t take the opportunity.”
“Before matches, I always put myself on the positive side, I don’t think about defeat. I think we will beat Formentera and stay one point behind them. If I focus on the negative again, I will leave the team where I found it when I came, and what I want is to step forward,” he said hastily after being diagnosed with the other team. answers
sincerity…
When Lolo Escobar first appeared before journalists, she explained the path she used with unexpected candor. “When I arrived, I had to come up here and invent something to talk about feelings in the locker room. I don’t have to now. The truth is, we all have to reset, forget what happened, and face a nine-game mini league where we have to be the best. That should get us to finish fifth. When I came, my aim was to avoid relegation at all costs and to get from there to the top of the playoffs, and we are in this battle,” he said. You are hurting your team.
“This finale is neither more nor less final than its predecessors, I hope we are up to the task this time…at least in the final outcome.”
“If the players didn’t pay attention to what’s going on around, what’s being said and written in the media, on the networks, if they didn’t look at the classification, which is what I’m doing at this point in my career. They would compete much better. “But it’s a utopia, they don’t have the maturity to do it, and everything they hear and see affects them,” he said.
Strategy at 11:30 on Sunday.
“This is a game against Formentera in fifth place where the goal score is lost (2-1) and it depends 100% on what we can do. “No matter what the opponent offers, if we don’t do our best, we will suffer,” he warns.
“We focused the week on this, correcting our mistakes, for example, we repeated the corner kick that cost us a goal in Santa Eulalia 30 times. We examined the opponent, who closed very well inside, so we have to hurt him from the outside, but I still don’t know if that means going out with two strikers from the start.