The future of Hercules follows concentric patterns that are repeated at all levels. Lack of results always plays against you, proper names pile up, overlap, become one, always the same. The imminence of failure, its stench, the roofs appearing just before us, transform anyone who bravely (accepting a cursed chair) enters the blue-white entity into an outdated collector of excuses, a seasoned enemy locator. the the usual suspectsthis serves to cover up the obvious: the team isn’t going away, getting so far away from being guided by his hand that it’s tense in an alarming way.

Lolo Escobar He believes everything works against him: the health of the players, the environment, the stands, the press… endless trouble It is in the fourth category of national football, leaving its rivals behind. For Extremadura’s coach, his team carries a suffocating weight that prevents him from comparing himself to other opponents playing unchained.

“I ask Míchel not to burn the ball like he did the other day and to make good decisions and give us the quality leap he brought from the set pieces”

“The wheel of casualties hasn’t stopped turning since I arrived. I have to eat my head to make eleven every week. In the end, only those who are eligible are interviewed. He is training with us this week. salahI’m not ignoring it to be on the number 18 list because I like it so much” Saladin Bendrao, He makes clear his little faith in his recovery. Jack Harper and contributed ander victoria.

“Forwards are measured by their numbers and ours is not encouraging. Top players are acting in series and who tells us they can’t stand it anymore? Alvarito, Jean Paul or Raúl, may appear here as well. But it’s true that we lack chicha at the top,” he assures without naming only two nines with a professional track record.

“Forwards are measured by their numbers and ours is not encouraging. We lack chicha at the top”

According to Lolo Escobar, one of the reasons explaining Hercules’ difficulties is, Álvaro Hernáiz’s setback: “Alvarito hasn’t been at his best for a few weeks, but I understand that he’s a young boy who has to play for minutes, and because he’s human, it’s going to cause physical and emotional setbacks. What are you supposed to do? bring it backall mine trust. When I traded him last week, I did it believing it was for the best for Hercules, I just don’t think about this or that player. The best Alvarito will come for the best moment of the season, my role to help you to avoid the traps set by competitors who already know their qualifications,” he emphasizes.

“Since I got here, the missing wheel hasn’t stopped turning. I have to go nuts to make eleven every week”

The situation with the player who gave him three points against Formentera was a little less poignant: “A Michel I want him not to burn the ball like he did the other day, but to make good decisions and give us the quality leap he brings to the set pieces. It’s great for a midfielder and I wish everyone else who had the same experience to face the rest would wear his tricks”, confirming that the Valencian continues to see him move closer to the center than to the striker.

Hercules returns to the artificial turf field on Sunday, a surface where they’ve won more games than ever before this year. “Surface I am not bothered. You play on a different day every 15 days. They are the rules of the game for everyone and I resigned. Artificial turf again this week, because we will try to play as well as we can,” he explains in a concise dose.

“No one doubts that it will take a long time for all of us and we will suffer a lot. But we must be optimistic. We will not know in which position we will finish until the last day.” above”

The goal remains to be to the ‘play-off’, although it remains. minimal success Underestimated at the start of the second season in the second RFEF. Escobar believes this is possible, but does not set a goal, It doesn’t matter if you’re fourth or fifth.. “This will be decided in the end. I’ve been saying it since I arrived, and everything shows that it will be so, so we have to keep believing. We have to be positive and always put ourselves in the best place.” However, no one doubts that we will play for a long time and suffer a lot. We won’t know in which position we will finish until the last day,” he predicts.

“I have my own personal taste, I know what I like to do with my team when I see them from the bench, but that has to be put in the background.”

This critics Extremadura coach does not prioritize the way he plays and the way the last two games (Ebro and Formentera) have been won. “Right now I don’t care what game my team is playing. It’s my personal taste, I know what I like to do when I see my team from the bench, but that has to be put in the background now. It is very difficult to play with pressure. in cities like Manresa They are living this final of the league calmly, they are happy with their season, they need to win every game by playing well and winning 5-0. I have to stay out of this. I have to focus on getting the points, and when we hit the target, it won’t matter how we achieve it,” stressed Escobar, convinced that there are as many viewpoints from the pitch as there are people who comment on his team.

“Cities like Manresa are living this final of the league calmly, they are happy with their season, you have to win every game here by playing well and winning 5-0. I have to stay out of this.”

“Many perspectives converge in football. The fans will want their team to play well and have a good image; the press will generally want no normality, it will always be better for the press to have wins and wins.” Losses in order to sell finals and failures, and managers will try to make his point of view economical… But the coach has to stay out of everything. There’s a lot of pressure here, it’s Hercules. The tension on the field could have been cut with a knife the other day, we all felt it. Despite this, the team had good times and defended very well. We lacked football, but we did what everyone does, we defended our rent with tooth and nail. Let Teruel, Mestalla, Espanyol B, Peña Deportiva do it… The important thing is your scores,” he insisted again.

“The tension on the pitch could have been cut with a knife the other day, we all felt it. Despite that, the team had a good day and defended very well.”

HE Lolo Escobar The way Hercules takes over on matchday 14 is different on the eve of matchday 27. The mutation is obvious, and he argues it himself: “I value leaving a clean slate more now than two months ago. The season has a phase where you have to play and a phase where you have to compete. We are now in second place. We will adapt to the demands of each game and be able to play in some better than others, we will have to win with a steady movement like last week”, he uses it as if it were predictable beyond chance. no team would ever lose.