He considers that the team has enough weapons “because we have already demonstrated it.” Each player will be accompanied by a family member on the journey to the final
Mikel Balenziaga and Dani García have been the players chosen by Athletic to give voice to the dressing room in the preview of the final with Barcelona. The full-back, although Marcelino has also used him as an emergency center-back, did not have minutes in the final against Real Sociedad but he was on the field in the Super Cup duel with Barcelona last January. “We are very confident in bringing the Cup home to us. The team is working well and is in good spirits. After losing to the Real, we had hard days, but we had to regain the joy of the dressing room and move forward. The team has taken an important step in that because the dressing room is whole and with great force“, he said before starting training this Wednesday in Lezama.
The southpaw stressed that “We know what we have to do to be able to take the game where we want to take it to be able to win it. The best example is the match we won against Barcelona in the Super Cup. We will do everything possible and we will do our best to repeat that. “Balenziaga insisted that” I always see the positive and I prefer to hold on to what I have done well. We are able to do it and we have shown it. “
The rojilblanco stressed that “winning a Copa del Rey is the best what we can aspire to as an Athletic player for all that it entails. With effort and work we will try to move forward. “After having recently lost the 2020 final with Real Sociedad Balenziaga, he said that pressure does not mark the game” because we are well and we know what to do. We have enough weapons for the trophy to come to Bilbao. We will have to do many things well and make little mistakes. Our staging must be 10 and in intensity be above them. We have to be daring. “
In this Cup final Athletic has changed the travel plan and in the delegation it has changed members who were in the duel with Real Sociedad for relatives of the players (one for each footballer). The proposal was cooked in the hotel in Seville. “What we would have wanted is that all the Athletic fans could be in La Cartuja, which would be the best way to start the final. In the previous final we went without any family member and there they told us that for this one we could bring a family member per player After thinking about it, discuss it, decided that it should be so. Each player will have a family member, but we would have liked the entire Athletic fans to be there“, he pointed.
