Jose Bordalás has been very sincere to analyze the bad streak of Valencia – that carries 7 matches without winning – and who faces this Saturday Villarreal. The Alicante coach has explained that what is being seen from Valencia does not coincide with his idea of team or game and that he has to change habits in some players. In addition, the Valencia coach talks about objectives. “If we stick to latest results, we cannot aspire to Europe “.
Does the losing streak do the squad justice?
Right now is not a time to value that. We are in a bad moment of results and now we are only focused on what is going to be tomorrow’s game. We do not have time to lament or to analyze all that. It is a vitally important birth.
Need for a defensive midfielder
We are not thinking about that. We are thinking of recovering the many that we have lost due to injury. They have improved a lot and we look forward to having them.
Private talks with players
There is very little time to prepare for the game, but we have talked and analyzed at a collective and individual level to try to correct things that have weighed us down, especially in the number of goals we have conceded with ease. I agree with Gayá. And so I have reflected it with the staff. They are aware that you have to improve and you have to be more reliable defensively.
I don’t feel alone, I’m team-focused
Do you feel lonely?
I do not feel alone, I am focused on the team, I am focused on my work as a coach and in other aspects I cannot enter to assess. We have to change the losing streak of results. but many of the mistakes made and we know them have been due to lack of attention, details or individual mistakes that we can’t keep making. Tomorrow the team will give another image very different from what it was last weekend.
State of Maxi Gómez
It goes much better, it is a muscle injury of a not very high level. Tomorrow we will see if we can decide to have him at Villarreal.
Are the injuries the ones that have caused the losing streak?
We have been unlucky with numerous injuries and players who have been doing very well, important players. and obviously we have accused him. Yes, the injuries have affected us, but it is not time to lament, the game is Villarreal. The injured have improved a lot, and we will see if we can take risks with them so that they cannot resent them.
We have to improve the pressure, we do it late, unbalanced and unbalanced
They do not do well the pressure in the game
I am not satisfied because it has not given good results, it is an aspect that we have to improve, we have done it late and unbalanced and unbalanced.
What do you expect from Mestalla
This is the most competitive league, where there can be fewer differences and no matter what the rival, it is difficult to get the games ahead. You face a team in the lower zone and you think it will be a simple game and, as it happened against Mallorca, we had to rescue a point in the last moments. We have to give our best version. We have to recover being a reliable, solid team.
Do you want to avoid conflict with the staff when you say that the responsibility is yours alone?
There is no type of conflict and the responsibility is mine and I try to prepare the games to the maximum. Players cannot be blamed. We have been unlucky with injuries.
Paulista is an example, a leader. It is almost impossible that he is not with us against Villarreal
Attitude of Paulista after being admitted to Seville
We know him well, he is an example. He is a great professional who gave us a major scare. He has recovered, we have taken the necessary precautions and he is fine. It is almost impossible that he will not be with us tomorrow against Villarreal. He is an example, a leader and good news for the team for me and for everyone.
Villarreal analysis
It is a team that plays Champions that has a very important potential, with a great squad, with great alternatives, change players and their performance does not suffer. We play at home and it is a very important game we must get our best version, it is a great team and we have to play a great game.
Villarreal has a great squad, with great alternatives, they change players and their performance does not suffer
Valencia identity crisis?
I agree. Nobody wants to see the Valencia, and I am not the first as a coach. My teams have to be much more reliable. I am not happy, we have been very vulnerable and very fragile. We must correct this imminently, to recover the image of a team, reliable, strong and competitive.
Double side
It’s a posibility. Everything is overshadowed, especially the work of Jesús Vázquez, by the final result. It was not an easy game, with the field full, but I am happy with the boy, he had a chance with zero to zero. But the responsibility cannot lie with such a young boy. It could help us in the immediate future.
My teams have to be much more reliable. I am not happy, we have been very vulnerable and very fragile
Squad potential
We can not complain. We have had many injuries and that has weakened us. I am not thinking about that, I am thinking about the team that is going to jump tomorrow, which I am sure is going to be a competitive eleven and that it will have many options to take the game forward.
Do you have the players to play with your style?
Much is said about the style of the technicians. The Bordalás style is that of current, modern football, to which we have to adapt, if we are not lost. Today high competitiveness, football is more physical and tactical every day there is a brutal competitiveness. I had the ability to forecast and see what was going to happen right now and we got ahead of ourselves. We have certain players, with certain habits and we have to modify those habits because if not, we are not going to adapt to modern football, not to the Bordalás style.
Doubts in the players.
There has been little time after the game against Betis. We have a new challenge. We have a new opportunity against Villarreal. There is no room for regrets or to think about what happened and yes to think about tomorrow’s game. The players know that we have a great responsibility, we are indebted to our fans, who deserve that the team leave their skin on the field and I am convinced that this is going to be the case.
Relegation numbers and target Europe
If we stick to the last seven results, obviously we cannot aspire to Europe because the numbers are not good, but this is very long. But our obligation as professionals is to give everything. We have to work.
If we stick to the latest results obviously we cannot aspire to Europe
Habits to modify
That they adapt to the demand of current football, running to spaces, adapting to actions, duels, divided balls, second plays, more mobility, stronger and more forceful and hence the difficulties to take the games forward regardless of the level of the game. team. Many times the player wants everything at the foot, many times it is not possible to play from behind. Against Mallorca, there were actions that we gave 20 passes in our own field and we did not cross, that facilitates the pressure of the rival.
More secure in your position
I’ve never thought about it. I’m a professional and I never really think about that possibility. I am a very confident person and coach of what I do, of my work, it is not something that I have ever worried about.
