Karanka took the reins of a team overwhelmed by nervousness and anxiety, something that he has been trying to alleviate since his arrival: “That’s hard, we have to see from tomorrow, it was all very fast, I signed on a Monday and on Wednesday I was at the Wanda. The atmosphere I found was one of anxiety, but with everyone wanting to help and push, the atmosphere remains the same and the feeling of the team after the Wanda has been strengthened and with that commitment we have to continue progressing”.
The atmosphere that I found was one of anxiety, but with everyone wanting to help
The coach from Vitoria has worked against the clock to try to iron out the team’s deficiencies: “I have worked on concepts that I give more importance to than previous coaches.we are in that change. Players have to start to understand my concepts without forgetting what they have been working on, it is not easy to change everything in ten days”.
The stadium is going to be a pressure cooker
Granada hasn’t won in Los Cármenes for four months and Karanka hopes that the fans will be one more player: “The stadium will be as usual, it will be a pressure cooker. People will be with the team, and they will understand that in ninety minutes many things can happengood moments and not so good ones, which is when we are going to need the support of the fans, and in those moments the team has to be together and compact”.
The players must temper their nerves and follow the line started against Atlético: “Nobody expected the situation the team is in, it’s normal to be anxious. Commitment was seen in the Wanda match, but the issue of organization is missing And if we make those mistakes against Celta, we’re going to have problems.”
Nobody expected the situation the team is in, it’s normal to be anxious
The Celtic will test the Karanka effect: “It is one of the teams that dominates all facets of the gamehas high-level players, has one of the best recoveries after losing the League and controls the issue of transitions, but we have to think about ourselves and their weaknesses in order to harm them. The problem is that they dominate all facets of the game.”
“It must be us”
To the obvious difficulties, we must add the long list of casualties that Karanka hasforced to pull the subsidiary: “Yes, they have been training with us, they have trained as part of the first team, for them it is an opportunity, someone is going to playI don’t know if one, two or all three, anyone can play and with that maturity they will face it as an opportunity”.
Putting aside the emotional component, the Basque coach has the recipe for the match: “It must be us, in phase with the ball demonstrate the quality we have and, without the ball, being close together and more orderly than the other day because otherwise we will have problems. You don’t have to give them options in transitions, you have to be together and organized.”
