Diego Pablo Simeon appeared at the press conference prior to the crash against the Real society round of 16 of the Copa del Rey that his team will have to play tomorrow at 9:00 p.m. at the Reale Arena. The Argentine coach will not be able to count on the injured Llorente, Kondogbia and Griezmann.
Importance of the Cup: “Since we started at the club we thought of playing each game as a final and generating that stimulus”
Louis Suarez: “With Luis we talked two months ago at least about what I think of him, how important he is for us and the situations that are generated with him and without him on the field. What I think of him, he knows and I didn’t talk about it after Sevilla, I talked about it two months ago”
Repeat Porto: “I’m going to tell you what I see. I can’t claim anything else from the team than what they do. I’m the one who generates the search for what they do. When the result is bad, you see the negative, but I can’t claim anything more to the team because the team responds well, they work, they are enthusiastic, they want to prove it… You have to be calm, patient and wait for the team to show up, because it will show up and hopefully it will be tomorrow”
Pressure and nerves: “We always had responsibility more than pressure. Last season, back in March, everyone thought that we were not going to be champions and the team had the rebellion, the strength to sustain the moment of difficulty when they cut points from us and we found that we were not going to come out champion seemed like a failure and became champion. The previous year, with the pandemic, a similar situation happened to us in which we were very far from the Champions League and the team reacted well and responded again. I believe in the team, I believe in the footballers, I know the capacity of people that I have in the group and I have no doubt that they will respond well”
It is difficult for him to get up from the blows: “If we look at the last two games, Athletic’s goal was in the 80th minute and we didn’t have time to react in those 6-7 minutes. In Villarreal, when they scored the second for us, those were the team’s best moments. The team responded very well to the blow what we receive”
Involvement of the footballers: “That they get involved in the characteristics of the game that we ask for. The involvement, Ancelotti explained it very well in the first dates that the players did not have that involvement and then they found it. You can play with many players who play well if there is that involvement in the match”
