Adrián: “The coach opted for the change and now I have to gain trust on the field”

One of the captains of the Betis squad as he is Adrian San Miguel has stopped on the way to training in this final stretch of January to talk about what truly matters today: the delicate situation in which the green and white team survives in the sporting section after the third and last consecutive defeat, the that they had last weekend against Alavés, which joins both the Copa del Rey victory at the hands of Barcelona and the narrow defeat at the hands of Valladolid in Pucela. He had to wait for his moment to put on the gloves as a starter, even though he already did it in Europe; but since the departure of Rui Silva and the substitution of Vieites that took place a matter of days ago, Adrián has become the starting goalkeeper of the Betic team and wanted to emphasize that now is the time to take a step forward, knowing the crisis that exists and from which those of Pellegrini intend to get out.

«We could be much better, in the end, as you have been saying, my objective was to help, contribute and demonstrate that experience within the locker room and on the field when given the opportunity. The coach has given me that opportunity in Europe and in the league,” reflected the Sevillian goalkeeper this Wednesday night in an interview in Canal Sur Radio. Adrián San Miguel showed his patience when waiting for his moment and trusted that his time in goal would be a mere matter of time, not without regretting the poor streak of results: “He played a couple of Cup games in Fran, but I knew I had to be prepared. The opportunity as a goalkeeper It doesn’t come to you when you want it, but when it’s your turn. The coach chose to make the goalkeeper change on Saturday and now I have to gain trust on the field,” the goalkeeper maintained in that same sense.

In another order of things, the Seville goalkeeper wanted to highlight the homegrown personality who have been pushing hard, as in the case of Jesús Rodríguez, whose leadership Adrián highlights despite his youth, and in cases like that of the Alcalar native, the goalkeeper tries to provide a dose of experience: «I have that experience of having been in England and several clubs, like Liverpool, a winning dressing room. I try to transmit it, that confidence to whoever wants,” said the Betic goalkeeper, who broke a spear in favor of the coexistence of the group, denying that there was a bad climate among other things because of some of his words at the end of the duel: “Not much less. I know what you mean after the Conference, which I still think was embarrassing in the sporting sense, since we have to bet much more. It is true that we have to face rivals that you don’t know, but I don’t think it hurt anyone in the locker room: it was the feeling of the group, call me that I have hot blood, but neither the players nor the staff looked at it that way. I think that at certain times we have to tell each other things clearly. “All of us who are here want the best for Betis and that was not the way,” he said.

In turn, Adrián recalled steps like those experienced in his previous stages in England, especially in a club like Liverpool, where he experienced good and bad moments like those he is now experiencing in Heliópolis. «It is a big club but a fighter, always based on work. When he won a Champions League, he had just lost another. This growth process also has moments of decline. Jurgen (Klopp) He always said it: we cannot live in the past, we have to live in the present and at that moment we also found ourselves at Betis. Looking in perspective, as a Betic who has been away for eleven years, it has grown enormously and has stabilized in Europe, but you cannot always live from the past,” he said. “The team is not performing at the level we expect, but we have to trust the group, worse situations have been overcome,” he said.