Rafa Alkorta he is an old football wolf. He knows how to fight with thorny aspects such as the controversy unleashed in the semifinal tie between Athletic and Valencia. “Each one sweeps for his house. When we have been in football for so many years, the statements are well studied by all sides. Everyone plays with the weapons they want, but there is a referee, Gil Manzano, and he has to apply the rules. There is too much talk about some things that we have to abstract from, we have to play as the coach wants, because that way we are a very strong team”, maintains the sports director of the Bilbao team without wanting to set the second leg on fire.
Alkorta highlights the trajectory of the rojiblanco team, which has won 15 knockout ties in a row and is looking for the third Cup final in a row, the fifth in two years between the KO tournament and the Super Cup: “Sometimes we forget what this team is doing and the merit of not only being able to reach another final but reaching a semi-final”.
An important aspect that floats in this intersection is the time that is lost and the theater of Some players. Valencia leads the classification of games with fewer minutes played. “The referees are deceived a lot and that is why so much time is lost. You have to pretend less. Players who seem to have been killed, pass the ball to the side and run away. There are teams that use these tricks more. The people of the Federation and LaLiga will have to meet so that this happens less. Several teams come out to me, that does not mean that one of my players does it too, I am not safeguarding anyone, but there are very obvious teams that do not even need to be named”. Here he has left a nebula as to whether he was referring to Valencia, but it seems obvious .
The former central defender considers that Bordalás has good players to put up three central defenders or use a 4-3-3. “It’s going to be a very physical and duel-winning team. He is very strong, with a great coach. It seems to me one of the best in kilometers at high intensity, it is designed to be at the top“, deepens. Another of the points of friction is that a semifinalist has played in the League on Saturday and the other, Athletic, on Sunday: “The fault lies with other people who have decided that we have fewer hours of rest.” Finally , does not admit an iota of concern: “I’m not nervous because I see them well despite the result the other day at the Camp Nou. If the team has Marce’s style, he leaves us alone.”
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