After the deed against Leverkusen, Atlético de Madrid has to return to the League and he does it this Saturday against Villarreal (16.15, Movistar+). Among his ranks, a player who feels a footballer again as Denis Suárez (Salceda de … Caselas, Pontevedra, 1994). After six months without playing in Vigo for the conflict with its president, an unbridious assignment in Espanyol and a return to the yellow set marked by injuries, the Galician recovers the illusion and ambition.
“How do the Metropolitan party face?”
—We have in a very good moment after the game we played the other day against Mallorca (4-0). We do not fit, that is important for us, because if we do not fit we have a lot of offensive potential and we usually be a team that does not finish the games with zero goals. We know that Atlético de Madrid also arrives at a good time after having traced at home against Leverkusen. If it is true that they arrive from losing in the League against the Leganés to cut the streak of fifteen games in a row winning. Everything indicates that it will be a great game and we can have options to get a good result. We go there with the intention of adding three points so that not so that Athletic, especially, does not escape, that is six points.
“In that fight for the League, what do you see that Improves Atlético to Real Madrid and Barcelona?”
“They are three different teams.” Atlético de Madrid has a squad depth that perhaps had no other years. It has been reinforced very well. He has signed very good players, especially a footballer who marks differences, such as Julian, as he saw the other day. They have also signed our top scorer last year, Sorloth, who gives them another variant, unblocks the games when they have them complicated. For example, he was missing before the Leganés. Regarding the differences they have with Barça and Madrid, they have another style of play. It is a team that fits very few goals and that with all the offensive potential they have above, always generates three or four clear occasions per game. Shortly to leave the goal to zero, they will add three as they have done so far, except the Leganés game.
“Are you happy to enter Europe or the goal is the Champions League?”
—They only a competition from here at the end of the season and with the entire template recovered or practically all recovered as it is now, our goal is to look at the room. We want to be in Champions next year and enter the Champions League goes through the first four. Right now, both Athletic and Barcelona are six points and our goal is to be there. Also, when I see the Champions during the week, I want Spanish teams to win. Last year Germany and Italy put five teams in Champions and if we add the coefficients of Spanish teams, the fifth will also get to Spanish football. But today only four enter and our goal is to be among those four.
“What point is an advantage to be eliminated from Cup, not play Europe and have a game a week?”
“The advantage is that you play a game a week.” Atlético de Madrid, for example, comes from playing a very demanding game against Leverkusen and will arrive with less rest. The Athletic, which is our rival for the square, is still in Europa League, which is a competition that wears a lot because you play on Thursdays, they are long trips, you arrive home late, you have practically no time of recovery and you already have a game of League. It is a competition that demands a lot and, if you do not have the entire template, it is complicated. We do not have that now, we have no game during the week, we can better prepare the games and we cannot fail.
—What is Marcelino’s importance in the project and in his career?
—Marcelino for the Villarreal project is key. Since it arrived last year, the dynamics that the team had. If we only count the games that were in charge of the team, I do not know if we would be rooms or fifths, that is, in numbers according to what we aspire. On a personal level, in my first stage it was very important and in this second stage it is being. I have had a very long duration injury than I have returned after a long time and I am giving me the confidence and peace of mind that you count on me. He knows me, I know his way of playing and demanding in training and little by little I am recovering the continuity I needed. In the last four league games, in three I have started and in the other I have entered from the bench. On a personal level, every time I find myself better and I am happy to be here and that he is obviously.
“In what point of your career is mentally, physically and sports?”
—The physical level I am recovering my best sensations after a long time without participating and without playing for injuries. I am trying, above all, adapt better, with more work every day, not only what is training, but before and after. On a mental level I have passed complicated situations that have demanded peace of mind and calm to understand that, given things that you cannot control, it is not necessary to harm oneself going around. I have much more peace of mind playing, I’ve always been a very quiet boy, but hey, you already know the game more. Also, being a year without playing has served me to see more football, to get to know football better from outside and not from within, that from the stands it looks much better. Now I have this season and another one, I don’t know what will happen in the future, but my goal is to play as much as possible, recover the competition rhythm and good good feelings as I am doing.
“How do you not sink into a year, while thirty has been overcome?”
– It is true that we have had cases of long injuries here, then we support each other. But do not sink, obviously, always thinking about taking it with enthusiasm to return. Football is something that I like and say it is my passion. Then I really like to see football, be in the day to day and during this time I have worked to return and try to make my best, knowing that after a long process it is not easy. But the objective is being fulfilled. The coaching staff and I had marked deadlines, especially after the injury, which would not have relapses, be three consecutive months training, competing, to reach the last phase of the season, which is from February, to the maximum of my conditions.
“Why do you think you have not finished settling for years in any of the sites where you have been?”
“I have been in Barcelona for three years.” I was a very young boy, I agreed in my stage with the best player in the world in that position, which was Iniesta, and obviously it was not easy to play if he was. Then I looked for my continuity in Vigo. In the years I was I had confidence and continuity. Then I had to go out for a personal theme that is already known and now I am here, in Villarreal, prior to Espanyol. I came with the confidence of strengthening me, of being here many years. The first season could not be given because in the fifth game I had the injury. Now it is soon to talk about the future, but I still have this season and another. I am very comfortable and very happy in Villarreal. They treat me very well, I have a lot of confidence with all the people who work in the club and who knows if I can be here for many years.
“What point did you harm you everything that happened at the end of your stage in Celta?”
“To harm me because I spent six months without playing for a decision of the club’s owner.” I spent six months without playing and then I went to Espanyol. When it began to take pace and be fine, that it was the last seven or eight games, because the season is over. Obviously he harmed me because he came six months without competing. It seems that it is nothing, but today it shows a lot.
—Now collaborates with the club through your foundation. Was Mouriño’s departure from the presidency important?
—We have collaborated again because there is harmony in the two parties. I consider Celta my house, it is my club. It is the club that I have always been since childhood. It has been since, with the new president [Marián Mouriño]we wanted to resume by the two parties the collaboration we had at the time and, nothing, overraged and I hope it lasts many years.
“What is missing your career to be satisfied?”
“Now I’m in Villarreal I would like to play the Champions League next year and try to win a title, such as the Copa del Rey.” The last two seasons did not play a good role in the cup and next year we will have another opportunity to remedy it and, why not, go for a title. Villarreal already knows what it is to win a title, the Europa League. I hope we can win another title and that I am here.
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