García Pimienta: “What I want is to win and I don’t care exactly how”

After defeating Espanyol last Friday and before making his debut in the Copa del Rey with Sevilla, Garcia Pimienta This Monday he gave an interview to South Channel through which he reviewed the current events of the team he leads.

The victory against Espanyol could have shown the keys to García Pimienta’s plan, who, regarding this, pointed out the following: «We are still in a process. We’ve been here for three months, new people, new ideas, with a medium-long term project… The other day a team was seen compensated in quotes. In the play of the first goal you say what a great goal and you see the initial play in which we came from behind. When we have to go long, we go long. What we never have to give up is competing. I see Idumbo, Lukebakio, and Isaac in solidarity… We are not going to give up anything. I tell them that they have to play all the balls, but we are never going to make a player feel pressured to play a ball when it is not their turn.».

The coach assured that beyond his ideas, “What I want is to win”. “I don’t care exactly how”he added. «We are in a different club than Las Palmas and the one who has to adapt is me.. I see raw material. No one’s rings fall off if you hit a ball high above, but it has to be the right hit, that makes sense. The players are also adapting and feel comfortable,” he further indicated.

Although the team has added ten of the last fifteen possible points, the coach assured that gives a “fair” grade to the team. «We are in the process of growth. I see room for improvement and at the end of the season we have to be much better than we are now», indicated the coach who wanted to avoid setting the goal of achieving qualification for European competition as Gudelj also did yesterday in South Channel. «What we are not going to do is give up anything. We have to be ambitious. Predicting that we are going to stay in Europe or fight to avoid relegation… I refuse. Now we have many injured players, which is not an excuse but a condition. At the end of the season we have to be better,” he reiterated.

The Sevilla coach also showed enthusiasm in the Cup, who also dated in Nyland’s recovery process is four or five weeksin one or two those of Badé and Nianzou and Lokonga was ruled out due to overload for the duel against Las Rozas. He praised the midfielder’s “ability to give judgment” and classified him as an “incredible” footballer. Furthermore, with respect to Lukebakio he left the following interesting reflection: «The player has to perform at the highest level. And yours is perhaps not the same as that of another colleague who may not arrive. We faced him many years ago (when he was a youth player at Anderlecht) and I knew the potential he had. Last year it was already differential and At the beginning of the season I had a talk with him and I told him that I couldn’t tiptoe. He accepted the challenge, he felt important. He has earned it. The footballer wants you not to cheat on him. If you tell him what you expect from him he will buy it from you, he wants you to help him. He almost didn’t score more goals. When you go ahead and show the player the possible solutions and help him, the player buys it from you quickly because what he wants is to learn.

However, the coach had no qualms about pedit a winger for the winter transfer market: «I think we have the winger position poorly covered in terms of numbers. Ocampos left us and we didn’t count on it. Now with Ejuke’s injury and the departure of Navas we do not have specific players. We have to look and have someone come to improve us. Anything that involves improving the squad we have to be open to it. We are in Sevilla, people are going to want to play in Sevilla, opportunities are going to arise. If that happens, we have to be open to it.”

With respect to Ansu Fatipublicly promised not to have spoken with the sports management about the possibility of incorporating him, although he did acknowledge that he urged the footballer to seek playing time at Barça or somewhere else. Furthermore, he was open to giving space to the reserve team players, although with nuances: “What we are not going to do is put responsibility on the reserve team’s players. They have to fall under their own weight. We are not going to upload players to get the medal».