Toni Villa: “No rival has been superior to us”

Toni Villa, youth squad and Real Valladolid player, is in a great moment, scoring goals, giving assists and being important in the blanquivioleta team. The Lorquí player explained today at a press conference that “Maybe it’s my best season, but because I’m making numbers that support the way I play” and about the causes of this performance, he pointed out that “the team has a lot of offensive power, we reach the rival area much more than other seasons and that is noticeable in any offensive player. I play a little more in the area, I dare to shoot more, with situations more clear”.

Regarding the fight for promotion, Toni believes that “it’s a bit exasperating to see how all the rivals win, but we already know how it is, it’s going to be like this until the end of the season. I think no rival has been better than us. If we play our game and take advantage of our opportunities, we are closer to victory and, furthermore, we only think about the next game, in this case Amorebieta” and he used irony to respond to what they lack to be among the first two: ” Four points” to then add that “I think we deserve it for the game, but in football many times the way of playing is not rewarded, but doing what we do we are much closer to victory” repeating with blind faith a mantra from his coach, Pacheta. Subsequently, the pucelano attacker pointed to the “Tenerife” as a very powerful rival among the first because “I see it very well worked. They know very well what they play. It doesn’t depend on as many players as the other teams and it’s a very complicated team.”

When assessing the reason why the team suffers again in defense and conceding goals after going 646 minutes without conceding one, the attacker stated that “We would have to look at the previous rivals as well, but it is true that in the last two days we have had rivals with a lot of offensive power. Girona, one of the best offensive teams in the category and Cartagena, with the players they have, and at home. It is difficult to spend so many minutes without conceding and it would be important to return to those numbers because they are the ones that will lead us to victory”.

Toni sees the team physically well, although he estimates that “it doesn’t matter as much as the mood. The team is well, eager, with a lot of intensity, from minute 1 with a lot of rhythm, all the rivals tell us that we are the ones who put the most rhythm into the ball and the others suffer from minute 1, although we are winning a lot of games in the final minutes, so the team is fine” and regarding his goal 15 seconds into the game in Cartagonova, the player stated that “I’m sure I’ll have scored goals in the first few minutes, but I don’t think as soon. In the second 15, in the first ball you touch, you never expect to score a goal. When I saw that they tied us in minute 3 I thought we were going to end up tied at 22… In the end it was a hectic start and what can’t happen is that they tie us as soon as we score”.

About the match against amorebieta Sunday, Toni does not believe that there is a spirit of revenge: “We want to win the game, although we have to admit that this defeat was very painful, because of how it was, because of the situation, because of the day. I think it made us wake up, since that game we haven’t had a defeat like that. I have nothing against Amorebieta, I just want to win the three points.” and about the game he is expecting, he stated: “They have already played on big pitches and have shown their faces. They were winning at El Molinón in the 80th minute. They know very well what they are doing, they know what they are playing and they are going to try to squeeze the maximum”.