Villarreal centre-back Jorge Cuencawas happy with the victory achieved this Thursday by 4-2 against Hajduk Split, in the first leg of the preliminary phase of the Conference League, but stressed that in the second leg next week in Croatia “it is time to fight” classification .
“We cannot relax because they scored two goals against us. With their people they will go for everything. In the second leg it’s time to fight for it”, said Cuenca in the press conference after the match.
The Villarreal footballer admitted that the first goal of the Croatian team surprised them and the final result did not allow them to rest.
“It was a very early goal that we didn’t expect, but we composed ourselves and at the break we talked about kill them and make more goalsbut it could’t have been”, added the Villarreal defender after the game.
“The more goals, the better. We wanted a wider result and we will have to fight for it on the return leg,” he added.
In addition, Cuenca indicated that it was “unaffiliated” on the information about his departure from Villarreal – there was speculation about his possible arrival at Getafe -, and made sure that he was only focused on training with Unai Emery’s team.
Source: La Verdad
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