Quique: “Athletic has devilish speed”

Quique Sanchez Flores, Getafe coach, assured this Monday in a press conference that his next rival in LaLiga Santander, the athletic clubwas one of the fastest teams in the entire tournament thanks to “the speed of the devilof their players and their tactical movements.

The Getafe coach, who revealed that Munir El Haddadi has recovered from some physical discomfort and Mauro Arambarri will be doubt until the last momentadmitted he will face a “good team” who started strongly on the course.

“They play at a very high tempo, physically they are very strong footballers. With Valverde, the concept has changed a bit compared to Marcelino. To the point that a central midfielder plays as a midfielder at the same time as Sancet plays in defense as a midfielder, in attack he plays up front and in midfield with Muniain. They have theirs mechanisms, a light way to play and a devilish speed. This is possibly one of the fastest teams in the league,” he said.

Quique declared that at Getafe they “very positive“Because if you compare them to last season, where at this point in the course they were in the relegation positions and had very few points, now the azulón team is “much better”.

“We have a lot of points and we know each other better. It is true that we have to introduce eight-ten players and we have eight or ten left. We are in a process where we all get to know each other better. I hope it will gradually be noticed. We are just one win away from the middle of the table. Every match we plan to win. If we win, we will be in a good ranking place to aim for more things. We see every game as a challenge. All teams have weapons to hurt you,” he said.

Also, he pointed out that Getafe, at the moment, is in a period of “transfer” where the players and the coaching staff get to know each other better. In addition, he clarified that having almost the entire squad, about 23 players, almost all of them in good condition, is good news for in Getafe.

“They can compete with each other. That’s important. We have 23 who can fight for a position. Creating competition is important. Now we have to play like last year, when we can close it. We are capable of taking steps forward, pressing the opposition’s field, throwing defensive lines, rationing ourselves in the offensive game… That is a matter of a lot of work. It will appear. It doesn’t always come out at the volume we want, but we get to know each other little by little”

Asked by the players how many minutes he enjoyed, he said a lot ” they shouted” enter the lineups, but, he reasoned, “only eleven can enter the lineups”.

“The five entered they give us alternatives. There are players who were injured, who entered late and understand what Getafe means and what Getafe demands”, he commented.

Finally, he acknowledged that his team started the season conceding too many goals against in an “unexpected” way and explained that he and his coaching staff worked to figure out the net figures and gross of the previous campaign to compare.

“In what we believe is appropriate that can be improved, we try to improve. It is a matter of procedure, of team functioning and when that is increased, it can be performed. To be a solid team like last year, which defended forward, many meters close to the rival, Lots of work hours. After a long time, it came and we had to start practically from scratch,” he concluded.