Luis Enrique: “We are not going to change our idea at any time”

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He emphasizes that style is non-negotiable and admits that after the group stage there was “deep thought” about the selection.

Luis Enrique admits Spain “a remarkable high or a remarkable low” in the group stage, despite being 180 seconds out in their match against Japan as Costa Rica took the lead against Germany. The coach’s note stems from the belief that in the almost three hundred minutes of the World Cup played, when demand is at its maximum, there has been only one disconnection. However, that collapse will not change the way we understand La Roja football. He doesn’t have “the philosopher’s stone” as the rest of the teams wield their guns as well, but losing faith in the formula that got him here would mean shooting himself in the foot. “We are not going to change our idea at any time,” he proclaimed at the Doha Convention Center during his appearance to the media on the occasion of the round of 16 against Morocco.

In contrast to his three previous appearances before the press on the eve of the games, the Asturian coach was a bit more tense at the beginning when he was asked some questions that he considered “topical”, such as that the team is not following the goals of the Teutons and Asiatics. Nor did he seem to like it very much when they asked him, in connection with the clash with the Japanese, whether his footballers are forbidden to resort to hitting the ball when faced with compromising situations. “Any action is allowed, but it’s the player who has to make the decision on the field.” This reasoning, he qualified, does not contradict the fact that the national team must always remain true to its principles. “Apart from the result – he added – what obsesses me is that the team is implementing my idea. It is non-negotiable, for better or for worse.

Gijón’s coach admitted that after the setback against Japan, the coaching staff and the squad have shared “a deeper reflection” at the University of Qatar, Spain’s headquarters, on their virtues and, above all, on the aspects that are needed. to improve. A panic similar to that against the Asians would bring forward the return journey. Luis Enrique does not hide the fact that errors will occur during the game because they are inherent to the game, but he tries to minimize them so that their effects are reversible. At the Educational City Stadium, the Spanish fans – some 4,000 – will be in a clear minority with the Moroccans, who will also have “the whole Arab world behind them”, as Walid Regragui had previously emphasized. “Our fans are very loud and the more atmosphere there is in the field, the better. Let it be a football celebration and may the best win,” he emphasized in a more relaxed tone.

Almost everything can be trained, the physical, the tactical, the mental, the emotional. But these facets must be supported by the same doctrine to be effective. Leaving philosophy is almost always synonymous with failure, according to the selector’s criteria. Even penalty kicks, which usually return in tournaments, “are no longer a lottery either, it depends less and less on luck.” In this regard, he recalled that in one of the concentrations of Las Rozas, he already warned his players that they must perform this task, throw “at least a thousand” maximum penalties at their clubs’ facilities before landing in Doha. The only thing that cannot be managed is ‘the stress of the moment’. But he was convinced that La Roja will beat Morocco, “despite the fact that it will be the best team from a motivation point of view at the moment.”

Source: La Verdad

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