The Almería coach, Joan Francesc Ferrer ‘Rubi’, said on Thursday that his team will face the home game against Espanyol this Friday with the conviction that they will have to “compete well to win”, and predicted that they will “suffer ” and that they will have to “fight a lot”, because the rival comes “with an unusual dynamic of results”.
“Away from home they have already tied Atlético and Barça, and won at San Mamés,” Rubi highlighted this Thursday in a press conference, also admitting that for him “playing against the entity” where he is “it’s been more years”, not counting the club from his hometown, Vilasar de Mar (Barcelona), where he wishes him “the best after this game”.
The rojiblanco coach emphasized that his team will come to the clash with two days less rest than Espanyol, since Almería played on Monday at Mestalla (2-2) and the parakeets did so on Saturday, although ‘t he admits his players don’t have “too much.” problems” and is in good condition, “getting rid of one that started the other day”, although he did not reveal his name.
“We are proud of how we compete. Mistakes are always made, but there are also successes and I don’t need to announce them either,” said the Catalan, stressing that Espanyol have goalscorer Joselu Mato, who “we’re having an extraordinary time and we have to tie it well or it’s going to take us”, although there’s more to it.
Thus, he mentioned the “undeniable quality of Darder or the good work of Puado and Braithwite”, and pointed out that his coach, Diego Martínez, made “the most important success in the last five years in Spain with Granada” and “the gene that sends” his coaching staff “is that, no matter what happens in the game, the team fights for 90 minutes; it does not kneel or give up”.
Rubi did not give hints about the possible changes in the eleven, but he identified some valid names, in questions from informants, and pointed out that the middle Chumi started as “the last in line in his position and, with his work and effort , proved to be a good player in the Second Division and consolidates in the First Division”, in addition to highlighting the work of the Portuguese Samú Costa and also César de la Hoz in the recovery , “on pressure after loss” .
Source: La Verdad
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