“If they did it in the first leg, why not us in the return?” This is the emphatic response of Take Kubo when asked if Real think they are capable of reversing the result of the first leg against Roma (2-0) in the round of 16 of the Europa League.
The Japanese have the intuition that he may be facing an appointment for the history books and for the memory of the txuri urdin family: “I, beyond belief, want to be part of Real history, make history and return at a 2-0,” he said. His wish is that this tie “will be remembered for 10 years”. For ’14 txuri urdin, Thursday was “the most important game of the season and in many years.” His intention is made clear: “I want to be part of the team that beat Rome, come back and go to the quarterfinals.”
want to mark
Kubo wants to win, wants to qualify and “if I can be with him, even better.” He understands that Real signed him last summer for this: “I have to do it, I have to take responsibility as a player. I’m in good shape. The team is in good shape and I have to show for all the people that I trust myself, even part of the fans He has doubts about me, it’s logical.” Very few doubt Kawasaki anymore.
And that he will be a spearhead starter, because he is the element with the most overflow of the team almost throughout the season: “I will try to create danger, contribute, I will not give up in a duel for the loser. If I can stand out , better. They will suit me at these big parties,” he said.
hut think how illarra, which, despite bringing a bad result, the first leg was not too bad: “Analyzing it, we have ours, but we got it right,” he sums up. For all these reasons, he considers that “if we play better than the first leg, we have a better chance to come back.”
Zubieta goals
For this, Real will have to be on target facing the goal, something that has not been achieved this late in the season. But the Japanese breathed a sigh of relief: “Today we made some shots and almost everything went in, so we will go with hope.” And then there is the part of the thirst for revenge for the result against: “These games are double games, the one who starts to lose goes into the second with anger. We cannot make mistakes. It is one thing to be aggressive and another, too much . But we can’t miss being aggressive,” he says.
hut He also spoke about the coach’s controversial statements after the Rome disappointment, where he said that “these games are good for Real”. Real’s ’14’ acknowledges that “imanol He was angry, of course, and after the Mallorca game he told us that we had to start thinking about coming back on Thursday and we were psyched”.
The Japan international admitted that he does not know if they are ready to win this type of match or not, but he remembers that “if we are here, it is because we did not win them ourselves. We deserve this game and the victory and the fans, too.”
throw more at the door
Regarding the strategy to turn the 2-0 in Anoeta, he maintains that “the ideal is to score three goals in the first 15 minutes”, even without obsessions. He expects “all of us in the first 10 minutes” and “we have to shoot a lot of goals, more than we have done in these games”. Bet on “going on the attack” without too much consideration because “we have nothing to lose” and although they are “good on the counter and have tall, strong men for set pieces”.
Source: La Verdad
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