Sevilla’s Brazilian centre-back Marco Teixeira considered “perfect” to play against the Norwegian Erling Haaland in European Super Cupon August 16 in Athens, because the player of City of Manchester “He is the best number nine in the world and any footballer wants to face the best.”
“We’ll have a chance. We faced the best team in the world, but we work every day to be ready to play a great game. With humility, to be able to beat them,” said Marcao in statements to EFE.
About Haaland, the defender from Paraná pointed out that “there is no certain way to mark it, it depends on the game, on how it will happen that day, and it will not depend only on the defense”, but on “what the whole team will do. the work is smooth and strong.” . “Starting the season as champions will give a lot of confidence“, said.
In his first season at Sevilla, Marcao only participated in 11 official matches due to a series of injuriesbut now “the head is clear because ending up winning” the Europa League “relieves everyone” and “the holidays served to rest and do everything that needs to be done” to prepare physically.
Although the last league was complicated and “it is difficult to explain what happened”, the Sevilla center-back believes that his team “is at the level to fight the greatest”, as he showed “after the change of coach”, since he considered that the arrival of José Luis Mendilibar “is key”.
Marcao emphasized that the coach from Biscay “changed the mentality of the team” and imposed a style of “a lot of fight and a lot of desire”, in addition to influencing some details such as “he does not like the ball be too long behind”, something “for The defenders make things easier.”
Source: La Verdad
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