The Dutch defender Manchester City, Nathan Aképraised this Monday, a day before facing the Copenhagen in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16, the mental strength of his teammate Erling Haaland to overcome adversity.
“He is very strong mentally”
“Haaland doesn’t let anything affect him. When he misses an opportunity, it doesn’t affect him, then he goes with the same confidence. He is mentally very strong, he showed it in the last two seasons,” he said. Ake at the pre-match press conference.
Its ex Bournemouth He does not consider that his team’s mentality has changed by winning all six games in the final group stage of the tournament. “Honestly, I don’t think it will change the way we see the competition. We have always been very focused and we want to win it,” he said. Ake.
Winning the tournament last season, after losing in the final the previous one, didn’t affect the team too much either: “Nothing changes, we’re both hungry, maybe only the experience of winning here changes,” continued the defender.
Ake28, described tomorrow’s rival as “tough” and, despite his theoretical inferiority, recalled that he qualified after competing in “one of the toughest groups”.
The inactivity of Copenhagen -he hasn’t been able to play an official match for two months due to the winter break of the Danish league- it doesn’t have to be a setback, and Ake He is convinced that both teams will be “one hundred percent” tomorrow.
Source: La Verdad
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