Gasset revealed his strategy to prevent Villarreal’s comeback

Olympique Marseille coach Jean Louis Gasset He said on Wednesday that Villarreal, who they face on Thursday at La Cerámica in the second leg of the Europa League round of 16, must play a “perfect game” to try to overturn the tie disadvantage, although he warned that your the team knows how to respond.

“The job of a coach means that you always have to think about any scene that can happen in a game. We played a good game in the first leg and Villarreal will try to do the same here. We expect an intense match, with a lot of pressure, a lot of direct play and playing with their forwards but we know we have to respond to that,” Gasset told the media.

The French coach taught that they must win the duels, and from there play their football. “We know they’re going to find us and that’s going to create spaces behind them, that’s the strategy we have,” he added.

“The first leg against Villarreal was our best game since I arrived“We had a good first half and we want to do something similar, but to do it requires a lot of physical effort like we did, but I think we are good to deal with the second half of the tie, ” he indicated.

Gasset assured that in last weekend’s match against Nantes in the French league they accused this need of the European match last Thursday, because they have “a reduced group of players due to injuries”, although he hopes to be fit this Thursday after the last two efforts.

He announced that they would be playing with the “newest” footballers because they have some players injured after the effort made in the last game and it will take until the last minute to see “which players are fit”.

“I think the most important thing is the start of the game. Villarreal has no margin for error. They have to play a perfect game and we have to play our worst game to get it back. We will not have the same mentality as the first leg, we will not go up, because it is dangerous for us, but we will try to recover the ball and use the spaces they leave,” said the Olympique coach.

“They have an idea in their head of how this game is going to go, but we have to have an answer to that idea. The key is to hurt them in the beginning, that they notice that we can hurt them,” he added in this regard.

Regarding your team’s fans who have traveled and the security measures adopted, Gasset comments that football is “a party” and that they are happy that they are here with them to support them, “but tomorrow we hope it will be a party with everyone, whether yellow or blue – in reference to the colors of both teams,” he concluded.