Athletic face the Anoeta derby against Real today (6 pm) in the best moment of the season, after four consecutive victories in League F. The goal is clear. “We got there very well, with the team advancing very quickly, faster than we expected, competing very well. We had a very demanding cycle with games that asked a lot of us and the team responded. Not only the eleven most common responses, but also the entire team. I will stand by that. We tried to oxygenate the team. “We are in the best possible moment,” he said yesterday. David Aznar.
Athletic is seventh in the table and Real is eighth. The victory will leave the Gipuzkoans with seven points: “We want to continue adding points. One of the goals is to get more points away from home. The first round was difficult for us, it took us a while to achieve the first victory away from home. In this one we were more consistent, we just won against a Levante team with a good team, who are aspiring for Champions League positions. Tomorrow there will be another demanding and good scenario.”
His team placed itself eight points away from the third place that allows to play the preview of the European competition. Can you dream of him in the remaining ten games? “Our goal has not changed, it is to try to finish in the best eight. We are an ambitious team, we do not leave anything aside, we will fight for everything that the mathematics allows us. We know that we are on the right track, there are ten games left, a lot of points to play for. To get there you have to maintain a regularity which is not easy. We want to go game by game, now the derby is going to demand a lot from us. This is a year of transition in a very young group. That is our goal this season,” said the coach.
Aznar He used different systems. He played both with four at the back and with five, as in the two Cup semi-final matches against Barça. “We are a chameleonic team and that gives us an advantage and the ability to compete against anyone. We are a difficult opponent to analyze because we have many variants, within the games we change the structures . I have very talented players, not only when they play with the ball but because of how intelligent they are to assimilate what I ask of them. I can’t be more than grateful. That gives us a lot of wealth. This is one of the big key.”
The Toledo coach pointed out what must be good in Anoeta to return to Bilbao with victory. “Make them feel uncomfortable first, like we did here. In the two home games we surprised them, they expected a less strong Athletic, here they didn’t know how to attack us. We are going to go for the game from the first minute, we are going to Reale with the intention of winning our third derby of the season,” he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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