Ferran Costa: “We have to be emotionally complete”

With six games remaining, Andorra will open matchday 37 of this competition that many have called the “hypertension league” with the pressure of achieving a victory that could see them out of relegation before their rivals know the result. They will do so against Racing de Santander (Friday, 8:30 pm) in a rivalry that focuses on all of Costa’s interests: “We are always the first to open the day. Our day is our game. It is on

that we can have a direct impact and where our attention should be,” said the tricolor coach in the preview, avoiding other adjustments that he may leave this weekend.

“We cannot influence what third parties do. We don’t want to do it either. We want to be the one to achieve it, on our own merits within the game and avoiding actions that will take us away from the goal, to win tomorrow’s game,” Costa explained, continuing to emphasize the importance that the team must have in this fight for staying. “Our focus is 100% on ourselves because we can’t do anything else. I see the team with a very good level of daily work, eager for people to see what they have sent and that they are clear on what they have to do.

Costa gave great importance to the fact that four of the six remaining matches will be played at the Estadi Nacional, with all that it entails for the club and the fans: “Playing at home is a very important plus. It is if where we work every day, with our people to whom we give our all every day,” the coach highlights about a partnership that “strengthens our feeling and encourages us for what is in our hands.” You know not

It will be easy, but “it is important that we understand that there will be moments of difficulty. The situation is very demanding and it implies being very stable, being clear about how we want our loved ones to feel about us.”

Career, third highest scoring team

Ahead will be one of the best teams in the category, a Race that comes to the Principality after three consecutive games without winning, despite being one of the candidates for promotion and the highest scorer -55 goals -, with the players who had a great impact in the category: “They have a great ability to travel the field with very few passes and be good at finishing. They create danger in the offensive process. Yes

You don’t attack well, when you lose the ball you suffer. “They do a lot of things well,” Costa summarized without delving too much into individualities.

Andorra wants to improve the image it showed in the last home defeat against Eibar, a rivalry in which Costa admitted he was not happy. That is why he asks for concentration during the ninety minutes: “When the game does not give you what you want or you are not where you want, we have to be good within the competition so that it allows us to continue competing. “We will have to be whole emotionally,” he said.

claimed the tricolor coach.

This week it was also known that Gerard Piqué, who was present at the Stage Front Stadium, went down to the locker room to encourage the team for this final phase. Asked about his relationship with the largest shareholder, Costa assures that everything is together: “We know that

We represent a country, its people, and our fans are the great engine to give it our all. With Gerard, we go along this line: when you see a team doing things well, this belief and energy increases. From the second zero that ended the game against Espanyol, we were already thinking about reunion with our people here,” he confessed.

The race came to the Principality on Wednesday “to get used to the Pyrenean temperatures” with the desire to “show our best version and the hunger we need to win” against a “very well worked” team like Andorra. Everything indicates that the

The Cantabrians’ coach, José Alberto, will withdraw most of his players – Andrés Martín, Sainz-Maza and Mantilla – except for substitute goalkeeper Parera. “If they are on call it is because they can participate,” he said yesterday at a press conference.

Pablo Moreno, out for the rest of the season

Andorra will also have some casualties in the attack. To the doubt of Álex Calvo, who continues to recover from an ankle injury that did not allow him to train with the team, the absence of Pablo Moreno will be added, ruled out for the rest of the season due to a right thigh adductor muscle injury that will sideline him for five weeks. Martí Vilà and Albanis, already in the squad against Espanyol, are available for Costa.