Sure: "Gavi is amazing, he is 17 years old!"

Murat Yakinselector of Switzerlandshowered with praise Gavi before facing Spain in Geneva this Thursday (8:45 pm/La1). “It is incredible that at that age he is able to handle the concepts of the game like that, assimilate so many things at only 17 years old,” the coach said at a press conference. “Hopefully we can find a way for him not to hurt us. But shockingly, he’s 17 years old!” he insisted.

Switzerland did not start well with this edition of League of Nations. They both lost the game and the second they lost Portugal. “There were two away games with serious defensive problems. It hurt, especially in Portugal. We haven’t been consistently defensively. We also have no luck. We want to do things better”.

Sure he recalled that “we lacked a lot of defenders, we replaced the goalkeeper … We lacked automatisms in the back”. In dealing with the match against Spain, he came with several players between the cottons. “We’re going to see how they are, we have to wait until the last moment to know what we can do, especially in the back.” In this sense, it conditions the system in having its personnel. “We don’t have 15 or 20 players of the same level, like Portugal and Spain, who can change the whole team. But we have our options.”

Despite the losses, Sure stressed that “the environment is very good. We come from a very high stage of play in qualifying for world. But I don’t think we’re playing bad. We have things missing and we need to measure our efforts against this calendar. We will change things for the better, he added.

Finally, the Swiss coach recalled that “the goal is the World Cup, but there is no better way to prepare for it than to try to beat. Spain“, he said Sure when he was asked if he would prefer to beat Spain or pass the first stage to Qatar.