spanish warm up for the first round of the playoffs promotion, the match they will play on Sunday against Sporting at El Molinón (9 pm). The parakeet team is clinging to its good moment (16 games without defeat) and its defensive solidity, as the team that scored the least in the four matches, to be confident of being the owner of the last ticket to return to the First Division.
He ‘Lele’ Cabrera, one of the perpetrators of the parakeet wall since he took control Manolo Gonzalez, considering that in this final phase there is no clear favorite to win promotion and rise to the elite. “Sporting is the team that had the best results against us in this match and everyone plays this factor as they want, but we arrived in a very good dynamic and we have to be a reliable team, who defends well and does damage at the top. The last game in this aspect went well for us,” the center-back explained to the club’s media this Thursday.
About if Spanish is the favorite to touch the sky on the 23rd (end of promotion), considering that in a playoff “there are no favorites, they don’t exist. Despite this, the four of us have reasons to be very confident.”
Cabrera made sure the team quickly replaced the chip and that he came prepared for promotion. “Fortunately, this team has a lot of players who already know what promotion means and that experience and background gives you a bit of peace of mind. The playoff is not a penalty, You understand that experience as an equal opportunity to grow. Everything has been assimilated and we see this as a new opportunity,” he insisted.
The parakeet central defender faced the decisive final stretch with the confidence of a good moment of a Spaniard who forgot the defeat. “The team is very optimistic, we are coming off a very good streak without losing and that gives us a lot of confidence. Being a solid team, reliable in defense, that opens up possibilities for you. We start with a qualifying advantage, but that doesn’t mean it’s a tough opponent,” he warned.
Asked about Sporting, the ‘Lele’ expected “a team that the first minutes try to overwhelm, play on our field in any way, as happened in the League. They look strong. “They’re not going to come out and stop anything, but we know how to deal with it.”
The ‘uru’ is clear that it is very important to achieve a good result in The first leg this Sunday in Gijón. “In any tie the most important thing is always the first, it’s not definitive, but whoever is good in the first leg, generally in the second leg, has come a long way. Although it is not definitive, it does approach the condition and the exit method on the return leg. Let’s go to Molinón, where it became complicated in the League, was a pot under pressure… Think now. For them there are many motivating factors, but we know what will happen and we are doing it,” he stated.
Source: La Verdad
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