“Ambitious, but with our feet on the ground,” is how the coach defined, Mikel Azparrenthe purpose of Manresa for this season in a Third Federation which starts this weekend. Knowing that after the relegation the intention is to return to the Second Federation, the coach, however, does not want to think beyond each game.
New template
To achieve the goal, Manresa has a completely new team. Only four players remain from last season, Óscar Pulido, Marc Cuello, Nil Garrido and Tom Diawara, although the latter played at Ebro, these are the 23 players that Azparren has for the first league clash at the Ebro field Tue (Sunday, 6pm): Óscar Pulido and David Montero (Palamós), goalkeepers; Óscar Reche (Vilassar Mar), Marc Muñoz (Montañesa), Iván Bravo (Europa), Xavier Samper (Rapitenca), Sergi Benítez (Sant Andreu), Jaime Márquez (Villacañas) and Manel Martínez (Cerdanyola), defenders; Marc Cuello, Nil Garrido, David Batanero (Badalona), Antonio Romero (RB Linense), Edu Tapias (Martinenc) and Guifré Bernabeu (Damm), midfielders; and Salva Costa (Damm), Aleix Díaz (Vilassar Mar), Eloi Gila (FC Santa Coloma), Tom Diawara (Ebro), Moha Ezzarfani (Cerdanyola), Izan Sarmiento (Spain), Luka Jatchvlian (Motorlet Prague) and Isa Drammeh ( Motril), forward.
From less to more
At the end of the preseason, Azparren was happy with the team’s evolution. “We became less. We try and balance the team and the level of play and assume that the concepts have gone well. We lack another point of effectiveness to improve the results. But we have time to refine.
Source: La Verdad
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