The coach of Real Zaragoza, Victor Fernandezwas directed against Tenerife Sports Clubtheir rival next Friday in the territory of the island, expects a “complicated, difficult and exceptionally equal” match. “We have to be honest with our ideas, with our game and be ambitious. We respect Tenerife but we have to go with the idea of winning,” he assured a press conference.
The Zaragoza coach explained that it is going to be a duel between two teams that have the same aspirations: “They want to go up, they have a high budget and they signed our top scorer.”
The ‘blanquillo’ coach recalled that in the Second Division “there is no comfortable or easy match” and pointed out that there are at least 16 candidates fighting for promotion and not all of them can go up. “Everyone wants to improve and there are surprising results. It’s hard to be regular, solid and consistent because everyone is struggling,” he said.
In this regard, he added that “the road is long and what we should do is enjoy every moment without thinking about the end.” “The path is made by walking. This is very long and the important thing is to enjoy the stages and not think about the end because if not, you will not enjoy it. If you do it this way it will allow you to withstand the falls better,” he highlighted.
When asked about the team’s performance, which in the early days was very positive and now has gone wrong with three defeats in the last four games, he explained that they had “major errors” that punished them and they were not at the beginning. “Sometimes you have mistakes that punish us and sometimes you don’t. We gave the opponent an advantage in the last two games and there were situations where we were punished,” he commented.
In this regard, he summed up the last match against Racing de Santander in one sentence, in which Real Zaragoza lost 2-3: “In the first half we didn’t play and we didn’t try to play what we could play.” In this regard, he added that his team did not play the game they should have played in the first 45 minutes and that is what they worked on this week to prepare for the match against Tenerife.
“We have to recover the mechanisms and the usual game that made us a competitive and winning team. We need to recover our football. Nobody has subdued us for 90 minutes, no team can do this to another rival but we gave a lot in defense unlike the first days,” he highlighted.
Source: La Verdad
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