“Anyone who thinks we are not interested in the Conference is very wrong”

Manuel Pellegrini is warning in the hours before the visit to Miss Boleslav which in today’s football has no easy rivals, although the Czech team lost its three games in the group stage of Conference. “We must forget about Valencia, where six disastrous minutes decided the match, and now try to play a complete game and not believe that it is easy because there is no easy opponent. Anyone who has time and space makes it difficult The team “He is focused and aware of the importance and I hope we can win,” said the Betis coach at the press conference held this afternoon in Seville, before flying to the Czech Republic.

The Betic coach wants to face those who say that the Conference is a competition that does not interest him: “Anyone who thinks that we are not interested in the Conference League is very wrong. It is a way for thirteen games and not 38 to enter the Europa League “It’s a way to get to Europe next year and it’s very important.”

Pellegrini confirmed Abde’s departure for Thursday: “He arrived with a viral illness, fever and sore throat. He will not be on the list”, while insisting that on Sunday he will not be able to recover any of the seven players his injured – Fornals , Bellerín, Johnny, Marc Roca, Isco, Mendy and William Carvalho: “None of them will come this Sunday, let’s see the next one. It will also be difficult but I cannot give a diagnosis.”

The Chilean seems more optimistic about the idea, launched by the player himself, of seeing Isco, who this Wednesday started to warm-up with the group, play again before the end of the year: “It’s hard to know. He had a Very good recovery at this time He is not sick and his physical demands can be activated a bit, let’s see how he evolves when the intensity increases and he has to work at the end of December. an answer I can give you at this time” .

The Betic coach, asked about the team’s ups and downs, was dissatisfied with this assessment: “That’s how football is and all teams go through the same moment. In the last eight games we only lost one. That was difficult. We lost against Valencia in disastrous minutes but we have seven unbeaten What we ask for is the highest Football does not allow us to win every game Sometimes the opponent outplays you and when it is because of unacceptable mistake, you’re more angry. We had five fairly consistent seasons we played in Europe and we got to Europe and Eintracht knocked us out winning in the 120th minute, which was important.

“Today in the Conference we try to be regular but it is impossible to win everything. We do not lose self-criticism or ambition, winning as well as losing. The team always wants to come out with the same intensity. We try even if it is not always happens. We play on Sunday, Thursday and Sunday and we have to have a squad to be active in the three competitions in Poland, no intensity and no finish.