The Villarreal coach, Marcelino García Toralwarned in the press conference that his team cannot relax before the visit this Monday of the bottom UD Las Palmas, due to the fact that they are playing at home and that their rival has not yet won the championship.
“We can’t relax and believe that we will win because we are playing at home and because they have not won. Last year Villarreal added zero points against Las Palmas, I repeat, zero points. At this level no one gives you no one“he noted.
“It is a team that receives few opportunities and has conceded goals in the few opportunities of the rivals. It is a dynamic team, very associative and with players with very good footing. “He is in a training period because he has a new coach, but he hasn’t changed that much compared to last year,” he added.
The Asturian coach, who recalled that they have only won one of the three games they have played at home, stressed that “for me, all the games They have the same danger. You face a rival who wants to beat you and can beat you. “I would like to have enough capacity for conviction so that the team faces the game with the same intensity and motivation as against Barcelona and even more.”
For this meeting, Marcelino announced that he will do rotations, although less than he would have liked as he is conditioned by the numerous injured that is currently on your staff.
“All the teams currently have information to know the status of the players and be able to prevent injuries. It is not something that is one hundred percent true, but it does help to avoid increasing physical problems. There are players with a lot of minutes load and games and we don’t want to overwhelm them because it could be worse. There is data on footballers that invites us to have to preserve some players. We have quite a few injuries and we don’t want to have more,” he stressed.
Regarding the absence of his top scorer in the squad, he explained that “Ayoze suffers a muscle injury mildWe don’t want to take risks, if the game had been in a week, he could have been there, but with only four days we prefer to reserve him. “It’s not a mishap that worries us too much.”
Despite the good start to the season Villarrealthe team is one of the teams that receives the most goals in the championship, although its coach indicated that they already showed greater defensive solidity last day against Espanyol.
“If we defend like against Barça we will have difficult to win. If we defend like we did against Espanyol, we will be much closer to winning. We must take advantage of the moments in which we are strong defensively and develop it throughout the game, as we did against Espanyol. Furthermore, for quality, take advantage of the offensive situations available to us,” he concluded.