Eibar (Guipúzcoa), Dec 16 (EFE) .- Eibar coach José Luis Mendilibar stated this Wednesday that his team must “take the Copa del Rey match against Racing Rioja” seriously from the beginning.
? The idea is to win – said the armorer technician on the eve of the match in El Mazo de Haro (La Rioja) – knowing that we have a Third Division rival who must be respected, of course, because they are going to put all of their part to be able to eliminate us, but we have to take the game seriously from the beginning. “
“It is not good for us to start at two per hour and when you see that they score a goal, you can’t, want to increase the pace and things like that, because it’s already very difficult and you can’t,” he concluded.
The Biscayan coach referred to the last Cup experience of last season in which Eibar went through “two qualifying rounds, one well and the other very fair” and then was eliminated in the third by Badajoz, a Second B team.
“We are not phenomena, so to win anyone we have to be one hundred percent,” said Mendilibar.
The Zaldibar coach announced that tomorrow it is normal for the majority of the club’s footballers who have fewer minutes to play. “This time,” said Mendilibar, “there are more changes, there are almost all of them, but I think that if we come out plugged in, we have to get the tie, because otherwise we have made a rather serious mistake.”
In tomorrow’s game, Mendilibar will only have two players from the subsidiary because there are many players in the squad, a total of 25, and we must prioritize the players who do not have minutes. “With long squads it is difficult to get hold of the people below,” the gunsmith coach lamented.
Finally, he played down the importance of the match against Racing Rioja being played on an artificial grass pitch.
“Today the artificial grass pitches are very good and we will not be able to blame that if they eliminate us,” he clarified.
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