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Madrid, Feb 25 (EFE).- Íñigo Pérez, coach of Rayo Vallecano, praised this Sunday the Girona coach, Miguel Ángel Sánchez Muñoz, ‘Míchel’, whom he said is “a person to observe, look at, analyze and imitate”, and highlighted the Catalan team’s “strength” as a local team in a “difficult scenario”.
The Navarrese coach faces his second game on the Rayo Vallecano bench, in which he debuted last day with a draw against Real Madrid.
“Taking a hand at Girona is always going to be difficult. They are a team that has been working together for some time, that is in a very good dynamic this season and that they are clearly fighting for an exciting goal such as entering Europe. It is true that they have been some games where they have not been so good in terms of results, but it is not far from their games where they have achieved victories,” said Íñigo Pérez, at a press conference, before the afternoon training session.
“Their streak does not make us see that now is an easier time to be able to win,” said the Rayista coach, who acknowledged that Montilivi “is not an intimidating stadium, although the data is good to know that Girona is very strong.” at home”.
“That makes you prepare for a difficult scenario in which the players have tools to neutralize and harm them,” he said.
One of the architects of this Girona’s success is its coach, Míchel, raised in the Rayo youth academy, the club in which he became a footballer and in whose first team he played more than four hundred official matches as a player before becoming a coach.
“His work this year is being praised by everyone and the results speak for him. If you don’t win you never come to the fore. I’m very happy for him. Having suffered against him as a rival as a player and last year as assistant coach he becomes, for people who start or who don’t start but like football, a person who must be observed, looked at, analyzed and imitated, within which each one has their traits,” he declared.
Last day, Rayo played a good game in Vallecas and neutralized Real Madrid, giving a radically different image of the game to the one they had been offering in previous games.
“The players are happy and we tend to say that the change has been positive and that it has been good for us. We should consider whether with the same game and the same attitude the result would have been against us. I am happy with the work this week. This “The staff has a resistance to very high demands,” he confessed.
“For Rayo, any sequence of matches in First Division in which you score is positive. It is true that you cannot always hope to draw, but against the first two, even though we want to win, it is positive. I would be hypocritical if I said no “We are preparing to win, but coming from this situation adding two draws and more taking into account that circumstance would be positive,” he said.
Against Girona there will be no Isi Palazón, suspended but also injured.
“He had a muscle problem and noticed some difficulty in continuing. They have been doing tests but you have to know that injuries of this type are a bit unpredictable. Until he performs on a day-to-day basis, it will be difficult to quantify how much he has left,” she noted.
After the tie between Cádiz and Celta de Vigo, Rayo Vallecano will take to the Montilivi pitch seven points away from relegation.
“I haven’t focused on doing calculations, I focus on the day to day. We all know what the goal is, regardless of whether salvation will be expensive or cheap. If we get it we must be very happy. We don’t have to be complacent or achieve it in any way, but we know it’s going to be difficult. When the last ten games arrive there is always a team that spurs on in the classification and we don’t have to let that moment arrive to react,” he concluded. EFE
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