MADRID, 7 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Osasuna coach, Jagoba Arrasate, confessed that “getting a good result” against FC Barcelona this Tuesday (9:30 p.m.) would be “putting the icing on the cake at the start of the season” and “complete happiness”, in a duel that they will seek “take the blaugrana to the limit”.
“The sensations are good and it goes hand in hand with the score. We want more, and getting a good result tomorrow would be the icing on the cake for this start of the season,” said Arrasate at the press conference prior to the duel against the Catalans.
The rojillo coach stressed that Barça’s “league numbers” “speak for themselves”, with 11 clean sheets in 13 games. “They have decisive players, to win these matches you have to be very good and make few mistakes, finish with eleven…”, he analyzed.
“They usually take the initiative, we will try to have the ball. But we don’t have to obsess over that, they also hurt you running. If we don’t avoid their transitions, we will suffer, we have to play a good game with and without the ball. comfortable. We want to take them to the limit, they have won many games with sufficiency”, he expressed about the Blaugrana.
Given this, Osasuna, who has not beaten Barça at El Sadar since 2012, needs his “best version”. “We will have to play an almost perfect match to have options tomorrow, we have to put everything on the table,” said Arrasate, who joked with the time of the match. “On Tuesdays and Wednesdays things haven’t gone very well for them, we play on Tuesday, let’s see if that’s the case…” he quipped, referring to the Champions League and the poor performance of the Catalan team in Europe.
“A good result tomorrow would be complete happiness, as well as a win in the Cup, that’s what we need to round off this good start. We’re coming off a good run and we’re looking forward to the match”, admitted the coach.
Arrasate took refuge in the greater maturity of his squad to face this type of encounter with more guarantees. “The team is mature, the squad is better than last year. The other day we won a game knowing how to suffer, we are getting better and better, but the category is very difficult. We do NOT have to sleep, but we have to value what we are doing, because it is not easy,” he stressed.
“We haven’t even had time to enjoy Saturday’s game. The people are really looking forward to it, there will be a very good start, we also need them to go even better for the break”, he commented on his latest victory in Balaídos, before highlighting the “confidence “from Chimy Ávila, author of a brace against Celta.
