Montse Tomé and Olga Carmona were responsible for serving the media in the press room of the Stockhorn Arena of ThunRecuse where this Monday (18:00, LA1). Spain will face Belgium on the second day of the Eurocup. After the win (5-0) against Portugal in the debut, the message that is transmitted from the locker room is to keep the feet on the floor.
“We have managed favoritism, we have already told the players to be humble. We have focused on training to prepare this game. The message is that only one game has won,” said the coach. “Against Portugal we were very good at the defensive level. Belgium travels very well, but we have it very studied. We want to impose and dominate with the ball. Tomorrow we will compete for the ball, there is no other left. In the average we have the best players in the world and see if they can remove the ball,” he revealed.
With Cola Coll and Alba Redondo practically discarded -They were on the margin of the group-, It remains to be resolved if Aitana Bonmatí returns to ownership. “It has a brutal mental capacity and has been a pity that would go through this. The other day his health was prioritized and played what he could. And we will continue in that line. It is fine and recovered,” he said. About the possibility that the two -time Golden Ball coincides in the field with Vicky Lópezthe coach threw balls outside: “We value which players can play and coldly as a professional that I am, depending on the rival, we place one or the other. On the most personal side that makes you sad that they have not entered the game because they are prepared. On the personal side, it is obvious that it is sorry.”
She was also asked by Jenni Hermoso and her words in the previous Eurocup in which the selection maximum historical scorer said in RTVE that “neither forgave nor forget.” “Time has not given me to see it, they have informed me, and I don't have much to comment on the subject,” he replied.
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Olga Carmona, at a press conference.
Olga Carmona, third team captain, said the team is very good. “We are happy because we wanted to start this Eurocup with victory and we did so, but we know that all the selections will make it very difficult for us. We have a new challenge that we want to overcome, we expect a very strong Belgium and we are going to prepare to face them,” he said.
The PSG player flees from the word favoritism. “That word within the team is no internal level. We want to add victories little by little without making ourselves illusions, football is very unpredictable, we want to transform the talk into realities,” he said.
The defense talked about the strengths of the team and those things they want to improve. “We were very good in the defensive surveillance and that is what we are going to look for with Belgium. We have studied them, we want to have them controlled, make our game, dominate the ball and try to make us the least possible damage,” he said. “We will compete for the ball. We live from the ball, we want to have the domain, we have the best in the middle of the field and that facilitates our possession of the ball and tomorrow we will see if we are able to have the ball everything we would like or if Belgium is able to take off the ball,” he added.
He also talked about his connection with Esther González, with whom he agreed at Real Madrid. “Esther is a player I have a lot of love, I have shared moments at Real Madrid and it is with the front that I speak most. It's a killer Within the area and I, who characterizes me for focusing a lot, I try to look for it because I know the areas I will reach and she knows what I am going to arrive, “he said.
