He Villarreal is having an outstanding start to the season, placing itself in the eighth round of the League in the third place in the classification. The architect of this team’s project, Marcelino García Toralspoke to the microphones of Radioestadio Noche this Monday after defeating Las Palmas 3 to 1: “We are very happy, any of us would have signed this beginning of the season and have 17 points after playing with Barça and Atlético de Madrid and with the team being competitive.”
“I congratulated my players after the match. I am very satisfied with the reaction the team had after conceding a goal in the first minute of the second half,” he says. “I think the merit of the team is that all the players are plugged in, they feel important and have a high performance whether they start or come off the bench. I am very proud and grateful for the squad we have.“, he states.
So far Villarreal has only lost one game, against Barcelona, but this Saturday at 9:00 p.m. One of the most difficult matches of the championship awaits him, visit the Santiago Bernabéu: “In their field they are a super reliable team. There is no shortage of enthusiasm, we have to demonstrate ambition but we will have it and I hope it will be effective because without it it is impossible to score points at the Bernabéu.”
The team arrives with options to place second in the classification: “We face it with enthusiasm, with little to gain and much to lose. We know that playing at home is not the same as playing away because we know that Madrid submits there. “I think Real Madrid started the season with the late incorporation of players and it was difficult for them but now they are at cruising speed.”
Real Madrid arrives with numerous casualties like that of Mbappé that a priori he would miss the match due to a muscle injury in his hamstring but that he has been called up for the Champions League match against Lille: “For the show, for the Spanish league and as a spectator I want Mbappé to be on the field, but As coach of Villarreal, if he is not there, nothing happens to me. He seems like an absolutely differential player. For me, the most decisive footballer in today’s football“.
Marcelino has also valued what happened during the Madrid derby: “Fortunately there are no ultras in Villarreal. It doesn’t magnify what our league and football is to find episodes like yesterday’s. “Everyone who influences this type of situation must find the appropriate response to resolve it so that it does not happen.”
