Quique Setién: "Real Madrid is injured and any injured animal is much more dangerous"

MADRID, 18 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Villarreal's coach, Quique Setién, admitted that he would have preferred Real Madrid, his rival this Thursday in the Copa del Rey round of 16, to come away with a victory because he knows that he is "injured and any injured animal is much more dangerous ", although he is also clear that any hint of doubt in this type of rival is "fictitious" due to the potential of his squad.

"I prefer that the teams have won the previous day. You know that it rarely happens that Real Madrid lose two games in a row and that is a handicap. I don't pay attention to the fact that they are in a bad moment or tired, they will surely come to win in the better conditions and knowing that it comes from being injured and any injured animal is much more dangerous", Setién stressed this Wednesday at a press conference.

The Spaniard recalled that this second duel in less than two weeks with Carlo Ancelotti's team has the difference that "you can't go wrong because you're left out." And this can always accentuate the level of attention and demand, but you experience this many times and the footballer accepts it as one more requirement, "he clarified.

"You always expect a very difficult game against Real Madrid, we all know the potential it has. It is true that you may think that now it is in a moment of doubt, but this is fictitious with players of this level, who do not need to play their best game to move it forward", pointed out the coach of the Castellón team.

Setién believes that Carlo Ancelotti "will try to reinforce the things they did well and explain the situations in which they found themselves involved" with respect to the league game on January 7 in which they won 2-1. "The plan will be the same, both yours and ours," he predicted.

In this sense, the 'Yellow Submarine' coach believes that "you know things that you have not done well and that you are going to try to improve them, and what you have done well, repeat it". "We, in general, did a lot of things right, although we were wrong in some. I don't know if it will be a similar match because the circumstances are different, but I'm sure it will be entertaining and alternatives," explained the man from Santander.

"Real Madrid as a whole is differential and it is difficult to stop their players. Player by player they are surely better than ours, just as we are better than other teams of a lower level, but this is not always decisive and sometimes the small he eats the biggest. Now there is a lot of equality and it's hard for everyone to win, the logical thing and by potential would be for Real Madrid to win, but in football logic doesn't always apply", he stated.

Setién hopes that the fans will give them "the same unconditional support" of the league duel in order to overcome a tie where "there will surely be moments of weakness." "We're playing against a great team and anything that helps is going to come in handy and will help strengthen our spirits at those moments in the game," said the coach.

In any case, in case of victory, he warned that "still" they would lack "a world" to be able to think of a cup final. "What worries us is getting this game and then facing the one in Girona. I don't set long-term goals and above all doing things well, which is what will help me win," he remarked.

"My intention is to work and think that I'm going to stay in one place my whole life, that allows me to make long-term decisions and not think about the result on Sunday and see things in perspective. I have my way of doing things. things, I try to work and that what happens outside does not influence me neither when I win nor when I lose", he sentenced after the criticism received for the bad results upon his arrival.