Chus Mateo: "You have to have the concentration that the Palau always demands of you"

MADRID, 12 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Real Madrid basketball coach, Chus Mateo, is clear that Barça will make "things very complicated" for them this Thursday in their Euroleague match at the Palau Blaugrana, a scenario that "always requires you to have concentration", while he stated that he has some concern in his team in the amount of losses that he is accumulating at this start of the season where also "many things are going well".

"It's a 'special' game because we're playing against a very good team and a very tough opponent who will make things very difficult for us. We have to go to the Palau knowing that we're going to face a rival who is going to give it their all against their public, who have already lost a game at home and will want to make up for it," Mateo assured this Wednesday at a press conference.

The Madrid coach demanded his team "be very prepared, mainly for his departure". "Throughout the game you will have to have the concentration that the Palau always demands of you," he added, warning that they will have to make "a good approach" where they can bring out the "possible weaknesses" of the Blaugrana and the "strengths" of Madrid.

The Madrilenian recognized that one never knows "if it is the best moment" to measure himself against a Barça that has started with some doubts. "At the end of the year you play with them at the beginning, in the middle and at the end. It is a very good team, very well trained, with plenty of resources to compete against anyone and one of the favorites in the competitions to be at the top," he explained. the.

"Barça have the quality and skill to make things very difficult for you and if for some reason they haven't achieved the results they expected, surely with more reason they will immediately want to show the team they want", continued Chus Mateo.

The Real Madrid coach sees the culé team as "well" and insisted that they have "lots of resources". "It has some casualties, but it is an outstanding team that will get better over time. It has had changes that are important for its structure and its way of playing, but we are just starting and those possible doubts will be resolved very soon," he warned.

About his team, so far undefeated, he stressed that "there are things that begin to come to light when you start playing more continuously", but confessed that he would like to "improve" the issue of losses. "Perhaps we are losing too many balls, we have to contextualize how they are and that they are not so much in the pass itself, but we are not doing it very well and there is much room for improvement", he admitted.

"As soon as we improve the quality of the pass, we will have more assists, better shots and better percentages. It is something that worries me and that we can shoot because it will give us more balance to recover behind. There are many things to improve, we are starting, but also many that they are going well", underlined the Real Madrid coach.

This also referred to "important things" such as playing with "heart" because you have to know how to be "together in difficult moments, in which brave people must appear, who do not make mistakes and who are able to maintain concentration. In There are many alternatives in a game and having gone through different experiences that don't make you lose faith when you're behind or take anything for granted when it seems you have a definite advantage", he explained.

Finally, he reported that Adam Hanga and Nigel William-Goss are the closest to "being part of training" and ruled out talking about Facundo Campazzo, whose destiny now seems closer to the Dallas Mavericks. "It's a waste of time talking to someone who isn't there. If he arrives, fine, and if not, we'll keep working. There are some guys who are working like champions to face Barça and that's the only thing that worries me," he said.