Jorge Sampaoli: "The first step is to compete on equal terms with any rival"

MADRID, 10 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Sevilla's coach, Jorge Sampaoli, is clear that "the first step" for his team with his arrival is to "compete on an equal footing with any rival", starting this Tuesday in the Champions League match against a German Borussia Dortmund with "very strong individual and collective key pieces".

"The evolution will be seen on the field. We are trying to get the players to develop a collective functioning to have an extremely competitive team. The first step is to compete on an equal footing with any rival," Sampaoli warned at a press conference.

The Argentine recalled that the Sevilla team "does not come from previous negative stages". "They are positive and he has to recover his memory quickly," he said, asking to "calm down the game" and hoping that his squad "let go and play without pressure."

"We have to be a team that competes in the best way against teams that already have arguments like Dortmund, which is a team that is in a great moment of form. We, from minor to major, have to try to recover the form that we identify as a club, we have to discover what we are and grow as a group under an idea", he added.

The Sevilla coach pointed out that his team "has to motivate themselves" and show them that they "want to generate different things because of the shield they carry and with a collective behavior that will make them feel comfortable on the pitch". "The most important thing is the organization and in that organization that there is something in common and that the efforts are totally joint," he stressed.

For Sampaoli, his players are making "an enormous effort". "They don't find results, they get discouraged and misdiagnoses are interpreted. This team needs to play better and if they don't have the ball, because of the characteristics of the players they have, it will cost them," he pointed out.

Casilda's believes that he has "very experienced players" and that they will need "a lot of players who can perform within their capacity as much as they can." In this sense, he referred to Marcao, a footballer weighed down so far by his physical problems and who "needs to compete", and Fernando Reges, whom the group "needs", but whose evolution due to mononucleosis "is slower than expected". normal".

"Dortmund has very strong individual and collective key pieces, with players with a lot of conviction and confidence. I want my team to have the decision to come and play a game on a nice pitch and enjoy it. We have to try to neutralize the abilities of those footballers and we must have the clarity to play a game from where we can do it, making a very solid and very determined team uncomfortable", he sentenced.