Real Oviedo Head Coach, Juan Antonio Anquela, appeared in the Press Room this morning and gave a positive assessment of his team’s work during the week, saying, “They do what we ask of them and they do it well. We have had no problems during the week, except for Juan Carlos, who has a sprain. We won’t take any chances with him.”
With Ramon Folch missing due to his accumulation of yellow cards, the Coach highlighted that “he is a player that has been maturing and playing better and better. It’s clear that we will miss him, but we have never complained about absences and we just need to be clear about what we want and how to achieve it, and that is easy. We need to work constantly.”
Ahead of the trip to an opponent on a fine run of form in CD Tenerife, Anquela described them as having “a great squad and a great team. Last year they went very close to promotion to the First Division. They are on a very good run. If last year they were good, this year they are even better. However, there’s no margin for error in this division. They had a more difficult period, but now they are doing much better.”
With respect to his own team, Anquela said that, “we go into it in very good shape and with a lot of excitement and desire. We know that it won’t be easy, but we have shown we can compete with anyone. We have known right from the start that there would be more difficult periods in which we would need to stick together and know how to suffer. Our team always gives everything and competes well in every stadium, but it is something else to get good results.”
Asked whether a failure to pick up good results worried him, the Coach argued that, “I’ve said it many times, especially when everyone was going around euphorically. We have always maintained the necessary tranquillity and calmness, in the knowledge of what we had to come and what we had to face. It’s something normal which happens at every club. It happened to us in the first half of the season too. I would be worried if the team wasn’t competing. We couldn’t score, but we did everything possible to win, and that’s all there is to it.”
Finally, the Real Oviedo Coach believes that, “the most important thing is that the team doesn’t stop fighting, gives everything it has, and has a heart and soul which are difficult to find. That is what has got us to where we are now and what we will continue to build on until the end of the season,” he concluded.
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