Real Oviedo defender Christian Fernández appeared in the Press Room at the end of today’s training session. He stated that “the team is annoyed with the last result. Above all, we are aware that we need to take responsibility for the collective mistakes in order to go into this week in the best way possible, just as we have done so far in 2019. Doing so will help us get back to winning ways and reach fifty points. After that, we’ll see what we have to do from here on in.”
Reflecting on the match in Mallorca, the Cantabrian stated that “we lost the game from a set play, which we had worked on during the week, and so something in our own hands cost us the match. Everything else is just about moments. There can be bad ones, but I don’t think that they will be our focus from here on in.”
In addition, for Christian, “it is very difficult to maintain such a run for so many months during a season. Undoubtedly there are moments, and what we can’t do now is forget who we are. Maybe we forgot for a moment in Mallorca, but I don’t think you can focus too much on that when we have kept on the same path in every match since the beginning of the year.”
Asked about Nàstic de Tarragona coming to the Tartiere, the defender stated that “you will have to ask Albacete about them, since they lost to them in the last minute last week. You all keep insisting on differentiating between the teams at the top and the teams down below, and I don’t think that there is any difference. All of the teams are much more equal than the league table suggests. It’s not going to be an easy match or a landslide. Anyone that thinks otherwise should stay home and not come to the Tartiere. We are going to have a hard match in front of us, but we will do our best to be the team that we have been for a lot of this year. That is our objective. The result will be the consequence of doing many things well, and depends on whether we can control the finer details.”
Regarding the opponent, Christian concluded that “they are coming here in need of points and hurting, and they have to know that they are coming to the Tartiere to face another team that needs to win. Set piece plays have cost us five points in the last two matches as well as the head-to-head record that we had against Mallorca. If we are the team that I said we were, we are just like the rest. We don’t have a number of tremendous players that can define a match, but the strength of this team lies in the collective. We can’t forget who we are. We are an intense, scrappy, aggressive team, and we hope that our opponents see us as an ugly and awful team that nobody wants to play against. That has to be who we are from here on in.”
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