With the Champions in the pocket, but with the aim of binding the fourth place and with the desire to stalk the third. With three points ahead plus the average on the Villarreal Already the same three points, but with the average against, of the Atlético. “Mathematics are there and until they say otherwise you have to try,” said a Valverde That also looks forward. Knowing, yes, that the only thing in your hands is to be rooms: “Only one thing depends on us, defending us with Villarreal. Atlético depends on himself And with a victory he has done it. ”
There will be rotations in Mestalla “To have energy” because the calendar does not give truce to the Athletic nor in his last chapters. A one awaits you Valencia that even looks Europa: “They are seen that they are confident in what they are doing, which is the best thing that can happen to a team.”
The Bilbao, meanwhile, face the visit without almost margin to have decorcinated the champagne. “If we had had the entire week the celebration would have been greaterbut it doesn't give us time. We arrived at four in the morning, yesterday (on Friday) we had to train and now we are marching. But my players are celebrating, as you leave them a little margin … ” He has pointed with a smile.
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The celebration goes, above all, inside in the case of Valverde. “For us it is the second time that it is achieved in this century. It is more difficult for the Athletic go into Champions that for Barça o Madrid win the Liga Because the league wins it one or the other. And if they are neglected, the Atlético. It has great value. “In addition, with a plus of” difficulty having another competition “as the lions have had:” something we were not accustomed to in recent years. “
The parallels between this campaign and 13-14, that of the previous ticket for the maximum continental competition, are evident. Have we seen a Athletic More team, compared to that of a decade ago? “We are a club and a team to be. If it characterizes us something is to be a team. We have individualities, in attack, in defense, in the middle and in the goal. If you don't have them, you can't compete at high level, ”he explained Tle.
Although there is something else: “If there is something we have from the rest, it is the spirit we have. We have a point regarding our internal cohesion within the team and the costumes that make us overcome many difficulties and that we put in trouble to many teams, ”added the coach recognizing that Les “Missing game at certain times and maybe completion”they are costing them to make more goals lately, however they put other ingredients in the casserole. “We are a team that has problems at certain times of the season, but We supply it with our thrust, with the union we have inside and also with football because only with that is not played. ”
