Carlos Carvalhal’s ode to poise

Carlos Carvalhal left two messages before receiving Elche. The first: that you cannot go from depression to euphoria, or vice versa, as a result. The second, that everyone must be involved and focused on the goal of Celta’s sustainability, which has not been achieved so far.

“You have to find a balance. When we arrived, there was talk about the risk of relegation, and three months later about Europe. You can’t go from depression to euphoria,” commented the Portuguese coach on the roller coaster of emotions experienced in football through results. Carvalhal still insists that his team’s only bad performance was against Mallorca, but that they are “not depressed” because of it.

The coach never changed his speech. When Celta was riding a wave of good results, they never talked about the European goal and focused on one game at a time. Now, with four games without a win, he continues in the same place, but bearing in mind that the goal has not been achieved and that he needs the whole team to achieve it. “The coach, when he is fighting for permanence, does not think about next year and the players who are leaving or those who are on loan, but we are focused on the next game,” he said.

“We have to send a message to Celta, as a whole, that this is very serious and that we all have to go in the same direction and that we need everyone,” said the coach, who emphasized one of his principles: “Football is neither the past nor the future , it’s the present. These players have my full trust and we will achieve our goals and it takes everyone to fulfill that.”

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For this reason, he wants everyone to feel like a protagonist, and last Saturday, Swedberg had the opportunity to do that, after a long time he had minutes: “He deserved his chance to play.”

Other secondaries can follow the same path because “it is not good that there are players with the feeling that they will not stay at the club”. “Our way is to give everyone confidence, no one is left out. That’s our purpose,” he says. Especially considering that he leads a short team that needs B help, noting: “I won’t ask them to collect for the main team, but I ask them when necessary. I also have limitations to cover all positions on the field.

He has already made it clear in his analysis of the situation that the club at the bottom deserves the same respect as Real Madrid: “We respect Elche as much as the others. All teams have strengths and weaknesses. We have to be attentive and focused and at the best level, individually and collectively, in order to win the game.” Mandatory task.