“It should be resolved by now”

Carlos Carvalhal points to the theory of saw tooth. During his sports career, he was a coach with streaks, and this season he came to a team that specializes in the ups and downs of recent years, although for the most part Celtic subscribed to suffering.

“It wasn’t at the end of my mind. without panicthere is responsibility. There are things that didn’t work, and at the end of the season you have to do an analysis of what didn’t work,” Carvalhal admitted of the moment being experienced by a team that was looking straight at Europe at the end of March and who eight games later returned to a dramatic war of consistency.

“When I came here, there was a very serious problem, but now we have a problem that we have to solve,” he pointed out, reminding that Celta is the one that has the best of all teams in the consistency wagon. : “We are in good position, but realizing that this should have been resolved by now. Reality is like that and we have to live with reality. The team suffered collective transformation from the interruption ».

Faced with this, the expert staff points to a return to the past recovery the mechanisms which the team initiated: «It is a process similar to the one we did when we came here. Discovering the things we did and have to repeat,” commented the coach.

One of them could be a return to a five-man defense, an aspect he did not want to confirm: “I won’t say that. When we look, contrary Do you have any? influence in the positioning of our team. They have strong players on the wing in one on one, they play with 4-2-3-1 almost with another attacker behind another fast attacker. That’s the analysis we have to do and based on that we’ll see if we’ll place five, and that doesn’t mean we’re more defensive. He admits, however, that they could miss the arrival and even leave room in a wide area of ​​the field.

In his analysis of the situation, the Portuguese wanted to look back and reflect on the recent past of the team from Vigo. Bearing in mind that the current situation is not fleeting, but that it has been systematically repeated lately: “They are at Celta regular ups and downsThere is talk of a very large irregularity in recent years and it is important to understand why in order to try to change it. First of all, there is no loss of stability, and most importantly, there is no panic. You need to talk less and do more,” he said. Now is the time to save the emergency before you get into smart analysis.

“We have to be brave and fight from the first minute”

Carvalhal used the word courage the most when it came to situating the afternoon game in Vizcaya. “My message this week was one of courage. We have to be brave, we have to fight from the first minute to the last, we have to give our best at every moment of the game, and the courage has to come from the technical team as well,” said coach Braga, who bet on the psychological side all week.

The first premise is to give everything from the first minute and avoid conceding a goal in the first change, as happened in the last three matches: “The message for these four games is that from the first minute we have to go in with everything, without anxiety”, which should translate into maximum concentration: “A more focused and courageous team doesn’t suffer as much because of goals like this, that’s true. A team that has been struggling since the beginning is looking for more luck. When you are more focused, firm and from the first moment you go for victory, it happens less to you (conceive early goals)».

He also wanted to make it clear that he would not go out for the tie. “We are people who understand that if we are going to tie, the possibility of losing is high. We don’t understand football that way. The team must be more aware, more mature, must want to grab things from the first minute. He reminded that there is no point in putting the eleven behind the ball if you end up losing. He admitted that the beginning is very complicated, “but it is also motivating to play in a stadium like this”.