Blanquiverde’s coach, Iván Ania, visited the press room before the match against Almería de this Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. at the UD Almería Stadium.
For Iván Ania, “in Almería you win by having personality, if only you defend yourself it’s difficult, you also have to attack, be strong defensively and generate danger. They have one of the models with more potential of the category, we are going to catch them in a good moment of form, they are at their best, we know how difficult it is, but we are going there with the intention of being able to win the three points.
iron defense
According to him, “defensively, we cannot give in to them, because they still create danger, Cartagena knew how to get ahead, when they are installed, they appear Arribas and Luis Suárez to score a goal out of nowhere. We must be aware that we must not concede, we must be a very solid team, in attack we must let go. We start with the idea of being solid defensively, with the idea of attacking them, taking the ball back from them, with good surveillance. In the Second Division, there is no easy game for anyone, we know the difficulty of the game, we let ourselves be attacked without any fear.
Lapeña, sanctioned
Córdoba will have an important change in defense for this match. Lapeña will not be available after seeing his fifth yellow card (pending ratification by the competition committee). Iván Ania confirmed the recovery of Albarrán and as candidates to replace Lapeña he named “Xavi Sintes, Martínez or even Albarrán who already played with me as central defender”. The central defender of the subsidiary, although with the first team, Matías Barboza is still injured and will always remain on the sidelines.
Adilson’s trump card
Regarding Adilson, he commented: “He is better, I took him out against Zaragoza first on the right to hurt Clemente. Then we moved him to the left where he feels most comfortable , he has completely forgotten about the injury. You can already see that speed and spark in training. For us, he is a player who. gives us something different from what we havebecause of the speed and the fact of going into space, it generates danger, it is very important for us. By Christmas he has to contribute to us because in the rest of the start of the championship he was barely able to participate.
winter market
Regarding the winter market, he stressed that “it’s another job for the offices. We all know where we need to improve, where we need to strengthen, it’s not my job, I give my opinion, but I don’t do this work, it’s work on the offensive side. I communicate with them daily, we are aware that the winter market is very difficult, what you need is not there or it is there and you do not have access to it. It’s a complicated marketit’s not the same to bring in a player on January 1st as on January 31st. What is available are players without rhythm, others unemployed without a team, it’s difficult. We are aware of what we need to strengthen, but we don’t know if it’s going to happen because we may not have access to it. “We have to be calm, have confidence in what we have and the January market will be visible.”
Match by match
Ania made it clear that she was not thinking long term and only “we are thinking about the next match, we are thinking about Almería, not Gijón”. Just like Copa del Rey week. There may be sanctions and injuries that disrupt everythingNow thinking about the match against Tenerife, I don’t see the point. You have to compete, try to win the game and try to add points game by game. We are aware that a tougher schedule awaits us, but we are all playing in the same conditions and anything can happen in football. “We have to try to have that strong mentality as locals, as visitors.”
