Osasuna coach, Vicente Morenois grateful to his predecessor, a Jagoba Arrasate who conveyed “a lot of positive messages” about the club, “something reassuring for a newcomer”.
After leading the Espanyol, Mallorca or AlmeríaMoreno found in Pamplona the tranquility and the perfect climate to carry out his work with stability and confidence. The good start to the championship allowed him to enter the break with the homework completed.
In an interview with EFE, the coach positively values the 7 points out of 12 possiblebut he would have liked to have had a better background: “Maybe it’s not bad. It could be better, but also worse. That’s what we achieved, but at the beginning you have to have the ambition to win every game, especially the most immediate one.
He is satisfied with his team’s performance: “It is a reality that we must improve in many waysIt’s obvious. But it would be unfair not to see the positive side. “We did a lot of things well and they helped us win two games and almost the first against Leganés.”
“The areas for improvement are not only the plots that didn’t go well, but also the ones you did well. I wouldn’t close myself off to any of them because we all have room for improvement” he continues.
Faces of Osasuna five games in three weeks: “The closest is Rayo, that’s where we have to focus all our energies. We will try to be like the team from the three games in El Sadar, because getting closer will give us more possibilities of adding the three points.
He says he sees “a lot of ceiling” for his current model: “These are players who, the previous season, showed their level, finishing better or worse in the standings, but always leaving good feelings and a very high bar.”
“A change of coach is difficult for them. I saw them with their ears pricked up, attentive to everything, observing you and measuring you, which is normal. We experienced it in the same way, with that concern and enthusiasm from the first day. He Time and work will allow us to know and love each other much more.“, he says about his arrival on the bench and the treatment with his new students.
“I’m thrilled. I’ve found a healthy group of people who identify with what it’s like Osasuna with very strong values. For any coach, it is very facilitating. On the other hand, the fans have annoyed me in one way or another because with this heat that they give us, we have to be cold enough to set the pace of the meeting” he adds about his first impressions.
He Massanassa coach He does not forget the first 45 minutes of the season played at home against Leganés: “It is very difficult to maintain a level continuously during all the minutes that a match lasts. There is a rival in front who wants to win. Beyond the merit of the opponent, that day I had the feeling that we were not as we should be“But I saw a second half where the team didn’t fix the problem, but rather deserved to turn the situation around.”
Behind him goodbye from ArrasateOsasuna quickly announced Moreno as his successor: “The least important thing was the economic issue, it was whether he wanted to come or not. We are in a moment of trajectory that is not the most relevant thing, just like feeling full on a daily basis. Osasuna was going to bring me a lot of things personally and professionally.“.
The Reds fans focused their attention on the high intensity of the training sessions designed by Moreno: “I try not to fall into ups and downs, neither in victory nor in defeat. I work the same way because that’s how it’s supposed to be. We must do the same.
From the adaptation of new signatures, Bryan, Bretons and BoyomoMoreno appreciates the behavior of established people: “You build something that, when new people come in, the players who have been there longer show you the way. That makes everything easier.
“I was relatively calm because I saw the player and he was clear about it. Then there was the club, who also wanted the same thing, and the fans, a key element, always the same thing. It was a question of timing. “It was necessary to have tranquility on all sides and help the player to concentrate,” he notes about the renewal of Aimar Oroz until 2029.
Osasuna presented its new sports city this Tuesday, scheduled for 2027. “We can’t complain about the facilities, but it was necessary. The level of Tajonar’s professionals had to be accompanied by facilities compliant with this level” he said.
The team will play its second away game of the season on Monday with the poor statistics of its coach in everyone’s mind, who has only accumulated 2 wins out of 41 possible away from home. since he works first.
“You have to look at the context a bit. I trained in two recently promoted teams, which is a difficulty. For example, the numbers were extremely good at home for a recently promoted person,” he says of the figure earned during his time at Mallorca and Espanyol.
