Marcelino García Toral: 'We play against a great rival, but we don't go defeated'
Villarreal coach Marcelino García Toral stated this Friday that his team is aware that they face a great rival this round in Atlético de Madrid, but guaranteed that they do not go to the match ‘defeated’. ‘It is a very difficult match and the numbers of the rival say so.
It is a solid team, with only 13 goals conceded, 10 clean sheets… It has an extraordinary squad and an extraordinary coach, but we go with the illusion of winning,’ said the Asturian in a press conference. Marcelino wished his team to be ’the most goal-scoring Villarreal in history,’ a possibility he attributed to the fact that the squad has ‘good footballers and an offensive mentality.’ For the Asturian, the keys to winning at the Metropolitano are in the areas and ‘personality’ with the ball.
