The Alavés coach surrenders to Xavi's Barça: "they have a great team"

Betting by the courage of his players, José Luis Mendilibar, technician of the Sportive Alavés, auguró that does not think that this Sunday his team finish by empatar to zero in front of the FC Barcelona, as it encouraged to his pupilos to look for the rival goal for at least annotate a goal and prejudice like this to the picture of Xavi Hernández in the day 22 of LaLiga, party that will contest in the Stadium of Mendizorroza.

During his appearance in press conference this Saturday, the Biscayan incidió in that "the normal" is that the culés do them goal by what sued to his team that has to "give the face". "The Barça has a big team and between which play and those that are in bench can do two teams. The youngsters are going out well and the mature people is helping them", expressed the technician, that thought that perhaps the signings "have not given the tone that expected ".

"They can not cry by the team that have", affirmed the one of Zaldibar, that did special emphasis in the intensity to the time that ensured that the Athletic Club had been an example of what have to do. "My teams always have been intense, it is necessary to be convinced of this because if you begin to think give steps to backwards, but if we go convinced that it is necessary to be attempts and tighten, will have possibilities", manifested.

Likewise, the technician analysed how will have to act his directed in front of the Barcelona picture: "it Is truth that to play tightening up does lacking courage because you look to backwards and see a lot of space. It is necessary to think in the space that remains of the defence to the contrary goal and not thinking in the space that there is behind". Questioned by the fault of goal of his team, recognised that they have to do a lot of more occasions and explained that they have not taken advantage of too much the strategy and this "helps you when you are dense in the game".

Disadvantage in the aerial game

However, Mendilibar knows well the big weak point of the team of Xavi Hernández and how can hurt him: "To see if we are able to generate this because the Barcelona is a team that suffers in the unemployed balloon". About the veteran defence of the Barça, answered that it can be missing intermediate people between the group of youngsters and the most greater, but remembered that to Dani Alves have it fichado now with 38 years and goes them to give result.