“It’s amazing, we are in a cloud, we want to continue dreaming”

“My fans now are Girona, I am very happy, they have welcomed me as if they were at home. But what I have felt from the Rayo fans is incredible. They have remembered my grandmother with a banner. It is one of the most special days “. Before addressing the lead and Girona’s fifth comeback in the League, Míchel wanted to put words to his emotion. He entered Vallecas applauded and left Vallecas even more applauded, despite Rayo’s defeat (1-2).

“This is amazing, we are in a cloud, we want to continue dreaming. The players ask us for this. “This is deserved, it is not a flash in the pan,” said the Girona coach, revealing the message he conveyed to his players before starting the game.

“We have to set our ceiling, not others, we must train to fulfill this dream. I have talked about Aleix who is going to the national team, naturalize this, give it meaning that your team has taken you there. If we give it naturalness and the We set our expectations and dreams, because they will come true. These do not generate fear or uncertainty. Dream and work for that dream,” he added.

“Winning here after Rayo has gone eight games without losing was very difficult. It has been a great game. I have enjoyed and suffered at the same time. Now, the players are going on vacation for 15 days as leaders and our fans are going to sleep more. Our challenge now is to reach 53 points,” declared Míchel, recalling that Girona now has 34 points out of a possible 39.

“Vallecas is my neighborhood, they have given me everything. The banner has been an incredible surprise, my grandmother was very important to me,” admitted an emotional Míchel who saw that scene in the stands of his house. “María’s grandson, welcome to the neighborhood, Míchel,” it read. “This is the game I never wanted to play. The game against Rayo. And as a coach it was a nice game, but I don’t really want to face Rayo. I’m happy because we are leaders,” he acknowledged.

Praise for veterans

“Stuani, Juanpe, Portu and Bernardo are the ones who lead the way in the locker room. They are the heart of the team and they can lead us to make real history,” said Míchel, who praised his team’s fifth comeback in the League. “It’s outrageous, it’s incredible what this team is doing because Rayo, in the first 15 minutes, played incredible. But the final half hour of that first half was also incredible,” he said.

“What these players are doing is something very big, very big, they are very connected. It’s amazing. They have six consecutive victories away from home, something that only Madrid and Barça have done, the Girona coach recalled, proud of the response of his players.

“We are going to dream about the maximum. The leadership is deserved, the praise is deserved. But the important thing is to train well tomorrow. This team has been training well for three years. That is the only thing I ask them not to lose. Lose games, yes; not that”. In this way, Míchel recalled that “there is no one on the team who is disconnected, no one” so he doesn’t set big goals. “I don’t want to put a ceiling on it, I don’t want to put it on. I want to win the next game against Athletic,” the coach added.

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“I’ve been enjoying my day-to-day life here for three years. And the people, especially Quique and the management, value me for my day-to-day life. They let me work well. The level of demand? You see Stuani and Juanpe training and not Savio can sleep. You can’t sleep! They see it!”, stressed Míchel, who experienced a special afternoon, full of emotions in Vallecas. “The players feel that today they can beat any rival. And that makes you strong, very strong. I give my team an A+ in everything. And in the 13 more games, we have done it everywhere.” and rivals”.

That is why he raises the bar to be in the last third of the championship with options “to fight to be in Europe”, after recognizing that Sávio has only suffered muscle discomfort. “In the talk I told the players that it is very great to see how happy they are to see Aleix in the national team.”