행복하지 않은 셀타의 코치는 선수들에게 많은 것을 요구합니다 - 풀 리포트

Paco Herrera was very intense during today’s session, and he transmitted this unhappiness to Celta’s players. Maybe the reason of this mood was due to Insa’s yesterday injury that will force Herrera to play with the B plan. But if Insa’s injury was not enough, two more players had problems today, goalkeeper Javi Varas and captain Borja Oubina.  Varas’ injury seems to be taking longer than expected to heal completely, and if confidence is not total, Herrera will have to play with Sevilla’s game hero Sergio Alvarez. If we have in mind that Varas only trained yesterday and today with the goalkeepers and that today he left the field before the session was over, all clues seems to point to Sergio as the starting goalkeeper for Saturday’s match.

But bigger problems appeared today, as Borja Oubina did not appear on the training field. Last Monday Oubina seemed to have had some kind of muscle problem, and ended up the session jogging while his team mates completed the session. Nothing seemed to indicate that was anything else than a minor pain, as yesterday Oubina completed the session. On the other hand, and due to Oubina injury record, Celta’s coach has always been very delicate with the condition of his captain, and one possibility is that they asked Borja not to train today and work on the gym and the physiotherapist. Until further news, I would count on Oubina to start in Madrid, but again, we will have to wait until Celta releases the medical report for the team. This report will also let us update Natxo Insa’s status and possibilities to play on Saturday, which are the moment, seem very vague.

Training wise, as I said before, Paco Herrera was very intensive, putting a lot of pressure on his players. After the physical part of the session, that, for second day in a row was conducted under thick mist, Herrera focused once again on the passing and pressing, and transition from offense to defence. Herrera was clearly not happy as he stopped the exercise to lecture his players, shouting clearly that if they cannot handle that pressure, they won’t be able to handle´s Bernabeu’s.

After this part of the session, and in half court, Paco Herrera prepared a two team’s practice game in which he lectured his players once again after stopping the exercise twice. Herrera is trying to make his players think fast, and during this two weeks has not been allowing them to do more than 1 touch before passing the ball, making it very clear that you cannot relax one bit against Real Madrid or they will make you pay for it.

Once the session was over, and before the players headed to the dressing room, Herrera lectured his players once again making it very clear he expects more from his players in the next days before the match.

Tomorrow it will be first session with all the available players, including MKD and Park, who will have two training sessions to change his mentality and focus on Real Madrid’s game.