GBattered by defeats in Prague and Lisbon, the Swiss coach faces his first crisis after leading Switzerland to the World Cup. Murat Yakin he has not held back praise for Gavi.
Game: “There were two away games with serious defensive problems. What happened hurts, especially in Portugal. We haven’t been consistent in defensive tasks. We haven’t had any luck either. We want to do things better”.
reviews; “The atmosphere is very good. We come from a very high stage of play in qualifying for the World Cup. But I think we have not played badly, we have lacked things and we have to measure our efforts against this calendar, we have made changes to be better now”.
System and injuries:”We are missing many defenses, we have changed the goalkeepers… We are missing some automatisms behind. Let’s see how some players are, we have to wait until the last moment to know what we can do, especially in the back. The system depends on which players are available. We don’t have 15 or 20 players of the same level, like Portugal and Spain, who can change the whole team. But we have our options.”
Gavi: “It’s incredible that at that age he’s able to handle the concepts of the game like that, assimilate so many things at only 17 years old. Hopefully we’ll be able to find a way so that he doesn’t hurt us. But it’s impressive, he’s 17 years old! “.
Goalkeeper: “We will make changes. Let’s see who plays goalkeeper. Everything in its time.”
Geneva: “What we want is to turn the situation around. We want to be effective and turn the way we started.”
Strong point of your team: “In this process we lack the intensity we had to go to the World Cup. But the big goal is the World Cup. We have to promote the idea and protect the players. Our great virtue is the spirit we have, that’s why I’m so positive” .
Win over Spain or reach the quarterfinals in Qatar: “Both things. The objective is the World Cup, but there is no better way to prepare for it than trying to beat Spain.”
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