Valladolid: Pacheta: “There are many ways to go up, but we are going to achieve it”

CLess and less is missing, three days in particular, for the end of the regular season in LaLiga SmartBank and Pacheta is confident that Real Valladolid will achieve its goal, either by the short way or in some possible ‘playoffs’. MARCA interviews the blanquivioleta coach in the decisive stretch of the course, with the team two points from the direct promotion zone after his victory in Ipurua.

Almera and Eibar have been more consistent, that’s why they are ahead; let’s think about us, the others who do what they want

Ask. How is the team after winning the match-ball against Eibar?

Response. Well, I see him very much alive, ready for what is to come.

P. Was the triumph in the field of a direct rival a liberation?

A. It was confirmation of what we are doing right. We recovered from the very hard setback against Real B and confirmed the feeling of being better than the rival.

Q. How hard was the previous defeat?

R. The hard part is the result, of 10 games playing as you win nine. I will always defend the fact that if you are better than the rival, I deserve the victory. Just as in Miranda we were not and we did not deserve it, against Real B, yes. We have more debt on our backs from better games with little result than bad ones. I am very satisfied with how we are, in an interesting situation for these last three days.

Q. But if the team has been much better in many games… why are Almera and Eibar ahead in the standings?

R. Because they have been more constant and that gives a reward. We have had more ups and downs and that has punished us. I can not claim the player to have played better, s individual errors that are solvable. That’s the only thing we can work on. In the global calculation, the team shows signs that it competes well, better against the teams in the upper zone.

P. You are usually more critical in victories than in defeats…

R. What I try is that the victories do not deceive us, they are liars. A victory cannot hide what we have done wrong, but neither should defeat weigh us down too much. I can claim the path, everything that depends on the work and what we train. The result comes from many details that are not workable. We’ve been seven games without conceding and then we’ve conceded eight in a row. We are the same. There are things that don’t have a logical explanation and you don’t know why they happen.

P. Would these four days with Sergio Len have been different?

R. It is an alternative. We will never know if it would have been very different with him. I do have to demand that the sanction be resolved much faster. It is not normal for me to make a mistake in October and it takes six months, it is unimaginable. If this is the path of justice, then it must be shortened. That they punish when they commit it, not six months later. Furthermore, it is disproportionate to the consequences of the act itself.

P. His return can make you change the system or are you looking for stability with the 1-4-3-3?

R. It will depend on the parties and how the people are. The players will tell me and also the rival that comes to us. We try to take advantage of the virtues of footballers. Now, for example, we are taking advantage of the fact that Anuar is entering in the 60th minute and is changing the games.

P. That the team does not depend on itself is an extra pressure?

R. No, I try not to transfer that to them. We have to beat Ponferradina, but then we have to keep winning. Everyone has to win. We have to mentalize that we have to win the next one, there is no other way. If you’re up you’re scared because they catch you and if you’re down you’re on the hook because you can stay out… You always have to win, there’s not much difference when it comes to preparing for matches.

Q. What is more difficult, to win all three games or for Eibar to puncture one?

R. Let’s think about ourselves, the others who do what they want. We look at them out of the corner of our eyes, of course, but we are going to focus on trying to win Ponferradina this Saturday.

P. Is Ponferradina the toughest rival of those that remain to Real Valladolid?

R. Yes, but because it is the first to arrive. Then the others play and they will be too. It is a team that is playing the promotion playoffs. Probably, then the other two rivals (Ibiza and Huesca) do not play anything.

Q. Do you prefer to play before or after your direct rivals?

R. I don’t care, I have to be on my own. If they play before and have lost, we leave anxious and clouded. If they win, we’re sorry… You win and win and win and win. how do i win? Concentrating on the road and trying to improve what I have weak. That brings me closer to victory.

Q. On Saturday, when the game is over, are you going to sit down and watch the Ibar?

R. If it coincides, yes, but I am only concerned about mine. We’re going to try to look out of the corner of our eyes, of course, but we’re going to win first, you’ll see how comfortable we are.

P. Is this team prepared to face a playoff if it does not go up directly?

R. We, at the moment, are focused on the first objective. As we see, we will prepare ourselves for one thing or another. This team is ready for big and important games, of course.

P. Is Real Valladolid going to be promoted?

R. There are many ways to go up, but I think we will achieve it. We are in conditions of assaulting the First Division, I firmly believe it.

Q. A relegation locker room is always a difficult locker room. And this one has had non-sports issues, some have transcended and others have not… How complicated is it to carry it?

R. I know that too many things have happened that should not happen, issues that we have had to go out and settle, even at a press conference. In other places it hadn’t happened to me so seriously, but all the changing rooms have their way of handling it. Some need more force and others do not.

P. The season is being very exhausting… Can you guarantee your continuity no matter what happens?

R. The future you can never know. Today, with everything I have, I have signed here for two years and I would be happy and delighted to fulfill them, without a doubt. It is a very very interesting project in which I feel very comfortable, respected, loved and identified with. I am delighted.