“Real Madrid is coming off two defeats in the League, that makes them more dangerous”

The RC Celta coach, Claudio Giráldez, admitted this Thursday that the situation that Real Madrid is experiencing in LaLiga EA Sports adding “two consecutive defeats”, against Osasuna (2-1) and Getafe (0-1), “makes them more dangerous” in a match that Kylian Mbappé will miss, a player who “has no substitute in the world because he is unique.”

“They are coming from two defeats, which is not something normal or usual for a team like Real Madrid or Barcelona; that makes them even more dangerous,” acknowledged the Vigo coach in the press conference prior to the match against the white team.

A confrontation that will be played this Friday due to the change in schedule – first set on Sunday, later on Saturday and finally on Friday -. “These are LaLiga EA Sports things,” said Giráldez, who pointed out that “it is not ideal” for them to change, although it seems to him that it was “adequate for both teams.” “I think it makes more sense to play on Friday between Sunday and Friday, even though they played on Monday, there is enough time,” he insisted.

“We arrived well, with good feelings from everyone, with a lot of desire to face this game and this stretch of the season. Hopefully we will play a good game tomorrow like the ones we have been doing lately,” added the light blue coach who confirmed Pablo Durán’s absence due to injury.

Despite Real Madrid arriving with two league defeats in a row, Giráldez sees them as “favorites because they are one step above the others.” “It is difficult to compete against teams like Real Madrid, Barça or Atlético de Madrid. If those teams are perfect and do things well, it is very difficult. What we have to do is have our highest level to be able to compete against them,” he indicated.

But in the first leg “it also seemed impossible” that the light blue team could win at the Santiago Bernabéu and they achieved the three points. “Very few times in our history have we won both games in the same year and that means that it is rare for Celta to beat Real Madrid. Hopefully we can achieve it knowing that it is very difficult that we are not in the same game,” he continued.

“This means that we have to be very good to be able to win it and I assure you that if I win it, I am going to enjoy it a lot, I am going to celebrate it a lot, but we know that it is very difficult. At the moment I have not managed to beat Real Madrid here,” he pointed out.

In that match in the white fiefdom, Xabi Alonso was the coach of Real Madrid, a position now in the hands of Álvaro Arbeloa amid doubts about the results. “My utmost respect to both coaches and to focus on ourselves, on what we have to do. Time will tell if the decision to change coaches was a good one, if Arbeloa is going to mark an era at Real Madrid or not,” he said.

“I would change for them. I would like to be second in the League and in the Champions League round of 16. They are going to fight for the two most important titles, probably the ones that the Spanish League teams can compete for right now. He is a coach who has been around for a short time and I suppose he will be at that moment when the team goes to his idea, of mutual knowledge between players. With all coaches, a process is required, a time,” he confessed.

In addition, Real Madrid will travel to Vigo with several casualties such as the top scorer in the First Division, Kylian Mbappé. “Evidently, a player like Mbappé has no substitute in the world because he is a unique player, with very special characteristics. Gonzalo can play out there, or Vinícius up top, or players with other resources, with other ways of hurting you. Probably when Mbappé is there, you are less burdened by the finishing center and with Gonzalo they will do it more,” he concluded.