The cycle of life restarts in Balaídos. At the same time, it is not just any season. the celtic turns one hundred years old. In the dialectic of passion and pain that defines celestial existence, the club intends to give its fans a season free from the suffering that has been so common in recent years. Such a gift has been entrusted to Rafa Benítez. Perhaps the most prestigious coach that Celta has hired since Ricardo Zamora. His figure also determines a change of model. The board of directors no longer wants a proactive and attractive team, which they have repeatedly tried since their return to Primera, with luck or frustration. With Benítez the verb “compete” has been installed. The coach wants a ductile and versatile Celta, also capable of controlling the game from the reaction and order. He wants, in short, to emulate Osasuna, precisely his rival today.
La Liga, as is customary, starts when there are still three weeks left on the market. “You can find situations that change the dynamics,” Benítez resigns. Regarding signings, he seems much calmer than the environment. Quantify the missing reinforcements between two and four, but states: “The team is competitive, I’m happy with it.” As for possible exits, Veiga –and others like Patience– will be a useful piece until his situation is resolved. The message is clear to Career, fontan y Baeza, to which the club seeks assignments. They have been the first discards.
“For clarification, C.arlos, Miguel and Hugo are players with a record of the subsidiary in the dynamics of the first team”, Benítez also announced. The numbers confirm it. The coach drew up a list of 23 players. With them he will build the team that faces “the curse of the first game”. Nobody asked him, but Benítez already knew, in another example of his meticulousness: Celta, since their return to the First Division, has accumulated two wins, four draws and five losses in their league debuts. The last triumphant debut came 2-1 against Levante on August 23, always a happy day, with Berizzo in charge. It happened in 2015.
The Argentine is the only coach who has resisted three seasons on the bench in the Mouriño era. Just the time for which Benítez has signed, with an opposite script. Berizzo practiced the pressure to the man and the vertigo. He loved entropy. He advocated disorder. Benítez admits to both chasing and waiting; dominate with the ball and control without it. But he wants everything to obey a Cartesian plan.
“Osasuna is a well-known, aggressive, strong, difficult team. I can’t say that we will take possession because maybe they won’t let us. Or I can’t say that we are going to play on the counterattack because maybe we are superior in handling and we put them back”, he anticipates, while extolling: “Osasuna is a good example for us in terms of what we want to build ” .
The Pamplonicans, current cup runners-up and whose European place was confirmed through a legal battle, protect the continuity of their project. In Osasuna all the maneuvers are few in number and abundant in meaning. catch up He is celebrating his sixth season at the helm. They have lost important men like Aridane and above all Go away, returned to Barcelona. have incorporated Mojica, Catena, Moreno, Arnáiz y garcia de haro. Admiration for Osasuna, by the way, includes the failed attempt to recruit Fran Canal as a replacement for Antonio Chaves. The general director’s behavior, which he rectified after compromising his word, adds morbidity to the box photograph.
“We have few preseason references but it’s easier to prepare for the game, in quotes, because it’s a rival that has continuity,” Benítez meditated. Regarding his own, the coach has been establishing his ideas in friendlies. What is foreseeable is an alignment made up of Ivan Villar; Mingueza, Aidoo, Unai Núñez, Manu Sánchez; Carles Pérez, Tapia, Fran Beltrán, Bamba; Quotation marks and Larsen. From outside, a couple of doubts. Deer He has worked as a left back in some rehearsal of the week. The Beltrán-Tapia couple does not respond to that double pivot in which “one can defend more and the other can attack more”.
All the unknowns will begin to be resolved this afternoon, after Balaídos has sung “Oliveira dos cen anos” in chorus. Power has been handed over to Benítez. He, at the same time, assumes the urgency of the ecosystem: “I am the first to say that football projects can last a short time.” In the end, the only certainty invulnerable to any setback is the one that the fan recites like a creed: “I am celestial in joy, Celtic in suffering”.
2023-08-13 04:10:56
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