“Spain’s second team will be favorites in the Euro finals”
Sylvinho, Albania’s head coach, commented on the preview of this Monday’s match in Düsseldorf against Spain, a team and country he praised: “It’s very exciting to play in this match. Spain welcomed me and my family. “I know a lot of people there, it’s a brilliant team with a great coach.”
“On the other hand, I’m happy to lead Albania, we’ve been through a lot to get here in the group of death and now we have to face Spain in the last match and we have a great opportunity. We will try. The second Spanish team can play in the EuroCup final and become favorites. We need to think about what we can do. You’ll leave motivated. I hope the game turns out good.”
Difficult opponent. “Spain has its own DNA to maintain ownership of the game. But they also have direct players and on the wing they are dangerous, they have quality players and a lot of fast players. I have been watching them for these months and they are very well organized. Spain are definitely the best in the group as they beat Croatia and Italy. But we have ambitious players and we hope to show a good game.”
What he saw against Italy. “I went with Zabaleta to Gelsenkirchen. Spain is a team that impresses, De La Fuente did a great job. They also defend well. They lost just one match to Scotland in the qualifying stage. But my players will go out on the field and give everything they can, our country is proud of us. This is the second major tournament we are playing in, so at times we lost against Italy and Croatia. There must be good and bad phases.”
Grade. “I’m happy. A lot of people said they’d put us four in the first, five in the second, but we didn’t perform against Spain. Let’s play. We’re happy. They let us get here. Anything can happen in 90 minutes. ‘Let’s dream.’
Sanction to Daku. “We only want to talk about football. This is our business. UEFA’s decision looks like this. “We don’t waste energy on anything else.”
Gimshiti: “Daku made a mistake, but he apologized”
Albanian national team captain Berat Gimshiti performed in Düsseldorf together with Sivigno: “All the players are ready for the challenge tomorrow, we still have the opportunity to qualify from the group and try to surprise Spain. What are they going to play with the second team? This doesn’t affect anything. “We know who we’re dealing with.”
The defender spoke about the two-match disqualification of his teammate Mirlind Daku: “Daku made a mistake, but he apologized. I’m not here to talk about the fines imposed by UEFA. “There will be a lot of our fans on the field and we have to believe in ourselves.”
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