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The Serbian-Spanish Veljko Paunovic, coach of Chivas de Guadalajara, He affirmed this Wednesday that the hunger to win and transcend has led his team to be among the eight best of the last two tournaments.
“Hunger characterizes this team, wanting more, nobody relaxes, nobody ever gives up and at the same time nobody thinks they have achieved something, the football process is something continuousYou always have to look for improvement and never think that we have achieved our best version,” he said at a press conference.
Guadalajara, runner-up in the league, is leader of the Apertura tournament with two consecutive victories and six points.
Under the sports direction of the Spanish World Cup player Fernando Hierro, Chivas had one of its best performances in the last years at the end of the regular season in third place in the Clausura and play their first final in six years.
Paunovic He highlighted the progress that the squad has had in the offensive although he accepted that the forcefulness and the assembly of the plays in front of the goal must be fine-tunedin addition to greater vigilance and the mark in attack to prevent inattention from jeopardizing a favorable marker.
“Sometimes our concentration drops, therefore more maturity, have more urgency and prevail in the face of possible adversity or reaction that the rival may have, this happened to us in the final in the second part, I have already spoken about this and I feel responsible, but it has to help us learn, it is not worth acknowledging mistakes but rather working on them and eradicating them,” he said.
The rojiblanco team will receive Necaxa this Thursday, in the last game before their participation in the Leagues Cup, the tournament in which the clubs of the Major League Soccer and Liga MX from July 21 to August 19.
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Before, next Sunday, Chivas will host Athletic Bilbao in the second leg of the Gernika Tree Trophy. The coach announced that this match will mark the debut of midfielder Erick Gutiérrez who arrived from PSV Eindhoven.
“He is evolving very well in his physical form. Now he is already participating in the work of the group and his technical quality, his decision-making, his positioning can be seenhis placement will help us a lot, ”he said.
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