Why the coach of Seville is wary of Standard

Europa League

Pablo Machin, the Sevillian coach, is wary of reconversions Liege.

How to understand that Seville belongs to another world than the Standard? It is enough to see the importance of the local delegation which arrived, at the end of the afternoon, with Sclessin. Twelve people working solely for the communication of the club made the trip to Liege, all roads of the same godbade comma.

Spanish journalists, for their part, were more interested in the name of the Belgian television channel which broadcast the match of the Champions League between Paris Saint-Germain and Liverpool than by the base eleven that will align Michel Preud'homme this Thursday night.

However, Pablo Machin, the local coach, did not give the impression of underestimating his next European opponent. "It will be a different match than the one we played in Sevilla, we know that the Standard can quickly get the ball back thanks to fast strikers, Sevilla must not snub the Liege and we will have to be faithful to our reputation"

he says.
"We know that Standard is not the same team depending on whether it's playing at home or away, we've been warned, playing for a point, everything can go very quickly in Europe and when you think you're in control of a situation, everything can change very quickly … "

This security is not just a mark of politeness. The Andalusians chained the good results but their game is less attractive and especially less domineering. This does not prevent them from even truster the head of the championship. "This ranking does not surprise me especially because we work every day to win games, and now we did not know we would be so fast in first place, we will just try to keep it as long as possible."