Lopetegui shows his chest at Sevilla: “The Champions League is the...

Sevilla return to the Champions League after winning the Europa League championship last year, their favorite competition, which they have already won six times. Lopetegui’s team returns to the maximum continental tournament two seasons later and debuts against Chelsea, one of the giants of the Premier League.

Lopetegui, who appeared in the previous match with Suso, revealed that matches like these are the ones we like to play and that being able to play the Champions League is the reward for good work in the past year: “We are very excited about starting the competition more great in the world. It costs a lot to be able to play the Champions League. It is the award we did last season. We want to enjoy it by going to the maximum and with the maximum aspiration against a great rival who will force us to be at our best level “

“Every game is complicated in any competition. And even more so if we talk about Chelsea and the UEFA Champions League. We are focused on making a good game. They have a great team and great players. Tomorrow they will force us to give our best version in all of them. the aspects. I face this match with enthusiasm, with desire and ambition before a competition as beautiful as this one “

“The preseason has not been normal for any team, but especially abnormal for Sevilla FC. It is useless to look at the context. We have to try to occupy ourselves and look at the best options. We are the team that has had the least vacation of the whole football world

Loepetegui also wanted to defend Rakitic, who is not going through his best moment: “I do not make the personal evaluations of my players in public. We are delighted that Ivan is with us. He is getting to know us and we are also getting to know him. He will help us, I have no doubts, during the season “

Chelsea does not trust Sevilla

For its part, the Sevilla rival does not want to talk about favoritism. Lampard placed the Spanish team in the elite of Europe and constantly repeated the term respect: “Lopetegui is a very good coach. Sevilla comes from a very important success with the victory in the Europa League and has proven to be a very difficult team. We respect to Sevilla and we know that we must be at a high level to overcome them. “

One of the team captains, César Azpilicueta, also wanted to praise Lopetegui’s team and warned about their potential: “When they don’t have the ball they push hard, they attack fast … I know Julen from my time in the national team and I know he will to be difficult. Sevilla already eliminated Wolves and Manchester United last season. They have the level to compete against Premier League teams “,