2023-10-29 00:56:02
Exercises with the elastic tape and with the readapter, races around the field, Irene Paredes did not stop working even though she would not go out to play against Italy. She is recovering from an injury and was not ready for this third day of the Nations League in Salerno. But she is expected for the match against Switzerland (Tuesday 31, 7:00 p.m., La1) and she is essential in her dressing room even though she does not wear her boots. “She is the leader of the group,” he admits. Laia Aleixandri «In the World Cup I learned a lot on and off the field. I try to be a sponge. And it is practically impossible to replace Irene Paredes. I try to take everything that she makes of her, there is a lot to learn from her », he completed. Laia Codina. And the two Laias were a resource that worked so that the Basque woman’s absence was less noticeable. Impeccable against Italy, they are a bet that he convinced.
The coach has given Aleixandri one of her hallmarks of the Spain she wants to build – the other is Lucía García. With Santa Coloma de Gramanet absent from the World Cup, despite being in the repentant group of the 15 mutineers, she has started all three matches of the new coaching staff. And with a good note. “I’m happy. I try to contribute what I do to the club every day. Montse gives me opportunities and I have total confidence in my teammates and in this team. I don’t know if it’s a second chance or not. [tras el motín], but I have continued doing the same, working day to day at the club and contributing what I can here. And I will not stop fighting for it,” expressed the Manchester City player, accepting the role of the absent Paredes with prominence behind and confident in her performances.
Codina was a fundamental piece in the world champion team in Australia (in place of Mapi León, who, this one, did not and will not get out of the mutiny) and debuted with Tomé in this window of the Nations League. «Happy with the ownership, it has been the first minutes since the World Cup. You have to take advantage of them because they don’t always happen,” admitted the one from Campllong (Girona). In fact, Thomas He had not counted on her in the first two calls and not in a first list for this match against Italy, but he waited for her to recover, and given the confirmed absence of Paredes, he requested her presence.
“With a change of coach,” he says codeine“It gives us players a plus, I don’t know why. The key now is that the ideas are very clear: attack, attack and be very aggressive and then we will defend. There is a lot of trust between us and in the quality there is. Real desire to go forward and steal balls. She had spoken out that we knew Montse perfectly, she is very close, she talks to you, she demands of you personally because she knows that she can demand of you, she knows that there is always one more point of improvement. As a player you know that if she demands you it is because she believes in you. “We are all feeling it a little.”
And if it is called the last, to the ownership,; on the bench, Ivana Andrés and María Méndez, the plants that Tomé had originally mentioned. Coach stuff. «Competition is always good. It makes us all better. “We are here to add and for the coach to decide,” the Girona native explained in the preview. And she stressed: “And especially if Laia is in that competition.” The other Laia.
They have shared a professional journey since they were little: both of them were 23 years old, they enjoyed more than one formative moment in the Catalan national team, and they grew up in the youth team of Barcelona. They separated their paths when Aleixandri decided to leave for the Atlético de Madrid in the 2017 season. Codina also left the Barça club for Milan in 2021. The reunion came on the pitch this Friday, at the Arechi stadium in Salerno, reunited in the center of the defense.
“Spain has Laias squared,” Aleixandri laughed. I’ve known her since we were 12 years old. “It’s nice to share these moments, compete in them and enjoy them.” This is how Codina remembered: «We are both from 2000, Catalan, we are both in England now, it has been many years since I played with her, and we have had few training sessions, but… Of course you come to think that you will play together again someday, but that “It has been like this, against Italy, my second family, in which I have grown as a person…, it is a day to mark.”
In nothing, just around the corner from this Fourth day of Nations League, the Laia will once again share the playing field, but on opposing fields. Due to circumstances of growth and opportunities, the two Laias decided to head to English lands. Aleixandri lived a season of adaptation in 2022 and now handles himself with ease and brilliance in the ranks of Manchester City. Codina landed at Arsenal in August. Before, on Tuesday the 31st, another opportunity to share the ball and defense again. The return of the great captain Irene Paredes is expected, but Tomé has a trusted duo with her label and the same name.
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