He spoke and said! Raphael Wicky, coach of Young Boys, is not worried about Viktor Gyökeres, Sporting’s forward who has been one of the main points of expression in the 2023/24 lion, but who does not scare the helmsman of the leader of the Swiss championship, he said after being questioned by Record in the press room at the Wankdorf Stadium, stage of the first leg of the Europa League playoff, which takes place this Thursday (5:45 pm in mainland Portugal, plus an hour in Switzerland).
“We know Sporting well, they are a very good team, an opponent that deserves a lot of respect, that has a striker who scores a lot of goals, but in my preparations, to my players, I don’t talk about individualities…. I have my analysts, Yes, they show videos to players about specific situations. I prefer to talk about the collective”, said the 46-year-old coach, also guaranteeing that the position of the green and whites in their internal competition – the Betclic League – is not scary: “It hasn’t changed the way we work at all.”
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The synthetic surface of the Swiss emblem’s enclosure was also a theme, but Wicky also relativized this, remembering that we are facing a generation of players who started their training precisely… on this type of surface.
“They always talk about it when they come here to play… The only thing I can say is that the majority of players grew up playing on synthetics, including in Portugal. It’s a surface that allows you to play football normally, I don’t have an answer for that, it’s what it is and we have to know how to deal with it”, he stressed, finishing: “The more technical players may notice a difference, but… it is also what it is.”