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“I feel good and happy with my successful leg. Let’s say those goals are a reward for our work since the beginning of the season. Each player has their own moment: someone beats before, someone beats later. Now is my time – with fksuduva.lt spoke X.Auzmendi, 24, who has already scored 5 goals and has given 6 assists this year. – I’m in good sports shape, I also feel good physically. I’m glad it’s my time now, I’ll try to keep it going. But the most important thing is that the team wins ”.
The Basque had to test himself in various positions this year. X.Auzmendi, who usually plays in the middle or in the safe, also put himself to the test in the winger position this year.
Photo by Vytautas Kuralavičius / Xabi Auzmendi
“Last season I played in the offensive midfielder position, I feel good in the winger position, but I have never played as a winger,” said the “Sūduva” player. – However, I don’t feel any difficulty with that. If a coach needs me to play defense and thinks I am in a position to do so, no problem. All footballers want to play as much as possible, I will try to show that I am worth it ”.
Sūduva currently has 58 points in the Optibet A League and is 6 points ahead of Vilnius Žalgiris, who played 2 fewer games.
“We have had injuries lately, there have been more difficult moments, but I think the team is working well and improving,” Xuzmendi said. – I think the UEFA European Conference League match has given us a lot of confidence. We’ve had good times before, but now, I think, we’re at a higher point. We can fight all opponents, win and achieve our goals. We will definitely do our best to achieve ours. “
The town of Marijampolė will play the next match on September 22. 7 pm ie with “Žalgiris”. This will be the quarter-final of the Hegelmann LFF Cup. In the Optibet A League, the teams shared the victory this year: in Vilnius, Marijampolė won 2: 1, and in Marijampolė – Vilnius 2: 0.
“It’s a thing of the past, it was a completely different stage of the season, but of course we need to learn from those games,” said X. Auzmendi. – In the second game, which we lost, we started well, we attacked, but suddenly we missed 2 goals very similar to each other. It was a big hit. But that is a thing of the past and we have tried to learn from our mistakes. The rivals are, of course, strong, so we have to be focused for the full 90 minutes. Decisive things can happen at any time during such a match. Waiting 90, maybe 120, difficult minutes. “
Photo by Vytautas Kuralavičius / Keisuke Honda at “Sūduva” training.
The famous Japanese Keisuke Honda is already participating in Sūduva training. According to Basque, it is beneficial for all players to work with such an experienced teacher.
“Nobody has any doubts about his abilities, he is a first-rate player who has competed in the Milan World Championships and other well-known clubs. We did not expect more new players to appear, so the news of the arrival of K. Honda It was a real surprise, X. Auzmendi recalled. – Some players who did not know it with everyone did not believe when we said he would come here. It seems to me that K. Honda is well prepared, I have no doubt that he will help the team. more important is to be the best possible “Sūduvai”, but it is interesting and good for all to play together with footballers of this level “.
X.Auzmendi has not missed recently the opportunity to visit the world futsal championship held in Lithuania. He saw the battles in Kaunas together with Nacho Cases.
“I have already seen 4 games. I had not been very interested in futsal before, but I really enjoyed it, said the safe. – I was very impressed with how different the teams are, different tactics and ways of playing. It was really interesting. No I have my favorites, I don’t care who those champions are, it was fun to watch the game. I hope to see more World Cup games. “
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