Almeria manager issues warning to Barcelona ahead of clash: “Not here to give it away”

Winless in their last three games, Barcelona will be out for blood against Almeria on Wednesday night at Montjuic. The Blaugranas may have problems aplenty, but there is not much sympathy they can claim considering the opposition’s situation.

Almeria are currently placed rock-bottom on the league standings with just five points in 17 league games. They have lost on twelve occasions and are yet to taste victory in the event.

Speaking to the media ahead of his team’s clash against Barcelona, Almeria manager Gaizka Garitano maintained faith in his men to capitalise on the Catalans’ poor form and urged them to take all three points from Xavi’s men.

“We are going to play against a great team, in a difficult scenario, but it is also true that we are in all the games and competing and everything.”

“That’s the idea, being able to continue doing it, being able to go against a team that is very good, to a difficult stadium and be able to compete,” he added.

Garitano went on with words of inspiration to the Almeria dressing room, saying they were capable of frustrating even the best teams.

“Right now we are not here to give away any game or make it easy for anyone. With that idea, we’re going to go.”

Garitano then backed his words by giving the example of his team’s recent clash against Atletico Madrid which ended in a narrow 2-1 defeat and urged his team to dish out a similar high-intensity display.

“The other day we faced Atlético, we went to Getafe, we went to difficult fields and we competed in all of them and tomorrow doesn’t have to be the exception.”

“We have to go look for a good result tomorrow and we have to show, in the situation, we are in, get that self-love, that courage, that desire to compete and, in scenarios like that, if you don’t give one hundred per cent you already know what you have,” he concluded.

Source: SPORT