Andres Garcia interview: New full Bek Aston Villa on his error in Liverpool, a big step and improvement under Unai emery | Football news
Aston Villa VS Liverpool, and it is not an exaggeration to say that this is the biggest game of Andres Garcia’s career. He made two strong running in the right side, cheered on him full of piles under the light. Aston Villa grows into her.
Then, that happens. A stray passage. Intercepted by Diogo Jot. Fined Mohamed Salah. Garcia puts his hands in the head and then bows in anxiety. Villa Captain John McGinn runs a young defender to show support. The crowd of Villa Park also responded soon.
“It was a mistake,” says Garcia Sky Sports. “The mistake every player will make in his career. John McGinn approached me, but I noticed the support of all my teammates. When they saw me at that moment, they supported me very quickly.”
He adds: “I also noticed the support of fans, because they immediately clapped me to cheer me up again. We are professionals, we must be able to deal with such mistakes. In the end, we have and we have a winning mentality.”
This mentality is one of the reasons why Garcia convinced Villa. The supporters saw this near the Premier League leader. He not only started the game well, but was impressively overgroup after the mistake to contribute to pulsing 2-2.
“I knew I had to recover quickly because I had to help the team. You have to get up quickly and have a good mentality.” That attitude that impressed his new teammates – even those experienced as former Real Madrid star Marco Asensio.
Asensio, speaking of Garcia, she says Sky Sports: “The truth is that I didn’t know him, but now I can say that he has a big career in front of him. I have made a lot of them in my career. In the end they help you grow, make better decisions.
“It all comes down to a mentality. I see the job he invests every day, as he tries to improve, work in the gym and in the field, with staff, desire to continue learning and growing. This is basic but not all players and he has it.
It is worth remembering how fast this happens for a young full back. With three goals in the last five appearances for Levante, they are all spectacular, Garcia has arrived in Villa at the height, but the Premier League is still a huge jump in career.
His debut followed against the great Brazilian striker Matheus Cunha in Wolves, before a strenuous test against Tottenham’s son Heung-Mom, Villa Park. Then Jot came. The weekend brings out the odds that it will come to face with Cole Palmer and Chelsea.
“It’s a huge change,” Garcia admits. “A step from being in another division to one of the best leagues, if not the best, is noticeable. The players are all physically, everyone is fast and have quality. The decisions are much faster and you have to get used to it.”
Garcia, 22, has already shown impressive physicality. At 6’1 “it has a wide frame for a full back and can handle it. But it can also move. Fairy fans already get used to the sight of hitting it up and down on that right side.
Currently, Garcia is an average of more crosses in 90 minutes than any other Premier League player. The wing when he is very young, he still has a speed to steal the yard on his opponent and insert dangerous balls into the criminal frame. Can create and suffocate.
“I would describe myself as a full back that helps a lot in defense, but it can also be a weapon in the attack, someone who can generate imbalances with one on those and, above all, a good transition. It’s more or less.
Despite his mistake against Liverpool, he has been unusually sure about the use of the ball so far, finishing over 92 percent of the aisle. But there is also an adventure in his game and maybe she will appear that side of Garcia as his confidence develops.
For Levantea, his shot from the edge of the box was from the edge of the box, followed by his equalizer in the 95th minute against Huesce, a curved effort into the upper corner of the left foot. He ran 80 meters against Tenerife before he found exactly the same place.
Clearly there is much more. In an interview with Unai Emery about Garcia’s influence, and especially how he responded to the failure to make that wrong passage, the mansion manager made it clear that all part of the player learning process is.
Message of the boss? “Be free, every day,” Emery explains. “Training, preparing, playing matches. He has potential. It will take him time. But now he helps us. And I am very optimistic with his mentality. With his mentality he will do it his way.”
He adds, “We know, we can see, there is still work to do. But he competes very well with his players’ characteristics. Sometimes, of course, we think it will take him time to get better on the level we are well.
With Emery’s guidelines, there is every reason that these performances are expected to improve. Garcia says he is still in a “adaptation state”, but fresh from a particularly long -lasting video meeting – even according to Emery’s extraordinary standards – he learns quickly.
“It’s a very detailed coach,” Garcia says. “He really likes to work on the video, where he can see our mistakes and where he can give us tools to find the easiest way to overcome the opposition pressure and come to the opposition penalty area.
“He wants to create a super compact team with a very clear structure. It shows us a way of playing, and his staff is all united in that idea, working with us individually. It is very competitive with the hunger that you need to achieve your goals.”
And Garcia’s goals? “My coaching staff has already been told that they are with me, working with me every day to help me improve my game. I believe I can achieve a lot and grow my game here. The club has great aspirations and we will fight for them.”
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