We are confident of avoiding relegation: Jonathan Silva

In an exclusive interaction with DT Next, the 25-year-old Argentine spoke about the new manager Javier Aguirre and how the team’s morale has improved since his arrival.

Yeah well, everyone knows we have the same squad we had last season but that we have not found the identity that we had so clear last season. We struggled a lot at the beginning, but the important thing is that right now, we are doing much better. The team has found that happiness on the pitch, that confidence and that solidity that had been lost at the beginning.  

These are things that each coach brings… Javier is someone that’s very involved with the group and very involved individually with each player. He takes care of every little detail. Him and his staff. I believe that they came in at just the right time to turn around all the things we were doing wrong.

The confidence. That’s fundamental right now, it dictates how you take to the pitch and start games. We feel it on the pitch, we take to the pitch thinking that we are going to play well. After that, the result can go either way, but we are convinced that anyone will have a tough time beating us.

No, as Javier [Aguirre] always says, we try to look at ourselves and at our work and obviously we want to leave the wrong end of the table as quickly as possible.

Well, as I always say, us defenders and wingbacks need the team to play well around us and we’ve markedly improved. That’s helped us to improve our performances a lot.

I really hope we do. We’re optimistic and have confidence that we will.