Real Sociedad midfielder Xabi Prieto, coach Jagoba Arrasate and striker Antoine Griezman trained at the Stade de Gerland on Monday (19 August) ahead of their UEFA Champions League play-off against Lyon, which will the Spaniard’s first European match for ten years.
Xabi Prieto, midfielder, said: “Well I don’t know if this match is the most important of my career. Actually I hope that the best will be waiting for me in the future. But it will, that would means that we went successfully through this tie. However, I’m really hoping to go into the Champions League amongst the best teams in Europe, and also do it as captain and after the past few years in the second division, that helps you to see the real colour of things. I’m grateful to live this great moments with team of my heart.”
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Jagoba Arrasate, Real Sociedad coach, said: “If we do well in the second match and tomorrow, we’ll become relaxed. I’m sure we going to have a surprise in store. Then we know two games are ahead, hundred eighty minutes. But we are quite sure we have play well in two games to go through. So there is no other way but to do our best tomorrow.”
Antoine Griezman, forward, said: “Olympique Lyonnais are the team that I used to go and watch with my father. They are my favourite team since I was a boy. In Spain, people consider them a great team, because they have done well in Europe and in Ligue 1 which they have won many times.”
