Gudelj gets ‘wet’ with Lopetegui and Acua, and qualifies this year’s objective

Gudelj had a brief passage through the Sporting Lisbon, barely ten months on loan from the Guangzhou Evergrande, but left his mark in the neighboring country, won two titles (Cup and League Cup) and served to relaunch his career, which after a brief return to China settled in Sevilla FC, with which he has been crowned as European champion.

The Serbian international watches from a distance the great year that the ‘Leones’, leaders of the Liga NOS, are doing, and in an interview with maisfutebol he remembers his time at Sporting, he highlights the role of another ex-sports player at Sevilla FC, Acuña, or of a Lopetegui who also has a past in the neighboring country.

“Lopetegui is a great coach and a great motivator, always motivates and is tactically very strong. I have been here for almost two years and in this time we have scored many goals, we won the Europa League, we were one step away from reaching the Cup final … If this year we enter the Champions League again it will have been two very good years, “he acknowledged the midfielder of Sevilla.

Gudelj also appreciated the presence of a player who has played for Sporting in recent years and who has now taken over the left lane of Sevilla. “Acuña is a very good person. He is very calm, works a lot and has a lot of quality,” he assures, although he qualifies the calm: “Quiet off the field; in the field he is the typical Argentine, he is a player who leaves his heart on the pitch “.

The Serbian international was also challenged by two players he has faced recently and who appear facing each other at the top of world football, such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi. “Serbia-Portugal? The ball went in“He admitted about the recent controversy that he lived in the first person, before focusing on the two ‘cracks’.” Ronaldo and Messi are the two best in the world. Ronaldo is a machine on the pitch as he proved against Serbia. He is there until the last second and if he has a chance, usually the mark. So it was. We were lucky that the referee made a mistake. Messi, on the other hand, is very fast, turns very easy … they are the ‘top-top’, the best, “he said.

“Grateful” for the affection they continue to convey to him from Lisbon, Gudelj acknowledged that winning the Cup in Portugal was one of the “happiest” days of his life and that if this year they are league champions, he will live it as if he were too.

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