Inaki Saez Quotations

We've always been a team which, by it's very nature, never tries to draw. I prefer another style, our style, which is to always try to win.

Scoring the first goal is a weapon we have to use,

So I'm going to reveal something to you. As there is a public debate, I had one too with my assistant coaches and we have decided, for the first time, that we will not reveal the lineup of the team before the match.

So I have put another man in at the back.

My experience of international tournaments is that central defenders always receive the most punishment, and in the final -- which is what we aim to reach -- you are always short of defenders,

Reyes is a man of the future for the national side.

If they go a goal behind things change. They then have to change their style of play because they're more used to playing on the counter-attack.

Greece will be really tough. They are not spectacular but they always create a lot of problems for everyone.

Greece are very comfortable playing at 0-0 and when they're 1-0 up and we have to be careful,

If Spain wants to do something in this European championship, it has to demonstrate that it is strong in these moments,

He has played for us before at left back and has been performing well for Real Madrid in the center of defense, so it is good to know that we have someone available who can cover both positions perfectly.

It is important to have versatile players like Raul Bravo in the squad especially in a two-legged tie like this,

Our mistake was in not scoring. But not just tonight, throughout the whole tournament, ... Greece goes through simply because it scored more goals.

We have to pass the ball quickly and make their defenders change places to deal with us. That will be uncomfortable for them.

We know they're going to press and make life uncomfortable for us,

We made errors in the middle period of the game. We risked too little, our center shots didn't go where they should have.

We don't know how to play for a draw,

We had the game within our grasp. We made our only error in the second half and it cost us.

Spanish soccer, which has chosen me to be coach.

Now I have to take a decision and logically that decision is going to be to continue.

Debates are good but you've all got to trust me,

Anything could have happened, but this result is not good for us,

This is the best Greek side I've seen in a long, long time,

You don't give anything away in a tournament like this,

It's a team that plays very well at 0-0 but it has a lot of problems when the other side takes the lead.

It's a bad time to be going up to Norway. The main problem for us will be the cold weather and perhaps the pitch will be in a poor state.

It's not the moment to ask and it's not the moment to answer.

It's been like this for so long but I haven't been here long and I can't come up with a quick answer to explain it.

In general, we weren't decisive enough in front of goal,

In any match you miss chances. To say that one particular lost opportunity was decisive is just trivial.

I may be trying out some new tactics,

I have to congratulate the Portuguese. They needed to win and they did. They did what they had to do,

In the third match (against Portugal), we didn't play at the level which was expected of us.

In these championships you don't give away anything,

I don't really know why we always seem to fail at big tournaments,

If I leave out a certain player it's for a reason. It's not just because I'm stubborn.