Following his side’s recent victory in the Copa del Rey, the Special One has taken out time to insist that Los Merengues have every intention of succeeding in the competition.
Real Madrid head coach, Jose Mourinho, has emphasized that his side are in no mood to take any competition lightly. His main focus was the Copa del Rey as the Whites were able to secure an easy victory in their latest fixture of the cup.
As Los Vikingos played out their match against Alcoyano, they were without 9 players who had featured in their Spanish La Liga fixture last weekend. Interestingly, although 9 changes had been made to the squad, Madrid still paved their way to a 4-1 victory
over their opponents.
The match that took place at the Santiago Bernabeu saw the Merengues easily dominate the visitors as it was not a hard task for the reigning champions of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011.
As the nine-time European champions took the field with an immense number of changes to their starting line-up, their intent to go far in the Copa del Rey was brought under scrutiny. Many had doubts that whether the Whites have any significant motive to
come out as victors.
However, Mourinho has asserted that changes to the squad do not signify whether a team is trying to thrive in a competition as it also points towards other factors.
Moreover, he expressed that the Copa del Rey is one of the priorities for his team and that they have every intention of achieving success in it.
"We are not in this competition to have a laugh," the Portuguese coach told reporters.
"We like the Copa and we certainly did not want to make the history books for the wrong reasons, as has happened to Madrid in the past in this competition. We did our http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Job-c18684 and so did Alcoyano.
"They were up for the game and played with enthusiasm and they have some interesting players and it seems they have a good coach because they played as well as I thought they would."
Prior to their fixture against Alcoyano, Real Madrid were able to achieve a 5-0 victory over Mallorca in the Liga BBVA.
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