Gabri Veiga: “Rodrigo Mora? We joked in training about teaming up…” | OneFootball

Gabri finishes the season as the team’s top assist provider. Do you put that down to the confidence you feel or to your importance on set pieces? -It’s a combination of all that. Set pieces are an important factor, an aspect where I’ve improved a lot. Then there’s also the way the team plays. In terms of goals, I’d have liked there to be more; we’ll see if on Saturday [tomorrow] I can add a few. But I wanted even more, although we’re not a team that scores loads of goals, not a 5-0 kind of team; we’re more efficient, with greater control of the game. The assists make me very happy, because I beat my previous best by a wide margin; I think my maximum had been six or seven assists in my career. Without setting a record for minutes played, I managed to achieve a good ratio of goal involvements. And we’ll see if on Saturday [tomorrow] I can add more.

Farioli has already said he’s not a big fan of long-range shots. Does that affect you?-It also depends on confidence. Whoever has a good shot can try, and no matter how well you strike it, sometimes one or two go in. Against low blocks, it can be a good solution. It comes in phases, right? I scored a lot of goals from outside the box at Celta; this year not as many, but I’ve had some good strikes, I just haven’t had the luck. It’s something I also want to improve, because it’s a good weapon—if the coach allows me to, and I think sometimes he does—to unlock the game.

You were never in the starting line-up with Mora at the same time. Can’t you play together?-I don’t know… I know it’s something the fans talk about a lot. We both play in the same position and I’d be delighted. We often joked in training about playing together, but in truth that only happened for very few minutes. Things went well and, if the coach decided it that way, you have to respect it. But my wish, of course, would be to play with Mora as much as possible, because he’s a great player.

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