Gabri Veiga: “Rodrigo Mora? We joked about playing together…” | OneFootball

Gabri finishes the season as the player with the most assists in the team. Does he put that down to the confidence he feels or to his importance from set pieces? -It’s a combination of all that. There’s an important set-piece component, an area where I’ve improved a lot. Then there’s also the way the team plays. In terms of goals, I’d like there to be more; we’ll see if on Saturday [tomorrow] I can add a few more. But I wanted even more, although we’re not a team that scores loads, 5-0; 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 the most I’d had was six or seven assists in my career. Without having a record number of minutes, I managed to achieve a good ratio of goal involvements. And we’ll see if on Saturday [tomorrow] I can do more.

Farioli has already said he’s not a big fan of shots from distance. Does that affect you?-It also depends on confidence. If someone has a good shot, they can try, and no matter how well they do it, sometimes one or another goes in. Against low blocks, it can be a good solution. It comes in phases, doesn’t it? I scored a lot of goals from outside the box at Celta; this year not so many, but I’ve had some good strikes, I just wasn’t lucky. It’s also something I want to improve, because it’s a good weapon – if the boss allows me to, and I think sometimes he does – to unlock the game.

You've never started at the same time as Mora. 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 reality that happened for very few minutes. Things went well and, if the boss decided that, it has to be respected. 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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