Marti Cifuentes on QPR and why every manager needs to be ‘delusional’
The IndependentSign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It’s the first league I coached in that you don’t feel safe at 2-0 in the 90th minute,” Cifuentes says. “Perhaps so far one of the main things I have learned is that the atmosphere in stadiums can affect the game.” That’s when, as he puts it, the game can “explode”. As a Catalan whose father brought him to watch Johan Cruyff’s Barcelona “Dream Team”, Cifuentes is a devotee of the Pep Guardiola “positional game”. open image in gallery Michael Frey of Queens Park Rangers celebrates scoring “That’s why adaptation is so important,” he says.
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