A Villarreal actor warns his teammates: "Anfield is hell. They just want to kill you."

Etienne Capo prepares with Villarreal for a tough challenge in Liverpool in the Champions League semi-finals: "They just want to knock you down, finish you off, and they don't care who is in front of them. This is the most horrible stadium I've been to" (Wednesday, 22:00)

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26/04/2022

Tuesday, 26 April 2022, 12:06 Updated: 12:15

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Villarreal are preparing for tomorrow (Wednesday) at Anfield in the Champions League semi-finals, and team player Etienne Capo is preparing his teammates and making it clear to them: Caution, Anfield is hell.

Capo, who previously played for Watford, also talks about Villarreal's impressive journey this season at the factory, which included the sensational dismissal of Juventus and Bayern Munich.

"I asked, where is Villarreal?", He says of his reaction after the offer he received from the Spanish team, "I was told it was a sunny place, near Valencia, so I said okay, come on."

The journey was successful.

Capo left Watford in January 2021, after his team's games against Norwich and Huddersfield, and came to Spain, season which he ended with meetings against Real Madrid and Manchester United, including winning the Europa League when he was named man of the match.

Now Villarreal, the team he has not heard of before, is preparing for a meeting with Liverpool, in a battle for the continent's big game.

"To win the Champions League? We never had the audacity to declare we would do it," he says amused, "We're the smallest club in the semi-finals, that's obvious, but we were also the smallest club in the quarter-finals. We're just on our happy path, and we have nothing to lose. ".

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Capo (Photo: GettyImages, Christian Kaspar-Bartke)

Capo over Liverpool at Anfield: "They have a kind of ability to make you experience nothing but suffering, all the time, the whole game, in every part of the pitch" (Photo: Reuters)

Villarreal have beaten Juventus and Bayern, clubs that hold double the number of European Cups (8) from victories that Villarreal have achieved in all their history in the knockout stage.

"We do not care. We know we are an underdog," he said.

He now arrives with his teammates at the formidable Anfield Stadium, where he played four times in the Watford uniform, and was defeated four times by a cumulative 18-1 difference.

"Anfield is hell, you have to say it like it is, it's hell," the midfielder claims, "it's the most horrible stadium I've been to in England. Either it's the atmosphere, or the way they play ... for 90 minutes, you're in hell.

"They have a kind of ability to turn themselves around, to make you experience nothing but suffering, all the time, all the game, in every part of the field. And they never stop, they push you all the time, they just want to score more goals, and then even when they "Conquerors, they keep going. They want to bring you down, to finish you off. They don't care who's in front of them. They just want to kill everyone, and that's it."

Capo says it is easy for him to prepare for the games, because in Onai Emery's video tutorials he is always the player who is most interested.

Why?

"At home I do not watch football at all," he says, "I do not want it to fill my whole life. But in the video tutorials, I sit in the front row. Anyone who watches football all day, can get upset from this training. I enjoy. It's my job, I get information, get ready and come ready. Then, at the end of the game, I say to myself, 'Know what, this coach of ours, he's really smart, he knows a lot of things.' It happens to me a lot. "

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