Sevilla defender Javi Navarro played down his hard-man reputation and insisted a cool head will be just as important as a hot heart in tonight's UEFA Cup final against Middlesbrough.
Navarro is renowned in Spain for his uncompromising approach but he vowed to keep a lid on his fiery temper against the Teesiders at the Philips Stadion in Eindhoven.
The Sevilla captain said: "I have never played a match like this one before so it is really important for me and I am terribly proud that we have made it.
"I just hope now we can go on and win it.
"We need to combine a cool head and a hot heart. It is 90 minutes at full tilt and no mistakes allowed."
Navarro is likely to be a key figure for the Primera Liga side as Boro's strengths undoubtedly lie in attack, with the club boasting strikers of the quality of Mark Viduka, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Aiyegbeni Yakubu and Massimo Maccarone.
"We know them," Navarro said of the quartet. "They are good strikers, people capable of creating lots of problems, they are dangerous."
Navarro has in the past used rather crude methods to halt opposing strikers.
In 2001 he sat out four games for punching an opponent and last year he was banned for five matches for leaving Real Mallorca's Juan Arango with a fractured cheekbone courtesy of a stray elbow.
