ANDThe coach of Deportivo Alavés, José Luis beggar, appeared before the press after his team’s defeat against Real Sociedad. The one from Zaldibar assured that in terms of the game, his team had matched the San Sebastian team, and commented that his team had competed well for most of the match. That is why for Mendilibar it is “a shame” not to have taken advantage of the game to take advantage of other direct rivals.
match analysis
“I think the start of the game was good and the rival had difficulties getting the ball played, then they equalized a bit, but there were hardly any chances in the first half. In the second they may have opened up a bit, and there have been more options to arrive. In a strategic move they scored a goal for us, and we have not been successful in the options we have had. They then had some against to score the second, but we have to stay with the 1-0″.
lack of goal
“I don’t know if Real got it right or it was an own goal, but it’s a well-executed action by them. In that sense, I think we didn’t finish off badly today, and we have to give value to the save that Remiro made to Vallejo. There have been some other occasions that we have not finished clinching, but it is what we have. We have to insist on the game, which I think we have matched them even in some moments we have been better. We know that if you don’t score, you don’t win, and it’s easier for the opponent at home to score a goal for you”.
Not keeping the idea for 90 minutes
“Tiredness enters as well. What you have been doing for 60 minutes of making it difficult for them to get the ball out, with fatigue little by little it wears off, and there are more spaces between the lines. All of this makes the game open up a bit, and, of course, if the game opens, the home team usually attacks more. I think we’ve made options to equalize, and I think it wouldn’t have been unfair, but he scores the goal. Today I think we have competed well and almost until the end of the match. Perhaps with the last changes I have messed up the team a bit, but they had to risk it and it didn’t come out”.
Conceding a set piece
“It seems that goals from set pieces are given a lot of importance, you have to defend it just like any other play. I don’t care if it’s from a set piece or a play, I’m not going to be too bad-tempered. Football is a bit of everything, and you have to know how to defend everything and attack everything”.
Not taking advantage of other teams
“The draw other weeks has helped us to get closer to salvation, and today it would have been worth a lot. In the end, you are not going to tie or lose to go to win. Only one team from below has won, and it is a shame unable to take advantage of it. Rest, and from Tuesday think about the next game”.
Defeat more painful than another?
“I hope not. The players are not happy because we have lost, but they are happy because we have competed. Let’s see who I will tell this to when we are in relegation, it is zero points… it seems that I am telling stories of not believing, but I think which is so I think we’ve been quite worse weeks in terms of everything, and now we’re on the way. We have to win, of course, but I don’t think losing today is too negative. People will be fine in the next game.”
