Sampaoli: “The fans cheered like it was the World Cup final”

Jorge Sampaoli, coach of Sevilla, He left satisfied with the game his team won Copenhagen. For the Argentine, his team deserved the sentence then, although he admitted it was difficult for him to really get into the game.

“When the team understood how to play it, they took some kind of advantage. That advantage in the rival field did not end in the first half. We solved it in the second half. The rival could have equalized and we finished. winning it more clear than what happened in the game”, commented the coach.

“In the second half there was a different game, with more momentum than organization. Through that search we got the first goal and then the other two goals came,” he said. Sampaoli, who tries to adapt to the squad: “This is not a transition team, with big spaces, but rather to dominate the game. And with this we have to improve what is there, because of how this campus is put together and that’s what we’re trying to find.”

Asked about the slowness of the three midfielders, he said: “breast had a positional advantage and shots that could have been goals in the first half, the Papuan taken advantage of Tells, but it lacks power. The game is conceptually clear. They are foot players, not strikers, but they had a chance to find the edge against a very defensive team”.

Sampaoli appreciates the fact that this is the first victory since he came home. “Besides I have never won before now at Sanchez-Pizjuan and win at Champions and develop the possibility to continue Europe… It was a determining match for the club, for us, so the value is there.”

“Popular joy is becoming more responsible. People are euphoric, rejoicing as if it were the end of world, and that, apart from the responsibility, is an infectious joy”, he said about the first party in courage this season. “Anyone who hasn’t seen it live shouldn’t see it, it’s a game to suffer and enjoy the emotion of it live,” he recommended.