Imanol Sheriff He was delighted with his team’s match against Cyprus and the unblemished record in the Europa League: “The goal has been reached, but the jackpot remains,” recalled the coach, referring to securing first place to go directly to the round of 16 . It will be played against Manchester United next Thursday at Anoeta: “You can’t ask for more, it’s a great match, Real Madrid fans deserve a game like this.” It was enough for the urdin squad to win, draw and lose the minimum against the ‘red devils’, but Imanol points out that “we know it’s hard”.
Oriotarra expressed his happiness at having full points in these five games, but remembered that “the most important thing is missing and we will see if we can put the icing on the cake.” He recalled that Real was the only team of 32 in the Europa League to have a full victory: “That was for a reason,” he said.
The classic self-criticism
“I’m very happy to have achieved one more victory,” said the Real coach, who was also self-critical of his players for their performance in the final moments of the match that almost cost him a goal: “I think there have have. There have been a lot of these last minutes and the occasions they had”, he assured. “I think that in the first half we should have sentenced the game and entered the second half in a different way”, he added.
Imanol celebrated his own game, being the “dominators” of the game and for the seriousness of his players in handling themselves, although, very stylishly, he confessed that “they got a big row today because against Valladolid we don’t need Because we lost the game, we should have won it and against Getafe, both and we should still have six points in the league”.
One of the novelties left out of the game was the system used by Real, a 4-3-3, although it felt like a 4-1-4-1. The coach explained it: “I understand that with our teammates and from how we saw the rival the day before, today we can hurt them by opening up at both ends”.
The coach recalled that “this is not the first time we have done this. I told you, if we have a good thing, it is that we have tactically rich players, who can adapt to different systems. That’s what it takes to have great players.”
Source: La Verdad
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