Luis Enrique: “Giving up is not in my manual and neither is celebrating defeat”

Luis Enrique Martineznational coach of Spainanalyzed the match played by the team Japanesethird game of Group E of Qatar World Cup.

The Asturian coach did not hide when talking about what happened. “It certainly wasn’t such a good night,” he began by saying that the game had turned around in five minutes. “It didn’t exceed what we all saw, five minutes of total lack of control, of panic. They scored two goals for us and if they had to score two more they would have scored them for us for sure”, sincerely he said.

For the national coach it is a question of total need Japanese and how poorly Spain managed its share. “When a country like Japan has nothing left to lose, they are the most at risk and they come over like planes. Five minutes of panic”, he said to add: “The situation recovered when Japan decided to return to normal position On the field, he got what he wanted and retreated. From there we tried to manage the situation in the best way, we had some chances, but it was very difficult because of the ten players inside, we had some good shots, but not much else.”

In this sense, he admitted that he was not nervous about what he was seeing, rather he tried to restore the situation from the changes introduced. “Five minutes, two goals. If you want 12 bad minutes, then 12. Nothing crossed my mind. I have a lot of experience in football and I have seen all the good and all the bad. As a coach, you try to manage the changes, we took risks, we made changes but behind ten it was very difficult”, he commented.

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The Asturian ruled that it was a matter of nerves – “one can be nervous before a game but at this point…”, he gently commented – and stressed that it was a serious warning for what may come. “We will mourn or mourn tonight. Nothing to celebrate. We’ve passed second, yes, but this should serve as a warning that this will happen. if against Morocco We are fortunate to continue, Morocco risk again. In those moments we have to show some strength when the rival is forcing us”, he said about the round of 16 duel.

“Japanese deserved to pass as the first group because they lost Germany already Spain. It upsets me a lot because I would have liked to finish first in the group by winning the game”, he added at the end by saying that he did not want to be ruled out. Spain as one of the candidates. “Surrender is not in my handbook and neither is celebrating defeat. I don’t have much to celebrate, really,” he concluded by saying Luis Enrique.