Manuel Pellegrini, Chilean coach of Real Betis, believes his “team played the right game” despite the defeat (0-1) against an Elche who “almost kicked the goal, but locked himself in” and achieved a result that he doesn’t want to qualify because it ignores “if the word football fair exists”.
The Betis coach believes that “Elche locked up but didn’t do anything unsportsmanlike”, so he believes his success is not “criticized”.
Pellegrini Considering that “these things can happen in the world of football”, although he said the defeat “does not dampen people’s morale before next Saturday’s Copa del Rey final against Valencia in La Cartuja.
“That’s the way it is with soccer. It hasn’t happened, but the team will continue to fight for important positions, defeats have to affect the mood 24 hours a day. Nothing should be questioned,” he said.
The Santiago coach did not regret the line-up because “he could have imagined if he had booked people and gone”, but he said he combined “a mixed eleven, like the whole year” and “what had to be done has been done. “because he does not believe that” there are physical problems “before the final Saturday” or that Valencia will come better than “Betis.
Pellegrini believes that “this match will be conditioned by the performance of both teams” and warns that “Valencia are a tough rival in many respects”, in which he recommends his players to have a “cool head so as not to fall into various provocations: hopefully it will be a good football game, ”he said.
Source: La Verdad
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