José Luis Mendilibar is looking for the positive side of that goal conceded at the Juventus Stadium when extra time marked by the German had expired daniel siebert. The Sevilla coach believes the tie will prevent his team from going offline in the second leg.
“We have to stay with the game, not with the last play. It’s a shame that they tie you down like they tie us up, but it happens often. We have also won last minute in several league games this year. These are the circumstances of the game and I have to stick to the effort we made in 90 minutes, with the good first half we made in the first half”, said the Basque coach.
“In the first half we stole a lot of balls from Juventus at home. In the second, we lacked threatening the rival. They played more comfortably, because we didn’t scare them. But I think the game in general is very good on our part,” added Mendilibar, who pointed out: “The idea was to keep pressing up, and keep trying to play balls in the opponent’s field to create more danger. In the end we had to defend further back and at the last minute we almost always defended in our half, I don’t know if it was due to physical exhaustion or because Juve also went forward and had to tie the game and forced us to be closer to our place”.
Mendilibar remembered that the second leg in Nervión It will be similar to Manchester United because of a similar result. “Yes. We are going to be in the same circumstances, but we will have the public with us, with the heat here, everything is going to be in our favor. The good thing I get from the result is that with the tie we cannot speculate, because with 0-1 you can think they are already classified, but not with this one, we have to go out and win”.
Source: La Verdad

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