Mendilibar, worried: “We’re not as good as we thought”

Jose Luis Mendilibarcoach of Sevillehe worries about the end of the second friendship with his team Germanywhere the Andalusian team fell this Sunday against to deburgfrom the German second division, 3-1 just one day after doing the same match Hansa Rostockof the same category, by 2-1.

“We’re not as good as we thought we were. I think yesterday and today we could have played better. Yesterday, at least in the second half, we dominated and we spent a lot of time in the opposite field, but today it cost us more”, the Basque coach told the club’s media.

“I think it’s difficult for us to get into games and that means they always score a goal for us. We seem to start herding when they score a goal. We have to build us before they build us. We improved a bit in the second part because we were fairer in the first. You have to push from the beginning because in the United States there will also be preparatory games, but they will not forgive you and we are just a stone away from the start of LaLiga. You have to compete from minute 1 to minute 90. In these matches it’s normal to be worse at the end, but we didn’t start well”, summed up the Sevilla coach.

Mendilibar evaluated the performance of internationals, such as Ocampos, who played in his first friendly. “We know they are not very good. The idea is that they play 60 minutes. Now Ocampos has played 90, he told me he is fine and he wants to play more. The last 20 minutes were left because he wanted to, but he didn’t have the capacity. I hope that from Wednesday we will all be fine in training, the only good thing about the trip to Germany is that I think Pedro Ortiz is not there, and we will all be able to train,” he said of the youth squad, who had to retire injured.