“I have a worse body than if we won and better than if we lost.” ernesto valverde He has been very graphic about the feeling that the extra draw in Mallorca has left him. “We tried to play our game. It was complicated mainly by the wind, it caused many errors. Mallorca’s lines are hard to beat, they are so close and then Darder can set up a counter and in any mess they can score a goal. We had chances but we didn’t solve them. We are not satisfied because we want to win, but it is a complicated course. We get a point. We have to continue”, he said in the press room of Son Moix.
The coach said “we managed to win”. “This is what we want. We had opportunities, saving that line of eight or ten players is very difficult to do at home and even more so abroad. As the second half progressed, we got better, except for the five-minute arreón they had”, he added.
The man from Gasteiz also identified what his team lacked to win the match. “We lack clarity because it is difficult to have clarity in this field. Mallorca is very hard to beat. You also have to give credit to the rival. We lack success at times. It turned out to be an intense fight. Each split ball is a match. It’s not the best game in the history of football, but these matches also have to be played and performed,” he said.
Valverde made an assessment of the start of the league before the first break for the teams of the season, with seven points added from twelve possible: “We would have liked to come with nine at the break, but we kept scoring after a bad start . The start is the same as last year. It is true that this time they have fought against more complex rivals. We have fifteen days left to put ourselves in a good position in the standings. Until ten days have passed, we don’t know where each team will go”.
Txingurri also appreciates the fact that the team still hasn’t conceded a goal away from home after the 0-2 loss at El Sadar and today’s 0-0 loss at Palma. “This is what all coaches want when we play away from home. The home team always has the momentum. You have to have a trade to roll up your sleeves like in Pamplona when we left with one less or here today. You also have to defend your own place,” he stated.
Source: La Verdad
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