Quique Sanchez Flores, The Sevilla coach, stated after his team’s defeat against Athlétic Bilbao that they “encouraged their pressure with mistakes” of their own “at the beginning of the game and there were mistakes at the back” where they made Ernesto’s team Valverde ” will play quite easily.”
“We had a bad first half, very weak, against a good team that was in good shape. We encouraged their pressure with mistakes at the beginning of the game, errors at the back. We made it easy for them with a certain ease, we was not on the opposite field and we only had five pretty good minutes where we pushed and recovered quickly,” he said after the 0-2 draw against Athlétic.
“It didn’t last long and their important players played with a lot of freedom. Sancet, Williams… We encountered a lot of difficulties and in the second half, with the 5-3-2 and the 4-4- 2 we were good . “We dominated and shot on goal, which punished us a lot. We will go home with 61% possession but that means having the ball where we don’t want it. We need it closer to the goal,” he explained.
Regarding his style, he declared that they were “very up in the air, in fact, in the second half there was better, closer and allowed the rival less, closer to the area and faster to recover: things we like, but we need continuity. and With a team like Athletic, it costs us a lot,” he said.
“When things are bad, things happen like. We have to maintain the strength where we came until we turn it to the other side. We didn’t think it would be easy. I know that those players will come. When everyone who is missing is on the field I’m sure we’re going to be a better team,” he commented in relation to the injuries his team is suffering.
Regarding the injury to Serbian Nemanja Gudelj, he noted that “he had a strange week with that knee and he got better, worse and finally the game came.”
“We didn’t take any chances, but he had bad luck and in one play he felt a block. I think he is fine, he unblocked himself, but he is an important player who plays a lot,” added by Sánchez Flores, who pointed out that the Copa del Rey “It is a shortcut to something wonderful for Sevillistas, which is Europe.”
“It will be very important, they will put pressure on us there and we hope to make fewer mistakes,” he said of the tie against Racing de Ferrol.
Source: La Verdad
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