The Betis coach, the Chilean Manuel Pellegrini, He said this Thursday in the field of Zagreb Dynamo “It was a difficult match, like all in Europe,” because his team lost “at home by 0-1 and we had to look for a favorable result from the first minute.”
“We must go into the game with confidence and with the awareness that defensively we played a good game in the first leg and that offensively we must give more if we want to reverse the 0-1. In short tournaments, of course all matches are final,” Pellegrini added this Wednesday at the official press conference held at the Maksimir stadium.
The coach from Santiago described the rivalry as “final because if you don’t win, you will be left”, so he wants to “achieve the victory that allows us to continue in a championship that is also very important” and in which he expects “show that ambition that wasn’t shown in last week’s game.”
Manuel Pellegrini recalled that “Dinamo hardly” created a danger to Benito Villamarín, but considered it a rival “technically good” for whom it is “difficult to win the ball back, so” their players “must have a higher intensity and a stronger offensive volume.”
The Betic coach indicated that the Congolese striker Cedric Bakambu, Signed in the winter market and made his debut on Sunday, he will be able to start for the first time because he “always plays” for Galatasaray and in the African Cup, so he is “fit to play for ninety minutes .” Let’s see tomorrow if he is in the starting eleven and if he can complete the game,” he said.
Betis travel with only one central defender in Zagreb, the Moroccan Chadi Riad, and Pellegrini announced that his partner will be midfielder Marc Roca, because he does not have “many alternatives”, despite the fact that the Catalan footballer “never played there, but he has experience” in the European group stage League. “The two of them will play,” he advanced.
One of the options this Thursday is that the tie will be decided in a penalty shootout, thankfully “It’s very difficult to prepare”, The Chilean coach emphasized, because “in training, anyone can score but with the pressure of the result it’s different”, and “who is calmer and more successful will continue, as usual.”
Manuel Pellegrini also referred to the situation of Argentine midfielder Guido Rodríguez, that he is negotiating the renewal of his contract and does not believe “that he does not want to continue at Betis and that Betis does not want him”, so even if the distance to the agreement is great, “I hope there is an understanding. . ”
Source: La Verdad
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