The Villarreal coach, Marcelino García Toral, assured this Thursday, after the defeat against Olympique de Marseille (4-0), that his team is not equal in the tie and that he is the main person responsible for the result in his decisions before and after the game.
“We destroyed the good dynamic of play and competitiveness. We were well below the level and we played against a good team with great efficiency,” explained the Asturian, insisting that the French team was superior “in duels and efficiency.”
“Olympique was better and did a lot right,” commented the coach, insisting that he did not make the right decisions in planning the match.
The coach admitted that the defeat was a “difficult blow” for Villarreal “because we expected to compete in a different way and with another result.”
“We expected the match to reach 180 minutes and now it is very difficult,” argued Marcelino, who advanced that Villarreal, despite the result of the first leg, will prepare for the second leg “with maximum enthusiasm, strength and enthusiasm .”
The coach revealed that the problems of the locker room with a virus forced him to improvise the defensive line, but insisted that Villarreal did not lose for this reason “but because Olympique passed us and we are not at our best level. ” ”.
“If in Europe you are not at your best level it is impossible to win. And even more so in this stadium,” said the coach, who made sure that the first goal changed the game because it hurt his team.
“And then the second came quickly and the way it happened,” he commented in reference to Mosquera’s own goal. “It’s heavy on us and it’s hard for us to get over it,” he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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