Manuel Pellegrinicoach of Real Betis, blamed “defensive failures” for Sunday’s loss against Villarreal (2-3), which caused Beticos to lose sixth place in the league, in favor of Real Sociedad. “Defensive failures condemned us,” said the Chilean, considering that “our defensive failures were two goals, the first was a defensive mismatch and the second was Sokratis’ own goal.”
Regarding the double dismissal of Alberto Moreno and Chimy Ávila, the Betic coach did not want to go into many details: “I can’t talk about it because I haven’t seen it, it’s at the other end of the field. Chimy tells me that the referee accused him of insulting him, but he denied it”, while pointing out that “this is not an excuse, because they also left ten, we lost the game because of the weakness of the defense and not because of the expulsion “.
“In the second half, his second goal affected our mood, but we continued to look for the third goal. We had a great chance from Fekir that Jörgensen scored for the better, and from there they mounted a counterattack to make it 2-3. We had more coming, like another one from Ayoze, which couldn’t be a goal, but we had chances to win the game. We won without abnormal defensive errors ,” the Betic coach continued to analyze.
When asked about the changes, Pellegrini explained that “when there are changes and you don’t win, changes are always bad. But the ones we made have their explanation. The full-backs were injured, so they had to leave on the field Fornals came out to try to do damage to the wing, which is where we went in the best, and Johnny and Marc Roca because Guido and William Carvalho were tired.
Source: La Verdad
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