Pellegrini: “December goals are almost there”

Manuel Pellegrini, coach of Real Betis, wants to highlight, after his team’s victory against Petrocub, that the most important thing is the return from Moldova with three points that almost leaves the green and whites qualification for in the next round of the Conference that is almost certain. . “The most important thing now is to get the three points. I think the team had the maturity throughout the game to not let themselves be caught off guard by any counterattack. It is very easy to attack and get caught in the wrong position. Keeping a clean sheet again after a few games where they scored goals against us was also important. We searched, especially in the second half when we had a bigger offensive volume, and with 0-1 one tends to defend a little more. But except for the offside goal, which it was, we know how to defend well,” said the Betic coach in a press conference.

“When we were 0-1, we had some clear chances to close the game and we didn’t. Logically the last minutes were more tense and one had the tendency to take shelter at the back. So I highlight the presence of a clean sheet and I think they “Despite having a lot of the ball in the area in those ten minutes, they didn’t have a clear chance to score except for that offside goal. keep that mark that often needs to be achieved.” continued analysis Pellegrini.

Pellegrini believes that now it is important to finish between 9th and 16th in order to play the second leg at home: “We added three more points, we will see when the other games are finished what is our position . The ideal is to finish between 9th and 16th, because it will not be enough to enter the top eight, and having to return home is important to qualify and we need to find the three points at home with the Helsinki, On the other hand, we are in still power with seven or eight less players on Thursday. They are usually in action on Sundays so we try to rotate and make the whole squad feel that it is important to stay alive in all competitions.”

“All our midfielders are injured, it’s more difficult to play, not because we don’t want to. The important thing is to achieve the December goals, which are almost there. We all want to surpass our opponents, but changes have to be made, the League is still the most important thing. We will try to get as high as possible when we qualify for the next round,” added Pellegrini, who finally commented that he does not expect to recover from any injury before the clash against Villarreal.