Valencia player Luis Riojawho led his team to a 1-1 draw against Sevilla, admitted that they don’t “know how to kill games” and that this situation is “hitting them hard,” even though they are “doing step forward.”
“We have one of the best goalkeepers in Europe (Giorgi Mamardashvili) and now it’s happening to us,” He told DAZN in reference to the Georgian goalkeeper’s mistake in Sevilla’s 1-1 lead that, in extra time, neutralized his team’s advantage at Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán.
However, the Sevillian winger stressed that “we have to keep the image of the team” at the Sevilla stadium and added: “We are taking steps, but they are not strong enough to allow us to add three.”
Asked about his goal, which was initiated after Mamardashvili’s long throw-in was deflected by Hugo Duro, Rioja said they had “changed the dynamic” and emphasized that the team’s “first attacker” “is the goalkeeper and the first defender, the forward.”
“The situation has been complicated since the start of the League. That’s the dynamic we have. Our goal was that on matchday 38 we were not down and now we were close to adding three, but we didn’t do it. We hope we can achieve it the next day at home,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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