Lopetegui: “They said there were no penalties, and the first one was on the forehead”

Julen LopeteguiSevilla coach, he was very angry for the way his team fell in Pamplona. the basque coach he specified the implied punishment against himself and he decided the fight.

“When they told us that these actions will not be allowed, they gave us a punishment that I do not understand. They told us that ‘penalties’ will not be awarded. That the punishments must be a forceful act of justice. I guess to understand what he has whistled. And I think it has not been fair”, the Sevilla coach resigned.

“A decision we have to acceptwith displeasure, but accept it”, he added, obviously upset.

In the build-up to the fight, he defended his own work. “They are better than us, then we took the pulse, we had a draw and we made it 1-2. And in the second half we were superior, with dangerous transitions and a decisive action came”, he said in the press room, to continue claiming the main game. “This is a difficult action to understand. We had a meeting that the main argument of Medina Cantalejo was to end penalties, understanding that a penalty must be something compelling, something fair, a very clear hand, a kick… But a game who leaves the area, a player who is not high, who opens his arm defending the position… In the meeting they told us the complete opposite. The first one on the forehead for us,” he stressed.

“In the second half, we also had two clear situations in transitions with an advantage where we may have missed the last pass. Papu’s action to whistle offside is also clear. And then, with the penalty, it got complicated”, he underlined, admitting that perhaps his team did not deserve to win but remembering that “we have done positive things to achieve better results”.