After being eliminated in the Copa del Rey and the Super Cup, the Engineer assured that the Betic team had “a difficult week” and that it affected them, “physically and mentally”. Moreover, he assured that ‘they score fewer goals’, so they need to improve in front of goal to get good results.
Manuel Pellegrini and the Real Betis They are far from their peak. The vertical, deep and oiled team continues to convince in this part of the season. During this day, Béticos dropped from minimum count during visit to Espanyol and they gave up key points for the only goal left after falling into the Super Cup and in the Copa del Rey : qualify for the Champions League next year.
In this sense, Pellegrini spoke about the defeat against the Catalans and lamented the two eliminations suffered by his team this week. “We are going to order the concepts a bit. We didn’t lose two titles this week, we lost the possibility of continuing to compete for the option of achieving a title . We still miss the quarter-finals of the Cup, the semi-finals, the final, there is still a long way to go, and in the Super Cup we had a good match against Barcelona and the final was still to come. We did not lose the titles, the team maintains a football line ”.
“What we lost is the goal, I think we have fewer goals than in other seasons and we have to try to find it quickly. There is none, there is no need to lose expectations, reality or ambition. You always have to have them, keep progressing. We are still in La Liga in the upper middle part of the table, there is more than one full round left. We would have liked to have qualified in these two competitions and won today, but we cannot always “, completed the national strategist.
zero week
The Engineer assured that it was a complex week, especially considering the fatigue caused by playing two consecutive extensions of 120 minutes: “It was a difficult week, with two defeats in two 120-minute matches and in two different competitions . Affects emotionally and physically , but that’s no excuse, we had the first half for winning it, unfortunately it didn’t happen. We have to overcome this bump quickly and try to recover the score in La Liga”.
On the other hand, the coach appreciated the debut of Abner Vinícius, a 22-year-old Brazilian full-back who arrived from Atlético Paranense less than a week ago: “He is a player who has to adapt to the League. He played a very good game defensively, offensively he must give us even more. Let’s hope he improves match after match”.
Finally, Pellegrini assured that Betis must redo the game that characterized them last season and correct the shortcomings they have in front of goal: “We need to rediscover our football in the sense that we score fewer goals than in previous seasons ”.
“We have possession, we have control, but we need to be more precise in the last few meters to be able to convert those chances into goals. . Anyway, the first round is not over yet, we have a good score, we have to keep fighting and not lose expectations and reality,” he said.
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