Diego Pablo Simeone spoke to the media at the conclusion of his team’s match at Benito Villamarn. The Argentine coach recalled once again that the forcefulness in the area decides the matches
Heat. “We know it’s hot. That’s why the game started at 9:30 p.m. I think they both tried to play the best game possible. They were better in the first half. In the second half we improved a lot. I’ll take the second half. The team went from less to more and we ended up in a rival field trying to spend as long as possible in the Betis area”.
Lack of goals. “Last week we scored three goals. We have good players, a good group. The team managed to be finer, fresher in the last stretch. The changes gave us a lot. Lino and Barrios came in very well. There is also very good competition between Memphis and Morata”.
Two opposite parties. “The second half was the game we wanted to play. At half-time we told them that we were having a bad game, that we had to run despite the heat. Betis slowed down and we raised it. We need more forcefulness in the areas to win the game. We wanted to win. We tried in the second half to put the team forward to win the game. Nothing else can be done. It tied and we have to keep working”.
what was missing“Forcefulness. I have been repeating myself a lot. The teams that have forcefulness are the ones that normally win the games.”
Lack of a 5. “Not punctually. Koke’s injury can happen, it’s football. Today we tried with Barrios despite the fact that he hasn’t had a clean week because of that, we started with Rodrigo. We will act accordingly to what the club can do.”
