It’s a coincidence that the two games against the Real Village missed out on the discount? “They scored two goals against us despite talking about the vigilance, in transitions. I have nothing to complain about, we played a great game, we did some damage, but I have the feeling that we didn’t finish everything we could finish. They could come away with speed, and they are very good. Maybe in the first half we didn’t believe that we could stand in the opponent’s field, but the second half was perfect. We turned the game into a back and forth and they caught us in two… The defeat hurts because the team has done an exceptional job”, said Míchel, who spoke of the impact of the defeat on a mental scale. “We won’t let ourselves go, quite the opposite. We want to go as far as possible and I have the feeling that it will be like that. The players are tired, but we are demanding, we compete well and we want to be winners. Luckily, we have another game on Tuesday. And this squad wants to make history. We will try, knowing that losing against Villarreal hurt.”
Míchel has only made four changes. “I was going to put on Artero, though Miguel he asked us for the change and he didn’t know how to change the team. We knew we would miss the fifth, because we had spent two windows, but Miguel couldn’t do it anymore. When this happened, the game was in our favor”, explained the Madrid player, who also spoke about the wear and tear.Ivan he held up very well, the whole match, for example. We changed man for man, I don’t notice that they were melted. What has upset us is the loss of Miguel.”
Defeat must be put into perspective, bearing in mind that relegation is not in danger. “But the demand, as a club and as a squad, is good. We all want to grow, because that’s what has brought us here. Of course you see the classification and you see that there are many clubs fighting to avoid relegation, knowing that we have just go up… The reality is that what we have done has a lot of merit, everyone recognizes that, but we want more. Today, for example, we had low keys in midfield: romeo, Alex… And we competed. We want to enjoy the moment, but thinking about going up.”
Regarding Romeu, he said that “we are very lucky to have him, he is a differential player. But David Lopez has played an impeccable match and the departure of Angel Herrera, despite not being in its best version – hopefully it will continue next year – has been very good. Look at the case of Ramon Terrats: he was doing better in our squad, but he had to leave,” he said.
Setién: “We didn’t expect to win”
“We have come across an action at the end, where Jackson he has put an extraordinary ball a Gerard Moreno, which has given us victory when we least expected it. In fact, Girona has made us suffer. There were many alternatives, with transitions, throughout the ninety minutes,” he said Quique Setien, the coach of Villarreal. “Each team has had its moment, but what decides are the goals. I love Girona, their mobility, the type of footballer, Míchel, who is a phenomenon. We were only able to win thanks to the added time, both in Vila-real, in the 100th minute, and today”, he finished.
2023-05-20 14:33:58
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