Espanyol was stupid after the match against Rayo, which went from winning 2-0 at halftime to running out of points (2-3). Vicente Moreno tried to launch a natural speech. Again he spoke of “accident” and considers that the third defeat in the last three games “is not dangerous”. Despite this, he urges the group: “They are not the numbers we should have. We have to get it back in the next matches and improve.”
It was difficult for the Valencian coach to explain what happened. A Martian comeback for Madrid after a first half in which the Blue and Whites were able to sentence: “It is difficult to explain the other day and today. It seems that everything was going smoothly in a good first half, with an even short result. There were details, but in the second half we were 2-1 in the first play and that gave them life. “
Moreno acknowledges that at 2-2, when Adrián Embarba forced him to leave the field to change his pants, “we lacked reaction, but the shot was far off.” And, again, he urged his players to “kill matches first.” “Without realizing it, the game left us. We had the game to win, but it escaped,” he valued.
Iraola: “We had more patience despite losing”
Very educational, Andoni Iraola was shown who saw him from the stands. The coach, who already won Espanyol with Rayo in the first round, commented that “not so many things changed. We had more patience with the ball, in the first half they recovered us and came out in danger. We had to be calm even if we were losing. You had to turn the play around. And then everything came out, we scored two free-kick goals. “
The coach, who still has another penalty match, acknowledges that the Vallecano team's strategy was that of the second half against Espanyol that has everything to win in open matches. “The game required patience. By exchanging blows we would not be winners. We had to wear them out. And we didn't do better until the second half. The 2-1 gave us a way to get hooked on the game.”
Iraola, finally, acknowledged that Rayo Vallecano wants to incorporate a player before the close of the winter market: “The idea is that a player comes.”