Álvaro Cervera: “The game ended in the first half”

Analysis of the encounter. “The game ended in the first half. I think it is the game with the best numbers in attack of the whole season, and we have scored zero goals, and they have scored four. That is the analysis of the game. People still think that it is better to attack a lot, and it is not. They have come four times and have scored four. We have arrived the same times and we have not marked any. Our game is not about scoring more goals than the opposite, but because they don't score us. When we go up to score, they usually score us, because we defend with fewer people. The first part was the opposite of what I think it should be Cádiz that has to stay in the First Division. The numbers are there to see them, and they are pretty. We have shot more times on goal, we have taken more corners, fewer fouls… but we lost 4-0 and they could have been more ”.

Conclusions. “I watch the game. I see that it is a normal soccer match, with a normal first half of two teams that play well and reach the opposite goal, but one has something that makes a difference and they score four goals. The second goal they score us, which is the one that kills us, is a throw-in in our favor. There are two goals that are their successes and two that are our failures. We reached the opposite goal and hit the post, we threw it out … what I want to make clear is that it did not happen today, it always happens because it is reality and when you play games like this, on the one hand you leave with good numbers, but the reality is that we cannot play like this for most of the First Division teams, because we will lose ”.

Learning from defeat. “The more we get to the opposite goal, the more they reach us. When you arrive at the opposite goal, you arrive with people to finish off, cross… more reach us. When we come to counterattack with loose players, we are always mounted behind for what may happen. When we attack with the ball and lose it, we have problems. As in the second goal, we lose it in their midfield and it remains in a heads-up with the goalkeeper that ends in a penalty. That must be avoided ”.

Attack and receive goals. “What Cádiz has done in attack in the first half has delighted me, but if to do that I have to receive four goals, I am not going to do it. If we are able to do that and they don't mark us, we will continue to do so, because we can do it ”.

Chat at break. “I have meant two plays where the game has broken and we have lost it and I have told them that those mistakes for the future we have to learn. And that we try to win the second half and that it was not a runner where the result could be greater. Try to be more serious. We do not have the entity to want to make more chances than the rival and win the game because the rivals are very good ”.

Keys to the meeting for the future. “The key is that when you want to do things well, you add those that you do wrong. If we can add good things without adding bad things, we will do so in the future when it is consolidated, but while we are in the First Division, those in front are international… we are not mistaken ”.