MADRID, 19 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Osasuna’s coach, Jagoba Arrasate, has assured that he has “liked” his team despite the resounding defeat against Atlético de Madrid (0-3), and has affirmed that Luis Suárez’s action against Sergio Herrera in the first goal, in which the referee did not signal a foul on the goalkeeper, “conditions” the match.
“It hurts because I think we played a good game. I liked the team, I loved the fans, I can’t say the same about others. To win these kinds of games you have to be successful, we haven’t, and we make mistakes, we’ve made some. I liked the team”, he declared at a press conference.
In this sense, he acknowledged that they had “the feeling that today could be the day”, but that “everything has turned out crooked”. “We have not been successful and we have made some mistakes. We have had many arrivals, and we have made a mistake in monitoring the second goal, and when these two things happen, a team like Atlético de Madrid does not forgive it,” he stressed.
In addition, the Basque coach stated that the fact that Luis Suárez did not call a foul on Sergio Herrera for the first goal “completely conditions the match”. “That move is always called as a foul, today I don’t know why not. You have to understand the goalkeeper, because if he wants to be powerful, he jumps and takes your knee out, they call you a penalty, and if they unbalance him it’s not a foul. I don’t understand it They are two actions that have marked the future of the party”, manifested.
“They score the goal and the plan changes. They get behind knowing that we were going to charge the area and expecting a mistake from us. I have seen the team with the ball comfortable, arriving a lot from the outside,” he added. “They played with a line of five and Llorente’s position made it difficult for us to adjust at the beginning. The game is conditioned; on the first play you go down 0-1 and the plan changes. The team had the ball, they played a lot in rival field, we have had chances to draw, but when you are overturned and in a surveillance you make a mistake, Luis Suárez does what he does and the game becomes very difficult”, he concluded.