Cabrera: “They rushed when calling a penalty”

Still elated by the action that had just happened, in added time of the second half, Leandro Cabrera served as captain of Espanyol –It was, in the absence of Diego López and David López in the eleven parakeet– after the 1-0 of Real Sociedad in a controversial penalty de Calero on Merino, transformed by Isak in the last moment of the match.

“We miss a point in an action that leaves us without reaction time. It’s not so clear. There is contact but this is a contact sport”, he tried to reason, in Gol’s microphones. And he sentenced: “They rushed at the time of calling a penalty because the VAR cannot enter, there is contact”. The center-back also added that “the team was very sacrificed, we made a very big effort. And when the defense couldn’t do it, Oier intervened in a magnificent way. We lacked to give more importance to the ball, be more cheekywhen we did it we had opportunities”.

Despite the defeat, which took place in a somewhat culé way, Cabrera stated that “the first thing is to evaluate, to get the positive part out of this. The team is very solid. They had their chances but scored in a bit of a strange way.. We have to stay with the good and go out to win on Sunday”.