The coach of the Deportivo Alavés, Pablo Machin, he stressed, after the defeat of his team against Atlético de Madrid, which is left “with the arrests that the team had” that was able to equalize the game when it was left with ten players.
The babazorro appreciated that the leader had few chances in the first half and underlined the wear and tear of his men, but regretted that they had no luck in the first goal received because it came “from a bad pass and rebound”.
From the same he pointed out that when they tied they made a mistake that they cannot allow and that cost them defeat.
On the revolution of the initial “eleven” he clarified that “the idea was to refresh the team” because we had one less day of rest than the mattresses and considered that “we must optimize the squad”.
He also revealed that Ximo Navarro and Rubén Duarte had physical discomfort and Lucas Perez the last game ended with a blow.
Regarding the expulsion, he indicated that it seemed “rigorous” and considered that “The referee best placed to referee is the one on the field of play and the plays that are of interpretation should be left“Because in his opinion,” at the moment the referee is notified, he is already being conditioned “.
“The VAR is there to correct the referee if there is a flagrant error, but I assume all decisions with the naturalness that they have to be made because they are part of the game,” he added.
Asked about the qualifying situation of Alavés, with 18 points but close to relegation, he said that the position they have is the one they deserve. “If our goal is salvation we are close to achieving that average, but We must think about the immediate match, which is the Cup and then Cádiz ”.