MADRID, 26 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Rayo Vallecano coach, Andoni Iraola, acknowledged that he is “concerned” about his team’s losing streak after losing to Real Madrid this Saturday (0-1), for the fifth consecutive day, and assured that he prefers to achieve “results” than good game.
“They have had the success that we have not had. In football, to score you have to hit the areas and we have not added in attack. We have planned a game with a low block and the team’s work has been very good. We have continued to arrive, especially from the outside, and we had chances, just before his goal. But today we weren’t successful in attack and obviously you play against Real Madrid and you assume that they are going to arrive. They did, we didn’t.” said.
“We were talking in the previous one that away from home they put us 1-0 with one less in the field, for details that are not strictly related to the game, but if we were 11 against 11, the same thing would not happen to you. In these last two games we have done more positive things than negative but we are leaving without adding. We have to know when to stop the game and when to give it more rhythm”, lamented Iraola.
Asked about the ownership of Mario Suárez and Baby, the Rayo coach said it was “a technical decision.” “They were all in good condition for this game. The only one who didn’t make it was Kevin Rodrigues, but Mario and Baby fit us today and that’s why they started. And Óscar Valentín has good milk, he has the mark of the tacos on the tibia, I don’t think he caught his ankle. That usually has a better diagnosis than if it had been a little lower, “he added.
On the yellow to Casemiro, the rayista coach stated that “there are different criteria”. “Sometimes they kick you out for nothing and others, no. I guess the VAR will have decided that it’s not red. I don’t know how it works, they explain things to us but it’s the same as having touched Casemiro… I don’t know the criteria, but excessive force I had, which is another of the criteria. I repeat, I don’t know why it comes in sometimes and not others.”
Regarding the future of Rayo, Irola indicated that “obviously” she is “concerned”. “Now in the second round I’m more concerned about the results than the game. Now we have to make the most of that style of play in a better way. Today it was gone in minute 83 and all that effort and work escaped and is now worth zero” , he underlined.
“Falcao? It is not a matter of the game, nor of a punctual player. At a global level it is costing us to score and the number of arrivals and shots that we make is not less than the first round, but we are not scoring. We It’s costing that and being able to reflect on the scoreboard when you hurt the opponent,” he concluded.