Right after falling before him Girona (1-0) in the first leg of the first semifinal of promotion playoff to First Division, the new technician of the Almeria, the portuguese Jose Gomes, he remarked that they are “at halftime of the game that is this tie”, and, in Almería, their players “are going to leave their skin on the field to go to the final.”
Gomes, the fifth coach of the course for the Andalusians, regretted that Almería has had “eight casualties this week”, and argued that he had a line of five defenses “to defend our goal and try to come out with danger to counterattack.”
“Defensively, my players have been very good. We have not suffered or had dangerous situations, beyond the error that caused his goal,” he emphasized Gomes before admitting: “What I liked the most about the game was the balance with which the team defended.”
Instead, the coach of the Almeria acknowledged that “the team has not done well in the offensive transition.” “With the quality in attack that we have, we must create more chances and more danger,” he added.
Even so, Gomes wanted to emphasize that “Of the bad results this is the least bad, the best”. “With everything we've been through, I have to be happy with the effort and the attitude,” he said.