Sevilla coach Julen Lopetegui, assured that Chelsea “has been just the winner” this Wednesday in their Champions League match at the Sánchez-Pizjuán, “Although the result (0-4) is excessive” in a match in which the English “have done a lot of damage when they have been able to run”.
“We did not get into the game well and then they punished us against it. The 0-2 has hurt us; until that result we were in the game, even with changes designed to keep looking for a draw, ”Lopetegui said after the match.
The Gipuzkoan coach acknowledged that they have been “creditors of the defeat”, although, despite this, he stressed that “The important thing” is that Sevilla is “classified for the round of 16”, which is “a far from easy achievement and that some greats of European football are not going to achieve.”
For the sevillista coach, “we must not lose perspective, because we are classified for the eighth” and, in addition, Chelsea “is a team made to fight to win the Champions League.”
On the injury of goalkeeper Tomas Vaclik and the subsequent debut of the youth squad Alfonso Pastor, Lopetegui commented that the Czech “had an annoyance and has suffered”, but “at no time did he say that he could not play”, and added that the young goal of the subsidiary “has played a good game and his debut must be approved.”