Lopetegui: “We have to give a lot of credit to what we have done”

Julen Lopetegui, Sevilla coach, left his impressions after his team's triumph against Rennes in the last round of the Champions League group stage: “The key has been that we played a good first half, then we lacked a bit more tranquility. Rennes has footballers called to be of the first world order soon. We wanted to impose our game, we had to prevent them from running, although sometimes it was difficult to get. From the first goal we played well, although we lacked calm to manage that 0-2. We knew how to suffer against a good rival “.

The Basque analyzed more details of the crash: “We had complex situations, due to injuries, Covid, whatever. The Champions League is very complicated, all the teams are very good.”

Balance of this group stage: “We must give a lot of credit to this, there are great teams that do not go beyond this phase. Now we focus on LaLiga, which is very tough. Sergi Gómez? They stepped on his heel, he had inflammation and we have changed him for that. Draw ? We have no preference, it will be a great team and we will go with the ambition to eliminate them. “