Lopetegui: “We sensed the difficulty that has been reflected in the field”

Julen Lopetegui, coach of the Seville, commented at the end of the game the difficulty his team found to beat the bottom, a Huesca who stood up on his visit to the Sánchez Pizjuán and that he found the figure of a great Bond, savior of your team.

“The game has been the confirmation of the difficulty that we sensed. In The league there is a lot of equality and I am satisfied by the seriousness of the team, although surely we have missed the second goal, something that made them believe with the chance of Rafa Mir, but we retained the three points, “said the former coach, who was sent off and watched the game in the stands.

Lopetegui He explained how he lived the game off the bench: “You can intervene less with the relationship with the players,” he said before reflecting on the difficulties at the end: “In the last minutes they had options to score and we were even able to kill the game earlier. We have known how to suffer in the last twenty minutes. The reality is that we have played against a team that has been preparing this match carefully and tactically for a week, and we have 72 hours. We knew how to overcome that added difficulty ”.

The coach is already thinking about Wednesday's game, corresponding to the round of 16 of the Champions. “Is over The league and now we have four days to prepare for the game of Dortmund”.

About the performance of Bond, highlighted its importance: “It has been doing a very good job for a long time. When requested by the rival, at the end of the match, he has appeared. When we have requested it, it has appeared without any doubt. Although I think the team was also doing a good job until that time. He is an intelligent, diligent, hard-working boy and when his alarm went off he took his opportunity. It is the result of his work, his persistence and his mentality. It is the only way to progress and meet the demands. He has done it and he has to continue doing it like all his colleagues ”.

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