The national coach, Luis Enrique Martinez, was satisfied with the result and with the image of his team after sealing a draw in extremis against Germany in the premiere at the Nations League. The Asturian coach wanted to stand out above all David De Gea, key with your stops to get a positive result from Stuttgart.
“When From Gea he makes a mistake, we look for the tickle, so when he does a game like this you have to make him the wave. It would be good if it were the front page of a newspaper and said tomorrow ‘What a great goal we have!’, But since it’s not going to come out, I’ll already tell you, ”the coach claimed, happy with the level of his goalkeeper. “The bad thing is the sambenito hanging that every time he makes a half failure it appears on all the news,” he lamented Fought.
The Asturian coach also highlighted the good general level of all his pieces despite the little time he had to prepare for the contest. “The reward for work sometimes comes,” he said about the goal of Gayà in the last minute of the game. “Not suffering, but it would have annoyed me if the players hadn't gotten the point they deserved after playing a very good game,” he said. Luis Enrique in Teledeporte.
“We have been at a great physical level for this moment of the season and scoring in that minute is a joy. You see that the reward for work sometimes comes the first time we have had clearer occasions that we did not know how to materialize ”, he recalled about the opportunities that went into limbo in the first half.
“In the second half Germany decided to go back after their goal and allowed us to get there. It is difficult to attack a locked team, but we try it on the wing ”, he analyzed. Luis Enrique, also critical of things to improve. “I would have liked not to lose so many balls, but with the pace at which it has been played it is normal. It has been back and forth. In effort it has been a 10 for my players ”, he added.
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Luis Enrique also applauded the role of the four debutants: Ferran Torres, Ansu Fati, Mikel Merino and Óscar Rodríguez. “Above all I like the image in front of a large Germany at home, he will play for many more minutes because of what I have seen and seen in LaLiga, it is very nice to see people with a lot of desire to have a long career in the national team ”.