Jose Luis Mendilibar, coach of the Eibar, positively valued the point achieved this Saturday in Ipurua against the Valladolid, and more considering that his team started conceding a penalty against.
“It took us a bit to take command of the game, but I think we have made chances to score the second goal, and we were good until the end of the first half. In the second half due to not distant memories of being scored at the last minute We have been more fearful and that is why it was a draw, “he said.
Mendilibar He pointed out that although this point does not “take them out of the poor”, they have to be satisfied with it and with having surpassed Valladolid in the goal coefficient, since the gunsmiths won in Zorrilla.
He acknowledged that, logically, it would have been better to add three, but having very fresh what happened to them last week in Pamplona, when they lost in the last minutes, he believes that the point “is always good”, even if it is not “much” playing in home.
The Biscayan coach referred to his defense's debut this year in LaLiga José Ángel Valdés “Cote”, who returns to the fields after seven months of injury. Mendilibar He said that he saw his player well and that he took “enough centers” and has given “a good note”, taking into account the time that “he has been standing”.
He reiterated that keeping the tie was not because he thought that direct rivals such as Huesca or Elche had lost this day, but taking into account that given the equality that there is a point in the First Division “it is important” at this point in the season.
In addition, he recognized that in the second half they had not been as “aggressive” as in the first and attributed it to a psychological issue. “It usually happens in everyone's heads, that we remember the things that have happened,” he said. Mendilibar, in relation to the loss to Osasuna so recent.
The Eibar coach also explained that this season his team has competed “in every game”, while in other years “there have been seven or eight” in which he could not compete, because he was losing by several goals difference. “Not winning makes you more cautious, and if you make a mistake they score a goal and it costs you more to lift,” he said.
Finally he chose to focus on the next match, in which he faces the Elche, of which he recalled that in the first round he won in Ipurua. And in the face of that confrontation, he said that we must avoid those moments of errors, “as happened today in the penalty” against Valladolid, and we must try not to “give options” to the rival and more taking into account what this year Eibar is “struggling” to score.