Visibly limping, in fact I need help to get out of the Martínez Valero press area, Espanyol coach Vicente Moreno joked about his condition at the beginning of his conference: “They are things of the age, perhaps it is a muscular break. He did not injure me as a player. It was at the end of the game, he lives intensely”he commented.
Passionate like few others, the coach commented that “it was a Ferris wheel of feelings.” Espanyol did not fit in in the first half, when he was lost on the grass, unable to execute his plan. In other words, those of Moreno, “We had a clear game, but we did not take advantage of it. We did not know how to transfer it well and we were angry. Elche was better and hence the result”.
But in the second half, with the changes of Manu Morlanes and Nico Melamed, Espanyol enjoyed 35 remarkable minutes in which they could sentence. The technician, first, does not want to attribute what happened to the changes: “The easy thing is to talk about the changes, but if you assure me in the opposite way, you don’t know … We always put ourselves in the hypotheses. We were not well in the first and very well in the second. We were comfortable”.
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Vicente Moreno does recognize that the level was very high, and that the objective is to be able to prolong that “more game phases”. Not marking that 1-3 was the perica conviction. “When we had possession the game hit a change. There were about 35 minutes that we did enough to leave the game resolved, but you had to score three goals to go a safe distance and get away from the edge. We did not find that third goal.Despite this: “You have to assess the point, it’s a good team.”
The Espanyol coach, who continues without winning away from home (“we were close, we played good games”), positively valued the opening of Yangel Herrera and does not want to comment on the injury of Óscar Gil, which ended with discomfort in his substituted knee . “That is a medical issue. I can only talk about my case”, finished the technician, who said goodbye with a smile despite the fact that that Ferris wheel of feelings was still present.