The central of the Real Valladolid Joaquin Fernandez has acknowledged this Thursday, at a press conference, that “no player was up to the task” in the match against Amorebieta, a recently promoted to the Second division who endorsed four goals to the Blanquivioleta team, after rising to ‘playoff’ positions.
As the Almeria player has confessed, the squad is affected after such a painful defeat (4-1), because they knew the virtues of the rival and were not able to counteract them, facilitating the game and making them strong in the aerial balls and in the lateral centers.
“There is no explanation. We knew what we were going to find, how Amorebieta was going to play and what we had to do, but we didn’t. We were very bad and each one should look at their navel to know where it went wrong and to be able to correct it “, Joaquín has specified.
The positive aspect is that there is hardly time to lick the wounds, since on Saturday they host Mirandés at the José Zorrilla “In a match that cannot be missed, in which the obligation is to win to continue to have the fans in favor and to remove this bad taste in the mouth.”
“We have to cut this feeling and pull it up again. It is clear that we must improve in all aspects, also when it comes to preventing the opponent from scoring goals,” he added. Joaquín, who has shown his “support” to Roberto Jiménez, the team’s starting goalkeeper, and his “confidence” towards him, as well as with regard to Masip, the only player who has not yet made his debut.
The Blanquivioleta central defender has warned that he wants to take this defeat against Amorebieta, as well as the one that occurred against another recently promoted, Burgos, “like an accident” and that the team faces these games against rivals, a priori, more accessible “with more concentration.”
He clarified that “the players who have less minutes to play, wanted to go out and were excited about the new opportunity”, because he considers that “there is a large and good squad and, therefore, there is no need to hide behind rotations.”
“Simply, we were all bad, and it is not that there was a lack of intensity, but we were not able to counteract their strengths and that penalized us a lot, with goals that were very similar to each other, “the Real Valladolid center-back qualified, for which it is evident that” we must improve the defense within the small area. “.
Joaquín has assured that he is already “fully recovered” from his injury and is “fine”, although he wants to “focus more and continue upwards”, putting this performance aside to think about the clash against Mirandés “in which Real Valladolid he has to win, so as not to put negative results on track, “he concluded.