“The defeat hurts, we apologize to the fans”

With a face of few friends, although with more poise than the one he had during the match while Villarreal’s goals were falling (5-1), Vicente Moreno cleared up the pessimism again despite the fact that the team has not won in 2022. “In the previous two games we were very good, regardless of the result. We cannot go from one extreme to the other. The feeling was different in previous weeks“, reflected the coach, who hopes that this defeat “does not take its toll” on the team.

But before talking about the future, the Valencian coach chose to apologize to the fans and make it clear that “I have no doubt that we will reach the goal“. “We have to prepare for next week’s game because we have to win. We were very excited, there are lively people and we were not up to the level of the fans. The first thing is to apologize to the fans. We were not, and this can happen in a field like Villarreal’s. There isn’t much else. We had that option to score, and that has to be done. We must not give away the goal options that we gave”, he commented.

Moreno made it clear that “Villarreal is far above us.” And he considers that the criticism will increase after this meeting because the team did not win any of the two games it played previously and that it deserved: “We competed against two top teams, with the feeling of deserving to win. Here we need the same or more competitiveness. But we weren’t close to perfection and with all those mistakes we threw the game away“.

The coach, who continues to be immersed in a crisis of results that buries him in the midfield, was categorical: “We didn’t do anything right. These games hurt, we have to show that it was just an accident.”