Vicente Moreno: “The action of the penalty was decisive”

Vicente Moreno did not want to enter the penalty play although he acknowledged that it was “decisive”. If he wanted, on the other hand, to make it clear that Barcelona forced Espanyol to play so far back and that with another approach it is not known what would have happened. At the same time, he valued a match in which Espanyol touched some point but still did not win away from the RCDE Stadium.

Do you feel ‘stolen’ by the action of the penalty?

I do not have much to say. The action was decisive. If we took that action away, I think we matured the game. We lacked tranquility, we had that play left over. We were going to find the game, we were close to winning, we were squeezing them.

Would they have won with another approach?

Or not. If we had done something different there would have been another result. We put ourselves in the one that interests us. The party plan was the one that has been given. If we had stitched, we would talk about how everything would be perfect.

Did you guys want to play so far back in the first half?

The rival forces you, sometimes you don’t mark it. They had difficulties with our line of five. We lacked having long possessions when we went to the opposite field. The game could be played like this, if we matured it we could win it. We wanted that effect to pass, with those circumstances and without that goal the game would be ours.

How did you prepare for the match as it was Xavi’s debut?

There are different things, we did not know how he would play, in fact the system he uses in Al Saad has changed. His way of playing is marked.

Did you talk to Dimata about the missed occasion?

I did not speak with him. Of ten shots he marks nine, but he touched the one that did not enter. We had enough chances to get that tie and maybe something else.