Vicente Moreno, the glass half full and the lack of forcefulness

The match played at the Nueva Mirandilla was a roller coaster for Espanyol, as the matches they have played lately have been. A notable first part of the game, but weak in attack, as commented, without using that term, Vicente Moreno, who considers that there was the key to everything that came later: a Cádiz that came from behind and a parakeet team that saved a point in the last play of the match.

“It’s difficult to explain why we do so many things well so as not to leave the match resolved. And that at certain times we don’t do them and give life to the opposite”, synthesized, like a proverb, the Valencian coach: “The two goals are avoidable, we didn’t leave the match defined and these things happen. I was left with 2-2, which was not easy, we will take it for granted, but we should have resolved it much sooner“. Moreno commented that he leaves Cádiz with a “sour” feeling, but that he keeps the positive things: “The goals generating football is worth the same as with a rebound“.

Asked on more than one occasion about the team’s run and the defensive weakness of recent games, Moreno preferred to keep all the positives and look up: “Against Elche we deserved to win, in Mallorca we played a bad game. The team’s track record is good. We are near the top. Everything can be seen positively and negatively. I’m sticking with what the team did in the first half, but we have to get more out of it. I’ll stick with it.”

The coach, yes, clarified that “we come from a path in which we have too many errors that are penalizing us” and avoid using the verb “complain” about the lack of success of the forwards. The former Xerez coach, who was returning to Cádiz for the umpteenth time, commented that “there are times you can have a feeling, that with 0-3 you could allow things that you can’t with 0-1, but you have to have the blood in the eyes of wanting to kill and that forcefulness”.

Finally, the Valencian coach praised the match between Manu Morlanes, author of the 0-1 and playmaker until his physique withstood him: “Morlanes played a spectacular and superb game. The three in the middle lost their physicality and that contributed to us losing control of the game.”