Imanol Sheriff He did not put any buts to the fairness of the result and the merits of each other: “It is clear that it is a fair defeat, after having conceded four goals and for the number of occasions they have had”. He justifies the coach’s 4-1 arguing that “We have arrived very fair in strength” and that “when you come here you’re either cool or it’s complicated“. In his opinion, Real lacked “legs and oxygen” to hold the 0-1 that he got as soon as the match began.
“We had a good first half, but they scored two great goals in six minutes and it hurt us“, he argues Imanolwho thinks that the definitive blow of grace was 3-1 and more with the subsequent injury of Naïs Djouahra. The Oriotarra, in spite of everything, feels “proud of the attitude of the team“. Insists that “we came very fair from the previous games“.
Reveals Imanol to get ahead on the scoreboard”it was the plan” and that it did not suppose “no pressure”. The problem was the accumulated fatigue in the third game in seven days that the txuri urdin played: “We could not push up, they were going to massacre us”. He was not surprised by the goal of Oyarzabal because “we knew that we were going to have our options with the ball”, that is why he regrets not having been able to hold the 0-1 until the second half: “PIf we didn’t have an advantage, coming to the break would have given us extra energy”dice.
Imanol He believes that from now on, with weekly games, Real Madrid will give the true measure of their possibilities: “The good thing about staying out of the European tie is that we will have clean weeks, fresher legs and oxygen in every game” .
To end the press conference, the Real Sociedad coach defended his approach at the Santiago Bernabéu, emphatically assuring that he was not “fearful”.