“We needed to add three points against a direct rival”

Unai Emery, coach of Villarreal, He highlighted this Sunday that his team had “the need to add the three points against a direct rival” like the Real Betis, whom he beat 0-2 in a match that “had to work the game without having doubts in defense” to “avoid imbalances”.

Emery praised the “constant work during the ninety minutes” of his players, who he said had “played a competitive game” because the rival had “forced them to defend a little lower”, although it is a circumstance that has already flagged “in other occasions”.

“It was a challenge to stop their great offensive capacity,” the Basque coach stressed at a press conference, revealing that he had “ordered to be very strong in defense, in addition to taking advantage of the strategy and spaces in attack.”

For the preparer Villarreal, this has given them a victory that will allow them to “find their place in the League”, which “will place each team in the place it deserves”, although he added that “the League remains and there are many teams fighting for the third and fourth plazas”.

The winter market has allowed Emery “have alternatives and two players per position” in his squad, something that, he said, will be “key to find the performance that has been missing in the last month.”

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