The bad game of Betis in Mestalla was summed up in less than ten fateful minutes of the second half, those from the first goal of Hugo Duro to the target of Diego Lopez that practically sentenced the duel. The analysis was unanimous and this is what Pellegrini understood in his appearances after the game in the mixed zone and the press room of the Che Coliseum. “I think that there were two very clear matches: a balanced first half with a tie and more chances on our part and a disastrous ten-minute second half. They scored three goals against us and I don’t know what happened, but those ten minutes were disastrous and the game was over.», valued the Chilean.
Before the meeting there was a very emotional atmosphere in its preludes, in memory of the victims of the DANAand what came next were two games in one, as the cliché goes and the Engineer analyzed. «It was a well-deserved tribute for all the people affected. There was a special atmosphere, we knew it and everything went as expected. There were two very clear times: in the first, which was even, we had more opportunities than them; and in the second, there was ten minutes difficult to understand and explain apart from the rarefied atmosphere that was experienced in the stands with people having heart attacks in the stands. They scored three goals for us that sealed it. “We continued fighting, but the difference was a lot,” he assumed.
Pellegrini did not look for subterfuges in the excuses for the absences, which were up to seven, many of them in the center of the field: «No, the team that had to play this game was this one. Bartra had a header alone, Abde had a one-on-one with the goalkeeper… We had a good first half, in which we tied at one and we had three clearer chances and they had one, but football is like that. It’s inexplicable. Those ten minutes are difficult to understand, but they happened», he resigned.
For there to be three goals in such a short time in the First Division, their own successes have to converge with other people’s errors. This is how the Betis coach saw it. «I reiterate again that it was a very special match with a lot of motivation for them. They achieved three points that will be very good for them. Scoring three goals in ten minutes is not easy. Then they didn’t have many more chances. They settled for that 4-1. These are things that happen in football. It is the rival’s merit but there were also our mismatches. “It was their turn today and they took the three points.”
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