Fajardo: «Confidence in the coaching staff and the squad remains intact»

«We are experiencing a negative situation right now with three consecutive defeats but confidence in the coaching staff and the squad remains intact. We trust them 200 percent and from this dynamic we emerge rowing together and functioning once again as a team. On other occasions the team has remade itself and we are going to do it,” Fajardo pointed out in his first response.

Regarding the duel in San Sebastián, Fajardo considered that “it was a not very good match and in one fortuitous action and in a second in which once again the VAR referees They hurt Real Betis this season. We hope it is the last and that both Betis as an entity and its fans are respected. Real Sociedad, without doing much more than Betis, took the three points.”

«Obviously it is a negative dynamic, many situations come together. The casualties, which we have been adding for weeks, of important players for us, an image in Europe that does not correspond to what Betis should be… There are three consecutive defeats and from within we do a lot of self-criticism and show self-love. We are convinced that through maximum unity and with the support of each other we will get out of this dynamic,” said the Betic sports director.

«When you have three consecutive defeats it is because we are not giving what we have to give. To get out of this dynamic, the first thing is to be self-critical and we all have to take another step forward to get out of this dynamic,” Fajrdo continued analyzing, who stressed that “obviously injuries have a negative influence. Now we do not have Isco, Johnny Cardoso, Marc Roca, Fornals, William Carvalho, Bellerín available…. There are many players and they are important to achieve the objectives of this squad. In the arbitration issue we ask that the same criteria be applied to everyone. And if yesterday was a penalty it should have been the one they gave to Johnny against Las Palmas or to Fornals with Getafe or to Aitor at the Bernabéu. We must raise our voices and be looked at with the same criteria«.

Fajardo concluded by talking about this Wednesday’s Copa del Rey match against Sant Andreu. «Wednesday is like a final. In elite matches we can never underestimate the opponent and Sant Andreu arrives with the knife between its teeth. We must show maximum commitment and honor and show that we are superior, but on the field,” said Fajardo.