TO Luis Enrique Martínezcoach of Paris Saint-Germainit did not sit well with them to be defeated by Atlético (1-2) in the last gasp of the match corresponding to matchday 4 of the Champions League. After the match, the Spanish coach appeared before different media outlets and, as usual, did not hold his tongue.
It is true that he was self-critical but, blinded by anger, in his statements he also left a trace of ironic contempt for Atlético’s game and his way of obtaining the victory: «Today was very funny, in quotes, to see how we conceded the goal. It was a joke. “We need 20 clear chances to score a goal, and the opponent sneezes and scores a goal for us.”
“I have no doubt in the fact that we are on the right pathin a series that is incredible and probably unprecedented, but the reality is that football does not reward scoring chances, football rewards goals. And that’s for sure, we are aware of that and we have to improve it, and I first of all,” Luis Enrique continued.
«I should watch the game in depth again. But it really is inexplicable what has happened to us during these three Champions League games at home. I would say that the best adjective is inexplicable, but also unfair», he added.
«The person responsible for creating 50 scoring opportunities in three games is the team and the person responsible for all this is the coach. If we don’t get results, I am responsible, I have no doubt. What am I going to do? I am going to do what I consider best so that my team continues creating scoring opportunities, continues to be better than the rival and continues to defend at a high level, but it is very difficult to explain a series of three games in the Champions League in which we were so superior to the rival and only score four goals in the end,” he lamented.
In this sense, he was blunt about his state of mind: «Today I feel screwedand the same for my players, but tomorrow will be the time to analyze the game with a cool head and get up after all this. Because it is difficult, with the current situation and dynamics, but we will try until the end, until the last minute.
«The rival closes and scores»
«We need 20 clear scoring opportunities to score, and the opponent closes in and scores. It’s the same dynamic every time and you have to accept it, think about get up and try again“There is no other possible option,” insisted the Asturian PSG coach, who answered very seriously to a journalist on the subject of whether they need another attacker.
«Help me if you have that player, that striker, where do I get him from? Those are the statistics of the Champions League and, from there, I am faithful to my ideas. The day I die in football, it will be with my ideas“Not with the ideas of a journalist or another coach, it is my ideas that have brought me here and they are the ideas that I will continue to follow,” he alluded to the fruitless attacks of his pupils.
In addition, he complained about Atleti’s performance. «They never came close to our area and they go and scoreso obviously it is a dynamic of something being done wrong. But I can only speak wonderfully about my players, with all the complications they had at the end of the game, with this goal that hurt us as would be the case in any other team, and above all a goal from an opponent who did not score. nothing. But you have to accept it, I repeat that this is football and you have to accept it. The faith of my players and the faith in the team is unbreakable, and I congratulate them until the last minute,” he reiterated.
«We have four Champions League games left and we are going to work until the end. If we qualify, very good; and, if not, the measures that must be taken will be taken, there is no doubt about that. I don’t work in the world of football being afraid, so I will go head-on until the last minute; and the day we can’t go any further, we won’t be able to,” Luis Enrique predicted from the press room.
«Everyone can draw whatever conclusions they want, I think that no one who has seen the game can say that it was a fair result. It is a totally unfair result, football is unfair, life is unfair And, from there, what can I improve? Starting tomorrow we’ll see, because today is very clearly a shit day. So tomorrow we will start to think about the things we can improve and surely yes, because yes, of course there are aspects to improve and we are going to prepare the remaining Champions League games as four finals,” he concluded.
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