At the beginning of the Conference League competition, Legia Warszawa defeated Real Betis 1-0 in front of its home audience after a goal by Steve Kapuadi. Coach Manuel Pellegrini spoke about his team’s defeat at the post-match press conference.
Legia Warszawa entered Thursday’s Conference League match against Real Betis after three games in a row without a win. The latest results did not inspire optimism before the meeting with such a demanding rival. However, as it turned out, the representative of the Spanish LaLiga was not so terrible at all, because he did not score a single goal that evening.
Gonçalo Feio’s team succeeded in this feat, taking the lead already in the 23rd minute of the match. Then, after a short corner kick, Rúben Vinagre decided to send the cross. The 25-year-old carried the ball into the Real penalty area, where a well-placed Steve Kapuadi was lying in wait, who then opened the scoring with a header.
Ultimately, we did not see any more goals at Łazienkowska, so Legia could enjoy its premiere and unexpected victory after the first round of the league phase. The team from Seville returns home in a bad mood.
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At the post-match press conference, her coach, Manuel Pellegrini, openly admitted that he expected more from his players.
– I expected more. We tried to play with the strikers to do some damage, but we hardly had any shots on goal. We weren’t creative or mobile against a team that defended well. We gave the impression that we could play another 90 minutes and we wouldn’t hurt them. That’s football, he said.
The experienced trainer also admitted that he was not surprised by this difficult ordeal.
– We know that Legia is strong at home, that its fans support it very much and we know that the quality of its players is high. For her, these are three very important points in her search for promotion. We knew that our opponent would not be easy. They deserved to win, they outperformed us offensively, he summed up.
