The UD Las Palmas was looking for the first victory of the season, but A first half marked by the apathy and defensive fragility of the yellows weighed down the locals in the second half. Some shortcomings that were highlighted Luis Carrion at a press conference. “The first half was by far the worst of the season, for many reasons. Badly prepared tactical situations, little energy in each action, too much weight given to conceding a goal, something I will never understand in my life… The first half is too much of a burden. I think this team has the potential to do much better than it has, as it has done in the second half. I’m angry with that, with myself and with the world because I think it can be greatly improved. I understand that this will not happen again.“, he said.
A poor performance in the first 45 minutes that improved in the second half, but did not lead to a comeback. “In the second, with a little more energy, we caused the expulsion, we scored the goal and the game started well. But when we conceded the third, the game slipped away from us. It was a game that was bad, especially in the first half, and better in the second, but not enough,” added the Yellows coach.
That change in the game was insufficient for Carrión and the Catalan coach He also blames the lack of energy and defensive fragility. “The lack of energy is everyone’s fault, including mine. We must work on tactical situations to give ourselves the opportunity to recover the ball in the best possible way if we don’t have it, and not just think about when we have the ball. And then to downplay everything a bit. I’ve heard a lot about how we haven’t won for a long time and, Surely, when we do things well, with and without the ball, we will be closer to winning. The first two goals were too easy. The first was a throw-in, the second a mismatch. It feels too easy. Every time we were robbed, there was an incredible feeling of fragility. We have to improve and we will improve that for sure,” he said. He added: “We have studied the subject of verticality in a lot of depth and that doesn’t have to make you defend poorly. His goals are not transitions. They are a throw-in, we are not good in duels, then a Jasper exit. We have to understand that we must have the ball to do damage, not to hurt ourselves.”
In a press conference focused on self-criticism, Luis Carrión also wanted to emphasize the importance of the mental aspect. “It’s probably all based on the mental aspect. You can be exhausted and if you have a goal you go for it, and in other cases not so much. It was an uncomfortable game from the start, we weren’t doing well, we were sad, we didn’t have the ball… In the game, things won’t always go the way we want them to. In Leganés, in the first half what we wanted happened and in the second half what we wanted didn’t happen and what happened happened,” he said. “It is a thought I have about myself. In life, very bad things can happen to you, but you cannot bow your head. I hope you always keep a clean sheet, but it will happen that the opponent scores a goal. We have to keep going because I have the feeling that that first goal led to the second and that everything we started doing well fell apart. And that cannot be.”concluded the Catalan coach.
Sandro: “In the first half, it wasn’t us”
Sandro Ramirezthe first yellow goal scorer of the match against Athletic, He was critical of the first half of the team. “In the first half we weren’t ourselves and it weakened us a little.“But we have to keep the positive attitude from the second half. We kept trying until the end,” he said after the match.
With his goal he brought the home team closer on the scoreboard, but it was not enough. “It seemed like we had it close with the 1-2 but in an isolated play they came in from the second line alone and scored the third. With that blow we scored again and we tried until the end, that is the positive thing we have to take away from it. The team has that winning spirit”the forward from Gran Canaria wanted to emphasize.
Despite the defeat, Sandro highlighted the good work of UD Las Palmas during the start of the season. “I think we are a very brave team, we are very clear about that. This year we are having many more chances because we are a team that seeks the goal from the beginning”he added.
The Gran Canarian forward, who He has already scored three goals this season and is in great form.. “On a personal level it’s great, but on a collective level we haven’t won for a long time, the people deserve it. The team is doing things well, but this is the First Division and it seems that we need to do a little more than what we are doing.”he noted.
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