Bilbao, Nov 3 (EFE).- Ernesto Valverde, coach of Athletic Club, congratulated his players despite having only achieved a draw in San Mamés against Real Betis (1-1) since he considered that they completed “a great game” and stressed that if they play “all the games like this” they will win “many” games this season.
“They are a good team. We made them look bad and we dominated them. Our game was a great game,” said the coach of the red and white team in his assessment of the match before admitting that in the final stretch of the game his players were already “very melted” by the effort made.
“We must congratulate them and all of us for the game we saw. In the end the team was very tired from the effort because we had to go many times without saving anything,” he explained.
The Athletic coach pointed out that, seeing Beñat Prados “very fair” and being “forced” to make the fifth change at that moment and introduce Andoni Gorosabel, he could not give a rest to a “quite tired” Iñaki Williams in the last minutes “.
Valverde, on the other hand, revealed that the discards from the call of Gorka Guruzeta and Mikel Jauregizar were motivated “in both cases by a lumbar problem.”
“Jaure came with some discomfort during the week and we had dosed him and in the case of Guruzeta the discomfort came from yesterday. They were both quite bad and we preferred not to force them taking into account next week’s games,” commented Valverde, remembering the European clash on Thursday in Bulgaria against Ludogorets and the league match on Sunday in Valladolid. EFE
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