Rayo Vallecano was defeated by UD Las Palmas (1-3) in the Estadio of Vallecasmatch corresponding to the 13th day of La Liga EA Sports. After the match, the coach of the franjirrojo team, Inigo Perezattended to the media.
Statements by Íñigo Pérez
“You can’t go away happy losing this game and conceding three goals. The pain grows, the feeling that you could have scored the goal on numerous occasions, but you haven’t. Effectiveness rules in football, we see it every weekend and they have been much more effective than us.”
“Effectiveness has ruled, it is almost always like that. The one who is most effective usually wins. You really imagine a game plan in which Rayo attacks constantly, I love that my team generates a volume of chances, then you have to get it right. Other times we have had it and we have not found it. It is not far from what one imagines when playing at home, but it is really a somewhat empty analysis because you have conceded three goals, you have lost against a direct rival and all the hope generated in what could have been and it doesn’t hurt.”
“Until the second goal we attacked well and regularly, the way we usually do it and I ask them to continually try to look for the outside lanes, if not for one then for another, if they open up too much for us look within, but it is true that with 2-0 it is difficult to manage. From the inside, the players, having a certain patience to continue attacking well and finding the goal and from the outside, perhaps not because of the names, but because of the changes, the disposition of each one. Maybe they are out of position, you send a certain message that you have to attack no matter what and many times you don’t attack better and even if you attack better it leaves you unprotected and gives rise to them finding themselves third and someone else.
“For me, the set piece is a vital section of football in which a lot of profit is achieved today. If you specialize and work on it, mechanize it, you are capable of making it a positive tool for you… Today it hurts me to receive two goals from a corner. We already received one in Mallorca, the first is a carbon copy because the teams analyze each other and see each other. We see where the weaknesses are and they have replicated it to us. The second is an accident, a miscalculation that in that area when you touch that ball what has happened can happen, but yes, it is painful to concede two goals from set pieces because I think that until now we were good, but we already have three in negative ”.
“The breaks in this case have to serve to alleviate this bitterness a little, then analyze it deeply and continue learning. I have told the players that we are a group that is going to receive these types of defeats, today unfairly or fairly, but we are going to receive them and it is in those moments when we have to be a very powerful group and push ourselves forward again. We will take this break this way to analyze, continue improving and stay together.”
“I think that competing every Sunday is appropriate, but it also has to serve as an excuse because perhaps we have had more time to prepare for a game in which a new coach has arrived and we could give more emphasis to the details. We have not made any profit out of it, so I prefer to play every Sunday, but the circumstance meant that no one wanted to play last week.”
