IManol Alguacil regretted that his Real Sociedad made such a bad start to the derby in San Maméswhich Athletic took advantage of to get ahead, because they later considered that it was an even match, in which both teams had few chances and neither took advantage of them.
This is how Imanol analyzed his team's defeat. “Athletic has been superior, it has been better, nothing more to say. It has not been a very different derby from many others, starting with the first equal goal, without many chances, but in the first 25 minutes I did not like the team at all, we did not come to play the derby, neither with the ball, nor without ball. Then, with the score at 1-0, I think the game was tied and we tried, but it couldn't be.”
They asked him about his team's bad start to San Mamés. “I don't know what happened. It's something strange, because we always enter the games well, but today we were far below our offensive and defensive level.”
Athletic has been much superior to us until the goal, then neither one team nor the other have been fine, brilliant
Imanol insisted that the difference on the field was until Athletic's goal. “I believe that until 1-0, Athletic has been much superior to us, because we have not done what we had to do, then it has been the typical derby, intense and difficult in which we had to be sharp to make chances and neither one nor Others we were brilliant, because there were hardly any chances but by then Athletic had already done what they had to do, which was to take the lead. What you have to do in these derbies is win them, so Athletic has done phenomenally.”
They told the realistic coach that Kubo's change was surprising, because he was being one of the few correct ones. “I respect your opinion, but for me no Real player played a brilliant game today. If I could have removed the 11, I would have removed the 11.”
They reminded him of the four consecutive defeats in San Mamés. “Athletic at home, almost always, if not always, plays very good games. I'm not very angry about the game after the goal, because we competed in the derby, but I am angry about those first 27 minutes, which were very bad.”
