After losing the Basque derby, Imanol Alguacil was critical of his team’s performance at a press conference:
Party: “Athletic has been superior and there is nothing to say. In the first 25 minutes I didn’t like the team at all because we didn’t come to play the derby, neither with the ball nor without the ball. It hasn’t been flashy, but it was very intense and had few opportunities, as derbies usually are. With 1-0 we tried, but we couldn’t get our hands on it.”
Equipment performance: “It’s something strange. We are a team that enters games well, but today for whatever reason we have been far below our level and so it is very complicated. Until 1-0, Athletic was much superior because it did what it had to do. Afterwards it was equalized, but by then they had done what they had to do. Whether the game is good or bad, what these derbies are about is winning and Athletic has done phenomenally there. “No one is surprised by the level they are giving because at home they play very good games and beat most of the rivals that come, in the League and now also in Europe.”
Four derbies in San Mamés losing: “Athletic at home almost always plays very good games, and wins more times than losing with any rival that comes both in the League and in Europe this year.”
Kubo change: “For me today, no Real player was brilliant, and if I could have removed the eleven, I would have removed them.”
Equipment Sawtooth: “Today we lost and we played 25 bad minutes, but then I’m not very angry about the game after minute 27 either, because we competed in the derby, but before we didn’t. A few very bad minutes, and then we competed in San Mamés against an Athletic team that was winning.”
Oyarzabal responds
After the coach’s intervention in the press room, it was Mikel Oyarzabal’s turn in the mixed zone, where he sent a message that sounded very much like a response to his coach’s words: “For four years, things have been costing us a lot and we are not ourselves. We still have to take a look at it from the beginning, from how we propose it, from what is the idea that we have from within and well, try to all do self-criticism.. In the field we must be aware that in the end Those who are there are us and those who take the chestnuts out of the fire when things are not going well. I think that We have been here for many years with the same error or in the same way and everyone has to look inward and each one make self-criticism in their own thing,” said the striker.
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