Manuel Pellegrini He could not celebrate his 500th match with a victory and was firm in his statements. He drew against Barcelona leaves him “very bitter” because he considers that “Betis” had many possibilities win in Benito Villamarin.We lost two points. Very bitter about the result. We had four very clear chances, we didn’t convert them, we played at home and They drew us in a game where we deserved a wide win.. I don’t care who we play, I care how the team played and with that I am very glad, but we lacked to finalize with precision the possibilities we create.Barcelona in practice very little has been achieved in our goal, a goal that I don’t know was offside by half a centimeter, but we had it dominance, tense and arrival that we need to play this type of games,” commented the coach.
“We played a game very complete in terms of operation. “Barcelona”, no matter how difficult, how offensive, very little achieved our goal. Fran didn’t have any important interventions and their goalkeeper did a lot.We created a number of chances which is not easy for Barcelona to do Unfortunately, we conceded two goals again. In general The surgery leaves me very happy of the team and the result leaves me very bitter“The Chilean insisted.
A tie that invigorates. “We urgently needed a performance like today to get back to being an attacking team, the aggressive team we had for most of the league before the FIFA break, where we went seven games without defeat, we beat Atletico Madrid and Osasuna. ” with good results. , and, unfortunately, “We didn’t get the chances we created. The team needs to regain confidence with today’s game and hopes to get the three points.”
We urgently needed a performance like this afternoon
How to work on success. “The most important thing is that we got back to the team’s performance, we didn’t have it in the last games, and that leaves me very happy. The moment we were living with bad results makes us hurry in the definition. The glass is half full, very happy with the team attitude, football and a very bitter result, even if it was Barcelona, because we deserved better success.
500 parties. “I’m very happy in every way. First of all, I’ve worked for 20 years in Argentina, Chile and Ecuador, but it’s not easy to manage 20 years, especially in leagues like Europe , but I always ask for more and I think about the future is that I love everyone more Five years in Villarreal, Madrid, where we so we got points but we couldn’t go on… and then Málaga and Betis where I’m very grateful for the love of the people and what we’ve done to make it to the fifth year in Europe because the fans deserve it and we have to keep it going make it even bigger by giving Betis everything he can be as a coach.”
500 games is a record and we have to add to it by giving everything we are capable of.
Rui Silva’s injury. “He already had a bit of discomfort which didn’t stop him from training, but he felt more pain during the warm-up, let’s go and see the doctors examination, I don’t know if it will be too long or not, but it’s Christmas. The break is coming up and for now we have, luckily, Fran and Adrian in goal, he’ll have at least a couple of weeks because it’s on his shoulders and that’s very important for a goalkeeper.”
Isco Property: “We’ll see this week. Now we have to go to the Conference, so we’ll see how he copes with the effort. Just like Gio Lo Celso, who can’t play , we have important casualties, but I already see with great confidence that he will soon recover his level of football and the minutes he can play.”