Athetic Bilbao mananger Marcelo Bielsa: "We could have won" - La Liga news
Athletic boss, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Marcelo-c23554 Bielsa has stated that even though the final result was fair, they could have won the match against Red Bull Salzburg.
Bilbao managed to scrape a 2-2 draw against their hosts, coming back in to the game being two goals down at half time.
The draw takes them to the top of the group standings in their third Europa League Group F.
Two refereeing errors saved the match for Athletic caused a big controversy in which they were trailing the visitors. In a much heated encounter, referee http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ivan-c17215 Bebek took the cake.
Bebek gave two debatable penalties to Atletico in just six minutes, bringing them in a match they were bereft of creative abilities.
Marcelo Bielsa noted the result "is not bad, but not well" after analyzing "fully" the draw against Salzburg.
"We were fifteen minutes late with men, which allows us to think we could have won. But in football today is to appreciate the fact reversing a result of two goals when the differences between the teams are so brief," he Argentine coach analyzed.
However, he noted that they were defensively inefficient in the first 15 minutes, and this does not make up for their efforts for the other 75.
Athletic controlled the possession, especially in the first half, but got stuck in creating meaningful chances in the final third.
Reflecting on their inability to create goal scoring opportunities, the experienced manager reflected that possession does not always mean scoring situations. The opponent can stop the run of play and hinder build-ups with their defensive alignments.
The former Rosario coach added that the main deficiency in Athletic play was "physical football."
"The landscape of the game never offered a clear chance uprightly. It seems that lack explosion and what remains is to see where we are. We knew that we should not finish the attack where we started and it was not," Bielsa explained.
The experienced coach refrained from assessing the performance of the referee. Performance of the Croatian referee was labelled as “catastrophic” by Salzburg manager http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ricardo-c30950 Moniz.
Bielsa stated that he understood Moniz’s stance and this is part of the game, where referee award some team’s favours and some difficult decisions.
The draw takes them to the top of the group standings in their Europa League Group F, three points above PSG and Salzburg.
Tags: