The Catalan outfit suffered a 3-2 defeat from a commanding position, bringing their tally to three losses against their name from their opening La Liga fixtures.
Espanyol lost their third La Liga fixture in a row and are deeply rooted in relegation slots with nothing to show for from their domestic outings.
After their latest match against Levante at the Ciutat de http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mauricio-c24899 Pochettino stated that they need to improve on their performances and look at their problems before it is too late.
The Argentine coach admitted that Los Parakeets find themselves in difficult times and they could not have hoped for a worse start to the 2012/13 La Liga season. He added that they need to analyze the situation and make the most of the coming international
break to sort of their problems.
"These are difficult times: three games with defeat and that is beyond my worst start, must be analyzed," Pochettino remarked.
Espanyol squandered a two-goal lead at half time to their rivals, who graciously replied with the first fifteen minutes of restart. Longo and Tejera’s strikes were ruled out by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Michel-c25453 completing the comeback for the hosts to give Los
Parakeets their third defeat in as many matches.
Analyzing their performance, Pochettino stated that after a good first half, Espanyol lost their intensity as they came back on the pitch and paid gravely for the mistake. He added that their disciplinary issues that saw yellow cards handed to them at will
made matters worse for them.
"It's hard to tell what happened, I can only think that after a very large part, the team is going to rest with five yellow and that the second condition, but dodged the responsibility for the defeat. The team lacked the intensity of the first half for a
new card could make you out to the street," he said.
When quizzed about the external factors limiting their abilities, Pochettino shared that at first they suffered from refereeing problems in their initial matches, and in their latest fixture failed to manage the threat posed by their rivals.
"I do not like to talk about this, but in the first three days we have not had luck with refereeing decisions. Now in ten minutes we were the match after the first goal of them, we failed to manage."
Espanyol take on the challenge of Athletic Bilbao in their next fixture at the Estadi Cornella-El Prat on September 16.
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