Rodrigo HernandezManchester City midfielder, said this Wednesday, after qualifying for the semifinals of the Champions League (0-0), that he knew it was coming “to a battle, to a war” at the Wanda Metropolitano and pointed out that in football “everything is always lawful” when asked about his team’s wasting time, although he does not believe that his team did so “excessively”.
“It’s a giant step for us to get into the semifinals again. We knew we were coming to a battle, to a war. We have found the opponent we expected, very tough from the first minute. It wasn’t our best match.”assessed the player to ‘Movistar’, where he considered that his team “has paid for the effort” and is “a little tired” and admitted that his team has “suffered a little at the end”.
“We know that they play at home, that they have a great team, that they play fairly direct football. In the second part we have been inaccurate when it comes to lowering those balls and we have been penalized“, continued Rodri, who was also asked about the loss of time that his team made in the last minutes of the match.
“I think that in football everything is always lawful. It is clear that we have tried to play but due to the merit of the rival they have been locking us up behind. In the end, when there are five, ten minutes left, we have to play with those types of weapons. I am in favor of not doing it during the whole game, but the last minutes you have to play with this. I don’t think we’ve wasted too much time,” she added.
There was a brawl in the last minutes and then a confrontation in the locker room tunnel, in which the Police separated players from both teams. “We are all footballers and we know that what happens on the pitch stays on the pitch. We know that it is a game with a lot of pulsations, with a very short result, with them with options to pass and a bit of tangana has been mounted. Things that happen in football,” he said.
Their rival in the semifinals will be Real Madrid. “A match of high caliber against the thirteen times champion of Europewith all that it entails,” he explained.