The parakeet coach took issue with Pacheco’s failure because “it has helped us a lot” at the start of the season
The Asturian believes that at least they should have gotten “a draw” from Heliodoro Rodríguez López, because they were “very superior”
The coach of RCD Espanyol, Luis Garciaregretted that his team will not get anything out of the visit to Tenerife (1-0)where they suffered their first defeat of the season, and downplayed the goalkeeper’s error Pacheco which meant the goal of Enric Gallego in the 16th minute of the first half.
“We had a great first half with a multitude of finishing situations of all kinds,” the Asturian coach said at a press conference, and although the goalkeeper’s mistake was a “bad decision-making,” he recalled that against the Albacete He stopped two penalties and in other games he has also “helped them a lot.”
García believes that at least they should have gotten “a tie” from the Heliodoro Rodríguez Lópezbecause they were “very superior” in that first period, although he acknowledged that in the second half “everything was a little even” because the Tenerife “The way they pressed changed,” although he stressed that the rival generated “very little” because they were “pretty good” defensively.
“We have created an awful lot of goal situations, in offensive production the team continues to clearly grow but we have been too hasty, imprecise in that last pass, and we have to continue working, because if we are able to repeat the numbers of these seven days , they are for promotion,” he added.
Luis Garcia complained about a “very clear penalty” not awarded in favor of the Spanish in a demolition Omar El Hilali “in which they hit him from behind in the calf.”
He also wanted to clarify when he said before the game that the climate could affect them. Tenerifebecause he had already experienced it as a player.
“I expressed myself poorly, I did not want to attack the islanders or Canary IslandsIn fact, you have to give a lot of value to what you have here, an extraordinary climate, always sunny, I even expected more heat, more humidity,” he concluded.