The coach of Real Betis, the Chilean Manuel Pellegrinidid not hide the satisfaction that he already showed on the pitch for his team’s display against Real Sociedad (0-4), he recalled after the tie that “lots of season left” and said that for him it is not yet time to give the team a grade.
“I am very happy to have qualified for the semifinals of the Cup. I don’t like to compare situations, because in two years there have been positive and also negative moments, and although today was an important night we must continue aspiring to have even more important nights”said the coach of the Sevillian team.
Pellegrini is proud of his team’s numbers, both offensively and defensively, and sees a “balanced” group in which everyone participates in defending and attackingThey know how to quickly change the chip when they have the ball and when they don’t and it’s in a very good game dynamic”, he acknowledged.
He gave a lot of credit to this result because he had a large number of absences due to injuries and international calls for his American players, so he valued this fact since “playing against Real with eight fewer players is a significant disadvantagebut the one who has to play responds”.
The Chilean coach does not want to put limits on his players and stated that the Verdiblanco team’s good image “comes from January of last year, that is more than a year with significant regularity and we have to aspire to everything”.
“There are still 16 games to play, there is the Cup semi-final and also the Europa League tie.but we have to finish the campaign well, which is the most important thing”, the Betis coach ended his appearance.