The coach of the Real Society, Imanol Sheriffdid not share the vision of Vincent Brown about the play that preceded the winning goal for the Donostiarras and assured that what his collaborators who watched the match told him is that “It was Sorloth’s goal and Merino’s penalty”.
“the result is fair and I echo what they told me, that Alex Sorloth’s was a goal and that the penalty was a penalty but I couldn’t see it”, declared the txuri urdin coach after the match, who also stressed that “if someone deserved the victory by game and chances was us”.
Sheriff highlighted the defensive numbers and He recalled that Real is “one of the teams that generate fewer chances and the goalkeeper who stops the least because they shoot at us very little due to the enormous work that all the players do”.
“We have suffered more than necessary for not having success in the goal but we always say that, if you don’t score, at least the rival doesn’t generate you and it’s not easy to have so many clean sheets and that they generate so little for you”, Alguacil continued.
He described his team’s campaign as a “season” and refused to talk about other goals than the next game because “there are still 24 points left” and, regardless of how the season ends, he assured that his team is shining “even when the worst sensations were transmitted”.
Michael Merino was decisive in the result when suffering the penalty with which the referee sanctioned a fall of his in the area of the Spanish and Sheriff revealed that the Navarrese footballer, due to a foot injury, was about to not be summoned.
“Merino wasn’t there for 90 minutes and he told me that he would like to be on the bench in case it was needed. I started with Silva and Rafa and when the three of them are on the pitch at 100/100 there is a high level”, said the realistic coach proudly.