The Real Madrid goalkeeper accepted the point achieved against Sevilla as good, but urged his team to “improve in not starting off losing”
Kepa avoided defeat at the Sánchez Pizjuán with a great save against Sergio Ramos
Kepa Arrizabalaga accepted Real Madrid’s point at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán against Sevilla (1-1), He urged his team to “get better at not starting out losing” and he has already focused on the Spanish soccer classic that will be played next day in Barcelona, to which he said they are going “with all the guarantees.”
“It was a game with a lot of back and forth, perhaps in the second half we played what they wanted more than us. In the first one we have controlled it. It is a difficult field, a game with a lot of pace that in the end we were able to tie after going behind. It’s a shame not to get the three points but we are left with the positive,” he analyzed on Real Madrid TV.
“We controlled the game well at the beginning, we overcame their pressure. We didn’t know what to expect from a team that had just changed its coach. We read the game well but in the second half it got out of control with fouls that were real and others that weren’t. It was more back and forth after losing control,” he added.
Kepa admitted that they must improve so as not to always concede first and have to be in tow, but he stayed with the combative spirit shown by the Madrid players to avoid the second defeat of the season.
“We always fight until the end, it is one of our characteristics. We have to improve on not starting off losing and then not having to come back. We have to continue improving, working together and make this tie good in the next game,” he said.
That match, in LaLiga EA Sports, will be the classic in Barcelona, although before that Real Madrid will face Braga in the Champions League. “Now the Champions League arrives, a very good opportunity to get first place on track in Braga in a match that will also be complicated. “We will have to show our best version and on Saturday the classic that we all like to play and to which we are going to go with all the guarantees.”
A great stretch by Kepa after a header from Sergio Ramos avoided defeat in Seville. The goalkeeper took credit away. “We know the danger of Sergio Ramos in aerial balls, we have studied it during the week and luckily he has not entered.”