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Beto Company: "We have turned around a dynamic in the game that we did not like"

This was the post-match press conference of coach Beto Company after the tricolor victory against the Celta Fortuna.

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"In the first half, Celta came out very well and, although they are very young, they were precise and found us relatively easy on the wings. And sometimes we choose game plans and they don't always work out for us. At half-time we talked about how we had to press higher, be more aggressive and take risks, because going like this the most normal thing was that Celta would score. And from putting the highest pressure and making some modifications, they stopped playing comfortably. In the first minute we already made two recoveries in the opponent's field and it gave us confidence".

"We were successful and had a very good second half against a very good team that wanted to pass the ball and couldn't. I'm happy for the victory, for the clean-sheet, for the guys who gave their all and because we were able to raise a dynamic of the match that we weren't liking".

"From the 4-4-2 we wanted to work with the wing players at higher heights and force their full-backs to be lower. They have been very precise with the outside passes and in this 2v2 with their full-back and their winger and, in the end, this has forced us that if we didn't want to get hurt we had to defend with six players. And that's what we don't want. Then it is when we made the decision not to be more contemplative and press higher to prevent them from being able to play on our field calmly. And the only way to do it was to take risks".

"It's a team with very good players, many of whom will play in the first division and almost all of whom will probably play in the second division, but they have little experience and we had to take advantage of this. In the first half we were inferior, but we had some attack options that we didn't know how to take advantage of. And in the second half you could see that it was the Andorra we wanted and we had the ability to penalize them and defend well".

"There is something very important that we have been working on for days: managing states of frustration. Not everything can always go well for you and we have to learn to manage it better".

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