Ferran Costa has evaluated, in the press room, the defeat in the first league match of the tricolour team, which has fallen by 1-nil in Lezama against the Athletic Club B.
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"I hope that it will serve to calm down us and help us grow in many things. I think that we didn't start the game well, that we had mistakes with the ball and in basic aspects that cost us a goal and that made us not to be comfortable. I also think that the first 25 minutes of the second half were very, very good with five or six goals opportunities: we had Bilbao Athletic closed in their area and we were hurting them and creating danger. In the last minutes of the game, however, it cost us a lot and I think we lost control of the match again. It's not the game we wanted to play: I think we made a mistake that cost us the win and then we had moments where we could have equalized but we didn't get it right."
"I think that more than a lack of intensity, it is an excess of wanting to do things very well. I think we lacked a bit of order, especially on an emotional and mental level, to start stable and calm. It is not a matter of intensity, but the opposite, there has been a bit of overexcitement".
"The message does not change: this is a long way. There would be good days and bad days and we have to learn from them so that there are more good days than bad ones"
"We had some injury problems in the last days of the week. Clemente, Martí Vilà... Joel [Arumí] had a problem in the half-time and we made the adjustment with Diego [Alende] to have three players at the back and strengthen the team at set-pieces; this is the variant we have been looking for. We were a bit conditioned by these injuries, but I don't think it's an excuse."
"If we had won the message would have been the same. This is a very difficult category and playing away from home is very complicated. When you come to a stadium like this with players of such a level and such a high pace it is difficult and we have not been at our best. Serenor, analyze what we can take advantage of the game and, from there, grow that we have work".
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