West Ham United boss Julen Lopetegui reflects that If we want to beat Manchester City we have to be close to perfection
31/08/2024
London Stadium, London, UK
31/08/2024
London Stadium, London, UK
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00:30I have to see the match again but I think that we started very well the match, very well.
00:39We didn't score in this moment because again this kind of team you have to moment, you
00:43have to take advantage of this moment, if not it's very difficult.
00:47And after in the first it was not one chance because we had the ball and after one action
00:55we can do better for sure.
00:57This kind of team, this kind of gift, this team doesn't forgive you.
01:03So they score and we suffer, I think that we suffered 15 minutes that when we, they
01:12have chances to score the second goal after we draw and we finalised well the first half
01:19too.
01:20In the second half with the same players we changed a little details and I think that
01:25we did better.
01:26I repeat, I have to see the match but I think that we did really well against this kind
01:33of team.
01:34We had more passing, we were able to make long possession, to dominate, to have chances
01:41but you don't score against, you don't take advantage of moments against this kind of
01:45teams.
01:46In the end they are going to forgive or they are not going to forgive and they scored the
01:52first goal and the match was closed after this goal.
01:56It was a frustration because I think that the players make a big, big effort and in
02:04the second half in my opinion we deserved more but we play against one team that you
02:11want to beat them, you have to be very close of the perfection.
02:14They have a lot of solution, incredible players and a very good idea so I am frustrated because
02:26of the players, because they deserved more in the second half above all.
02:30You said that you thought you were better in the second half and you said you made some
02:34changes about that but can you tell us what the changes were that made you feel better?
02:38No we didn't change any position, with the same players we didn't change any position
02:43I think we did better.
02:44We have better set up to have the ball, better set up to defend them and they make a lot
02:50of overlaps always so we were able to defend better these gaps, these actions and after
02:57this we had more control with the ball and they suffered too but in this moment you have
03:03to take advantage.
03:04We didn't are able to do that and in the end they won.
03:10Although you talked about being frustrated, can you also take satisfaction from how hard
03:15you pushed them?
03:16Does that show the players are starting to understand your methods?
03:21When you lose you can stay happy, never.
03:25You ask me how we are, we are frustrated because we want to win today despite we know that
03:32it is very difficult to win this kind of matches and we work for that.
03:36It is true that we did good things, we have to keep the good things but it is not enough.
03:43You want to be a solid team, you want to be able to win this kind of matches, you need
03:50to be more solid and don't concede this kind of actions but ok we did and we have to work
04:03to keep the good things, looking forward but it is true that there are good things too
04:10in the team that we are going to keep with this.