Mourinho: I'm worried about losing control, but we've won | OneFootball

José Mourinho spoke to the media in the press conference after Elche 2-3 Real Madrid, a match corresponding to matchday 6 of LaLiga EA Sports. The coach spoke about the team’s lapse, Espí’s performance, defensive fragility, and Diomandé’s minutes.

The team’s lapse

“It seems obvious to me. It’s easy to understand. These are games that are practically over, where we have chances to kill it off and we don’t. After failing to kill it off, we go from being comfortable to losing control. We didn’t score. When everything seems easy, you stop doing things properly. The explanation I find is that if the match seems easy and you don’t finish it off, then you drop off, lose control, and misread that sense of ease. It can happen. Nothing is easy. The players need to rest, tomorrow they have the day off. If we play badly from the first minute to the 90th, then the concern is huge. If we have top periods and others where we’re not proactive, just waiting, without intensity… of course it worries me. But we won”.

Espí’s performance

“He’s doing well, he’s contributing to the team. Ahead of him he has a player who isn’t normal. Playing with both of them together isn’t easy. Otherwise, we don’t have players out wide to be quick and the team loses balance. With the changes at the end I risked everything. We won, we could have lost, but it had to be done”.

Diomandé

“He’s improving. Physically, you can see he has more minutes in his legs. He has a very strong work rate, intelligence, and he did a great job”.

Defensive fragility

“It worries me in every match, not just looking ahead to Sunday. I like my team to score goals, to always score, with the exception of Betis. I like that. But I also like to control matches, I don’t like giving things away. Elche played well, they made changes that altered their structure. We have a bench with plenty of solutions and in ten minutes we had some very dangerous attacks. We scored, we won, three points, nothing more”.

Is Arda indispensable?

“No, nobody is indispensable. We were losing control when I made the changes, Vini had done a very good defensive job, he was very tired. And Arda, who was playing in that number 10 position, was also dropping in intensity. I brought on a fresh Jude and Brahim, and I did it at 0-2 but already sensing that we were losing control. That’s how it happens to us. And after that, we went with the heavy artillery and got it done”.

Tchouaméni

“When the team was doing well, he and Valverde were doing well. They broke the press easily, with quality. But the match had two sides, or rather three: one up to 0-2, another up to 2-2, and another until the end. They did a good job”.

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