Sapinto: Esteghlal was a fighter and deserved to win/ the referee should have given the first penalty to Kaedi

According to Fars sports reporter from AbadanAfter Esteghlal’s win against Sanat Naft Abadan, Ricardo Sapinto said: “We appeared well in the 15 minutes of the first half.” We behaved well, were fighters and controlled the game, but unfortunately we lost control of the game in the last 30 minutes and did not play well.

* The grass was tall!

He added: We exposed a lot of balls, we didn’t go for the second balls and it was like we didn’t have confidence at all. Between the two halves, I talked to the players to keep calm and believe in themselves. We have played quality games so far. We should have increased our mobility and speed. We knew that the opponent also plays well and is a fighter. The grass field also took the speed of the game and was long. It is not good for big teams who have control game and play fast.

* We didn’t have many chances, but we deserved to win

Sapinto said: I corrected a few things to use spaces between lines. In the second half, we started the game quickly. We appeared more than 18 steps behind. We didn’t create many chances, but we still deserved to win. We deserved to win with what we did in the second half. The opposing team tried to take advantage of our mistakes. They wanted to use every situation to create danger on our goal.

* Two penalties happened in that scene!

Esteghlal’s head coach said: “I didn’t see anything from our bench.” There was not a single penalty. There were two penalties. First on Qaidi and then on Ramadani. I lost three players for the next game. What I saw was this. A mistake is a yellow card! This is what I saw.

* The oilmen believed that they could do something against us

Sapinto stated that he lost three players because of the good play of the oil industry and the mistakes of his team’s players: “The players of the oil team really have a lot of courage. They have a high fighting spirit. They believed that they could do something against our team. Take advantage of a mistake by our defense and do good things with the ball to deserve a win. They fought well and were brave. It was a very difficult game for us, but as I said, every game is difficult. You have to use situations to score goals.

* A penalty is a penalty!

Regarding the fact that Esteghlal did not have a chance to score to deserve a win, he said: We had a penalty. This is your opinion!

Sapinto stated that he would not have protested the referee if this penalty had been taken against his own team: A penalty is a penalty. The first penalty should have been taken by the referee, but I respect your idea.

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