Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 11:48 p.m.
“We have done many things well, but any mistake penalizes you and, in this case, there have been two football accidents,” lamented Luis de la Fuente after suffering his first defeat with the senior team in his second game in charge of La Roja. “It has been a painful defeat. We still have to improve a lot, but I am delighted with the attitude of the players”, assured the coach from La Rioja, for whom the setback against Scotland “has to serve as experience”. “You have to get a positive reading,” he insisted.
“The first half has been dominated by everything we had been working on,” summarized De la Fuente, who preferred to stay “with the work and the feeling of danger that has been generated.” “You have to be optimistic. We have sown, there is an important seed and the future will bring us better experiences”, predicted the Spanish coach.
According to De la Fuente, who made up to eight changes in the eleven in Glasgow compared to his debut match against Norway at La Rosaleda, “you can always change things and improve”, but he said not to move “an inch from the idea transferred to the players. «I have seen them completely identified with her. For this group I bet a thousand times », he concluded.