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"The result was painful"
Melendo, happy with his first minutes in the season, said that the team must continue on the same path
Two seasons ago Óscar Melendo made his debut in the First Division in Mendizorroza. Again, in the Alavés field, the Catalan played the first minutes this season. "I'm happy for the first few minutes, but sorry for the result, we could not turn it around. I tried to give what the coach asked me to do, play inside, give the last pass, but we could not come back."
One of the main protagonists of the match was the VAR. The Catalan player concedes that "it was an unusual situation, we were a little bit stopped and asleep, the two goals of Alavés came and then we could not come back". In any case, the '14' considers that the VAR "benefits football. It gave us the penalty that did not point the penalty and then he took the 0-2".
Melendo has indicated that "we know the mistakes we made, we played a great game, but we lacked clarity, we have to fix the details and face the Levante match with great enthusiasm". In this context, the midfielder believes that "playing well we won nine out of ten games. We had a lot of possession, reached to the area and they condemned us two details. We controlled the game, we had the ball and many approaches, we deserved the victory".
Finally, on his position in the field of play, Melendo explained that Rubi asks for "security at the start of the movement, have verticality, the last pass and score a goal".