Jordi Cruyff, the Yellow & Blue Head Coach looked back at the club’s 1:0 loss to Astana on Matchday 4 of the Europa League:
“I think that the team is showing character. We were by far the better team, 23 shots on goal 67% possession but they had one chance and scored.”
Disappointment:
“I know it’s popular to press the panic button. We are disappointed that we are out of Europe, but I know that if we can play like this we can win our games. We are over demanding our players and they gave 200%. If you play this game 10 times you’ll win 9/10, today however, we lost.”
Taking the good points:
“There were good points today getting Schoenfeld and Micha back and there will be more coming soon. They weren’t able to play more than 30 minutes. I’ll take the positives out of it and I believe that we deserved to win, but I will watch the game again. If we continue like this I believe that we will have a good season.”
Scoring goals:
“If the team gives 100% and gives it all, no one can complain as they did today. We just couldn’t score and it’s part of football. They defended well and we tried but we couldn’t score goals. The last two games we scored 8 goals, today we couldn’t.”
Transfer targets for the league:
“The league is our first priority and we don’t talk about transfer targets. You can read all of that on the Official Website. Right now we will focus on the league and we have an important game on Sunday.”
