Manuel Pellegrini showed his concern after the 1-1 in Las Palmas due to the numerous scoring opportunities that his team missed again, as happened in previous games, since only Giovani Lo Celso, who scored his fourth goal in just a week , is inspired before the rival goal.
“It seems like a movie that we have already seen, with sticks that do not fit. In the first half we had many chances inside the area that we could have finished them better and in the second we had two or three that were also very clear, like a header from Natan or the shot of Bakambu on the post. Except for the first fifteen minutes, when I think Las Palmas played very well and had a couple of chances without us having control of the game, we looked for different ways to win it. We were not satisfied. , but it’s always good to score points. I think the team’s performance, more or less, has remained even,” Pellegrini told the Movistar cameras after the game.
Regarding the penalty play against Johnny Cardoso that his players claimed for a knee in the face of Johnny Cardoso, he said the following: “I haven’t seen it. There is the referee, the VAR… I can’t give an opinion.”
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Las Palmas was better in the first twenty minutes, but then all the dominance was Betis: “They play at home and have very good players. They beat us at the start of the match. Maybe we were expecting them further back, they beat us at the start of the ball, but then it was more difficult for him to get there. If we add the number of chances, it was ample for our team. Except for those first minutes, I don’t remember a save from Rui Silva during the rest of the game. We had many in the first half. more chances. Maybe those in the second were clearer, but the number of chances we had in the first half was perhaps more important in their area.”
Regarding the possibility of Álvaro Valles being Betis’ goalkeeper in the future, Pellegrini did not want to get involved. “It is a question that I prefer not to answer because it is speculation. We have a well-covered goal and he is a Las Palmas player. I don’t know what is going to happen in the future.”