Lotina: “Atletico opened up the pitch and made the match tough on us”

Miguel Ángel Lotina, manager of Deportivo, appeared concerned and hurt by the loss and said that “I’m really down about the other results, but I’m not going to fall into the temptation of criticizing any other team or manager.”   To finish, Lotina justified the substitution of Guardado, criticized by the fans at the Riazor. “Guardado asked for the substitution and when he fell down he told us that he couldn’t last any longer. Lassad was going to take Valeron’s place, but when Guardado left Atletico were dominating and sending on Lassad would have been a big risk. We needed to play more together because Atleti were opening up the pitch and that’s where things got complicated. If we had left them alone, their superiority would have been clear.”