The lions took little to change their mood. The 0-3 embedded on Thursday in San Mamés was a hard squeak but the farewell that taxed the stand to the team served as reconstituent. “I had a very hard stick on top, but the fans and how they have pushed us give me hope to face the second leg with enthusiasm. We know it is very difficult, but we are from Bilbao and we believe in the comeback. There are 90 minutes left, in football there are always surprises. It is true that it is a very favorable result for them, but I believe in this team. We will go there. Oscar de Marcos A few minutes after the hard defeat against Manchester United.
The costumes soaked from feeling expressed by his captain. Yesterday, Iñaki Williams He published a message of hope on his social networks: “Difficult? Yes. Impossible? No. 4,000 crazy will you be in Manchester to try to make it possible. Zergatik Ez? issues. Let's go to Old Trafford to give everything. ”
The lion who will become a captain next season after the withdrawal of the Laguardia side sent a request to the fans: “That they continue to have confidence and faith, it is being an exciting season. At first we would have signed to play some semis against Manchester United, who have that 10.9% of faith with which we started the Europa Title of the second competition at the beginning of the course.
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“Not even in the best of our dreams we would have thought to be in this situation. It is obviously complicated, but we continue to have faith and hope because this team has won it. This is football, we know that we can do it, it is difficult, but why not. We have enough reasons to believe. The team is in a very good final stretch, in a good dynamic, hope is the last thing we lose. When we go out of the They feel fear and the pressure that we are going for them, ”he said to Ruben Amorim's team, who looks at the continental title and his consequent place in the Champions League as a salvation table, a real burning nail to grab, after a very bad campaign in the premier with change of coach included.
Valverde He is always restrained in his words to the media, but on Thursday, with the disappointment of 0-3, he also advocated continuing to believe. “We take a very bad result, but we have to play it. We are not going to give anything lost, knowing that we have a very adverse result who we in front of us,” he said to a large number of local and English journalists in the San Mamés press room.
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His team gave him reasons to believe eleven against eleven. “If there was a difference, I was more for us than for them,” he said. The rojiblanco team went much better to the game and had up to three occasions to beat Drunk Before 0-1 marked by Casemiro and of the penalty and the expulsion of Vivian that caused the 0-2 noted by Bruno Fernandeswhich also made the third at the end of the first period.
The Lions tried to cut distances in the second, but the score was no longer moved. Now you have to pull faith to believe Old Trafford's feat. The prize is very juicy. Play the European final of San Mamés. Nothing more and nothing less.