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Manager Maciej Skorza press conference after the match against Yokohama F. Marinos
Meiji Yasuda Mutual Life J1 League Section 22 Yokohama F･Marinos Battle Comment after the game
“I think we played a pretty good game today. I would like to pay tribute to the work of the players today. What we lacked today was the winning percentage, which meant we lost two important points.
It was a pleasure to watch the team play. Our goal against F. Marinos was to win, so that was a bad point. However, by gaining this one point, the gap between us and the leaders has narrowed from seven to six. Looking ahead, we will continue to prepare well for the upcoming matches. An important match awaits. Also, I want to create an environment for Shoya (Nakajima) to get used to it as soon as possible.”
[Question-and-answer session]
(Takahiro Sekine and Shinzo Koroki entered the second half and it became an overwhelming offensive, but did you have a plan from the beginning to put the game in the second half?)
“It was good to score in the first half or the second half. Our game plan was to win in the Koroki minutes. We played a very tough match on the weekend as well, which is why we came up with this plan today.I think Jose Kante and (Hayakawa) Junpei did a great job.”
(From the first half, it looked like you were attacking the space behind Éubel on the left side of the opponent, and even when defending, you were blocking Eubel quite a bit. Was it something you had prepared for this match?)
“Because of the short number of days between games, we were only able to practice tactics once. Giving instructions and actually carrying them out are two different things, but from the first half, (Tomoaki) Okubo and (Sakai) Hiroki made sure of that. He did it."
(It was a very aggressive match that was so tiring to watch that it was hard to believe that it was scoreless. You looked a little tired towards the end, but the flow of the game was pretty close to ideal, wasn't it?)
“In front of more than 42,000 spectators, we were still dreaming of the title and fighting for the win. I was going to go win.”
[Urawa Reds Official Media (URD:OM)]
“I think we played a pretty good game today. I would like to pay tribute to the work of the players today. What we lacked today was the winning percentage, which meant we lost two important points.
It was a pleasure to watch the team play. Our goal against F. Marinos was to win, so that was a bad point. However, by gaining this one point, the gap between us and the leaders has narrowed from seven to six. Looking ahead, we will continue to prepare well for the upcoming matches. An important match awaits. Also, I want to create an environment for Shoya (Nakajima) to get used to it as soon as possible.”
[Question-and-answer session]
(Takahiro Sekine and Shinzo Koroki entered the second half and it became an overwhelming offensive, but did you have a plan from the beginning to put the game in the second half?)
“It was good to score in the first half or the second half. Our game plan was to win in the Koroki minutes. We played a very tough match on the weekend as well, which is why we came up with this plan today.I think Jose Kante and (Hayakawa) Junpei did a great job.”
(From the first half, it looked like you were attacking the space behind Éubel on the left side of the opponent, and even when defending, you were blocking Eubel quite a bit. Was it something you had prepared for this match?)
“Because of the short number of days between games, we were only able to practice tactics once. Giving instructions and actually carrying them out are two different things, but from the first half, (Tomoaki) Okubo and (Sakai) Hiroki made sure of that. He did it."
(It was a very aggressive match that was so tiring to watch that it was hard to believe that it was scoreless. You looked a little tired towards the end, but the flow of the game was pretty close to ideal, wasn't it?)
“In front of more than 42,000 spectators, we were still dreaming of the title and fighting for the win. I was going to go win.”
[Urawa Reds Official Media (URD:OM)]
