{"id":604433,"date":"2025-09-13T23:24:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/marcelino-no-hem-sabut-sobreposar-nos-a-les-fallades-de-la-primera-part\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:10:07","slug":"marcelino-we-were-unable-to-overcome-the-mistakes-in-the-first-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/en\/marcelino-we-were-unable-to-overcome-the-mistakes-in-the-first-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcelino: “We were unable to overcome the mistakes in the first half”"},"content":{"protected":false,"blocks":[{"type":"heading","level":2,"text":"The Yellow Submarine head coach lamented the lack of finishing against Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Villarreal CF head coach Marcelino Garc\u00eda Toral spoke to the media to analyse the 2-0 defeat against Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Assessment"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"\u201cThe goal from Barrios so early did not change anything for us. 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In fact, we had several chances in the first half to score. We started the second half well, and just as we were dominating, the second goal arrived. Atl\u00e9tico were very clinical, although we also had several situations we should have avoided. They had moments of superiority and controlled the match more than we would have liked.\u201d The key: finishing \u201cThe key to beating Atl\u00e9tico is being clinical, and we were not. We had chances from Alberto Moleiro and Nicolas Pepe, but we did not convert them.\u201d Changes in midfield \u201cWith the substitutions, I was looking for different solutions. Honestly, with the score at 2-0, I thought of the match against Tottenham. We had to consider that some players were returning from injury, others from international duty\u2026 In addition, at that point we were lacking power and attacking presence in midfield, hence the changes. 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