Actual Madrid star Jude Bellingham appeared misplaced for phrases after his facet fell to a 4-2 defeat to Benfica on Wednesday night time within the Champions League. The end result sees Los Blancos drop into the play-off spherical, and consequently, they may have two extra video games in February.
It was a chastening end result and efficiency, which supervisor . In Spain there was fierce criticism, however , calling their efficiency ’embarassing’.
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Jude Bellingham – ‘It’s horrible to lose like this’
A demoralised Bellingham spoke to after the match in Lisbon, devoid of positives or platitudes.
“It’s horrible to lose like this, on this method. Operating out of phrases for these video games now, we’ll should assessment it tomorrow and have a look at the targets we conceded and issues like that however yeah… Not a lot to say proper now, it’s nonetheless a bit uncooked. Don’t know what to assume, however I don’t know.”
‘We don’t do the fundamentals effectively’ – Bellingham
The England worldwide was requested whether or not one of many causes behind their defeat was the completely different ranges of depth between the 2 sides.
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“Yeah, 100%, that’s an element. They gained all of the duels, ran tougher, pressed higher, landed on second balls, the fundamental issues that we don’t do effectively. We’ve got a lot expertise, and gamers that may produce magic out of nowhere, however should you don’t do the fundamental issues, you’re going to get punished.”
“However what can we do? We’re right here now, we’ve discovered ourselves on this place, and you may moan, however we’re not within the prime eight. We’ve got to method the video games as in the event that they have been the identical depth as a quarter-final, we’ve got to hold on now.”
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Dean Huijsen: ‘Benfica have been higher than us’
In the meantime teammate Dean Huijsen appeared equally dispondent after the sport, admitting Benfica have been the higher facet.
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“I believe the entire sport, we’ve got to be sincere, Benfica have been higher than us, we didn’t play a superb sport. I believe that the goalkeeper scores for them, it’s written [in the script]. However they deserved to win, and we’ve got to work on ourselves.”
“Sure, we knew. We had a telephone on the bench, so we have been checking the scores the entire time. And I believe Sporting scored, and we knew we have been ninth. Now we’ve got to win these two video games, and put together in addition to doable. We have to work on ourselves.”