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When the referee whistled the break,

Luis Enrique

immediately went to the locker room.

He had spent the entire first half cursing the easy passing mistakes that his boys began to make after

Morata

's goal .

He didn't like what he saw at all.

What the national coach did not know is that that first part, bad, was heavenly music compared to what would come after the break.

And to analyze it, he entered the press room pissed off.

And he had no intention of hiding it.

"The game started very positively, we scored and defended with the ball, without endangering the opponent. At half-time I told the boys: 'be careful, these people are going to attack, they don't have any more nothing to lose'... but we haven't been able to manage it. We've gone into collapse mode and, if they had needed two more, they would have marked them for us. I have nothing to celebrate. We're in the round of 16, which was the goal, but I don't have nothing to celebrate", was his first response, and after this there was little more to say, but he did say something.

In theory, and despite the disaster that was the night at the Khalifa Stadium, the prize for the team is to get on the good side of the draw, a priori with less powerful teams than Argentina, Brazil (if it gets first this Friday).

"In football there are no good or bad sides. Today I am not happy at all. We have qualified, but I wanted to do it by winning and being first. Japan has completely dismasted us", he said, and has analyzed what happened after those five disastrous minutes.

The controversy of 2-1

"We have put forwards from inside, we have tried to generate, but when a team like Japan gets into their field and defends with that aggressiveness, any team in the world has a hard time. We have had some option, but it could not be. How do you manage a collapse mode? Well, trying to stop the game in some way, although this sport is sometimes inexplicable," said the Asturian, whose anger may pass when he sees himself among the 16 classified teams.

Luis Enrique was not aware that his team was out for three minutes.

"Yes? When have we been eliminated? Ah, what has Costa Rica been winning? Well, look, I haven't found out, because if not, I would have had a heart attack," he concluded, then starting to be somewhat more optimistic .

"Ten minutes of panic are not going to change my impression. My mission as a coach is to raise the morale of the boys, and when I see the game I'm sure I'll get positive things", he closed.

On the 2-1 play, where it seems that the ball comes out, Luis Enrique was ironic.

The press officer had shown him that image where you really see the entire ball out.

"That photo cannot be true, it is edited, or manipulated, it cannot be true. I have nothing to say, I have already seen that something strange was happening."

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