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Real Madrid coach Santiago Solari was happy to be able to continue after his team recovered from a weekend-long defeat at Eibar, beating AS Roma 2-0 to win the Group G Champions League on Tuesday.
Football Football – Champions League – Group Stage – Group G – AS Roma v Real Madrid – Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy – 27 November 2018 Real Madrid Coach Santiago Solari reacts to REUTERS / Tony Gentile
ROME: Real Madrid coach Santiago Solari was happy to be able to continue after his team recovered after a weekend defeat to Eibar, beating AS Roma 2 -0 to win the Group G Champions League on Tuesday.
The 42-year-old's first match as permanent manager of the European champions ended in an embarrassing 3-0 defeat in the Basque Country on Saturday, a result that leaves Real in sixth place. six points behind the La Liga leader, Sevilla.
Goals from Gareth Bale and Lucas Vazquez in the second half sealed a win that secured Real first place in the section and ended Roma's undefeated eight-match circuit, while easing the loss to Eibar.
"It was important to go forward and we did it, showing a sense of responsibility as a team and as individuals," Solari said. at a press conference.
"The matches last 90 minutes, we knew how to evolve in the game."
Solari also said that his team had responded well to the panic that had almost led them to halftime, when Cengiz Under had suffered a flagrant lack as a result of a mistake by Dani Carvajal.
"They had an incredible chance after an error on our part, which we talked about in the locker room, and in the second half, we improved our accuracy," he said.
Solari also thinks that Real, who has won the Champions League in the last three seasons and has 13 European Cups, should be considered one of the main contenders for this edition, despite his agitated national campaign that led to the last dismissal of Julen Lopetegui. month.
"This is always the case, because of our history," added the Argentine coach. "It does not depend on how we played today or the other day, it depends on our 115. Real Madrid will be the favorite as long as no team will be equal to our number of titles. "
Real, who has 12 points, will top the group G, regardless of the results in the last round of matches, because of his performance in head-to-head against Roma. The Italians, with nine points, will finish second ahead of CSKA Moscow and Viktoria Plzen.
(Edited by Ken Ferris and Richard Martin)
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