Estonian coach: We played well in the first 60 minutes, but then collapsed due to too much fatigue

In the European qualifiers of the World Cup held early this morning, Estonia lost 0-5 to Italy away. After the game, Estonian national team coach Jurgen Hen was interviewed.

Estonia did not concede until the 58th minute in today's game, but then conceded 5 goals. Why are these two different manifestations?

We are full of motivation in the game, and it is a huge challenge against Italy. Italy is also very motivated. Their new coach just took office and they persisted until the end. And we had physical problems in the final stage of the game, giving our opponents too much offensive space and paid the price for it.

What else do you think the team can do better?

After falling behind 0-3, we also have a chance to score. In that case, we either continued to stick to the defense or strengthened our offense and tried to score goals, and the players chose the second approach. However, we cannot handle our opponent's physical strength in the final stages of the game.

Despite losing 5 goals, Estonia also has positive aspects in this game?

We performed very well in the first half and played very courageously. Next we need to analyze the performance in the second half, especially what happened after 0-1. At that time, we should have slowed down our opponent's game, but we chose to try to change the tactics, but we did not achieve results, but instead gave our opponent new energy, which was a lesson for us.

Italy shot up to 40 times in the game, 13 of which were on the right side and finally scored 5 goals. Estonia only had two shots in the game, and we played very well in the first 60 minutes and bravely took the ball. We will have to avoid similar crashes at home afterwards.

You made mistakes many times in the last stage of the game. Is this because the players were too tired at that time?

I think yes, after the substitution in Italy, our situation collapsed. The opponents make good use of this and create great difficulties for us.

source:7m cnvn