Following Tonybet Virsliga’s 6th-round loss against FK Liepaja (0:1) Valmiera FC head coach Jurgis Kalns shared his comments and thoughts with the media.
Valmiera FC coach Jurģis Kalns: ”Thanks to the fans, they were great and deserve praise. If you want to talk about the game itself, then rewind the April 9 press conference and listen to the words of Auda’s coach. I like football precisely because you don’t have to play football, you have to move the ball forward and the result will come, but that’s not growth, we couldn’t play like that because we tend to do something else. For some, the result is important, for others, the growth of the players, and everyone is doing their own thing. I congratulate Liepaja on the second victory in a row – 1:0, 1:0. There will be 49% accurate passes, ok if 150 completed passes, but that’s football. This time they proved to be superior, they won. We started very well, took the ball under control, and created chances. We knew and said that Liepaja plays simply, pragmatically, penalties from all places, timeouts, and time are dragged out, it reminded us a little of Andorra. In every place where there is a penalty like in American football, we go forward in zones. We knew we analyzed, that’s why we thought more about the second balls. What I didn’t like – after a good start, there were two mistakes, we remained in awe and switched to a simpler football in our way, although there was no such requirement. When we collected the second ball, we had to put it on the ground, play football, and try to break the defense, you can see for yourself how they fly out, and how many free zones remain. The weather is also affected a bit, when there is sun, wind, and rain, playing football in such conditions is the saddest, everything changes and it is difficult to adapt. The story is that we adapted more to Liepaja’s game, rather than imposing our own. Their one free kick where we intercepted the ball, Sliede stepped on it, made a mistake, and earned a penalty – their kick on the goal frame and the goal, that was all. Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to score a goal, there weren’t as many moments today as there were in the game against Grobina. In any case, this opponent was to be taken.”
