Mourinho makes honest admission After Elche 2-3 Real Madrid: “Of course I’m worried”

Mourinho makes honest admission After Elche 2-3 Real Madrid: “Of course I’m worried” Real Madrid spared their blushes on Tuesday, as they came away for their La Liga clash against Elche with a 3-2 victory . They had been 2-0 up thanks to goals from Matias Dituro (OG) and Kylian Mbappe , but after the hosts brought it back to 2-2, Los Blancos needed a stoppage time winner from Carlos Espi to claim the three points. After the match, head coach Jose Mourinho spoke to the media at the Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero. As per Diario AS , he delivered his assessment of the 90 minutes that took place between his Real Madrid side and Elche. “Three points and nothing more. It’s just Hala Madrid and nothing else. Obviously after the first half, we all had the feeling that we could score three, four or five in the second. But we lowered the intensity, we gave too much space and when Bellingham and Brahim came on, I tried to give consistency to the midfield, because Vinicius and Güler were tired. But when I was thinking about stability, they made it 1-2 and, in these full stadiums, the teams that seem dead… in one click they are alive. Then comes the 2-2. But we have a bench full of talent and different talents. I took a risk to the maximum… But a draw is useless. And we scored the goal with a very strong reaction. With that feeling that we couldn’t leave the points. The final stretch has been very strong. We have achieved the win we wanted.” Mourinho spoke further on Real Madrid’s second half collapse, admitting that he is concerned about it having happened in three consecutive matches. However, he was just as happy to see his side come away with the win. “It seems obvious to me. It’s easy to understand. They are finished games in which we have chances to kill, and we don’t kill. After not killing, we go from ease to not controlling. We haven’t scored. When everything seems easy, you leave things undone. The explanation I find is that if the game seems easy and you don’t finish it off, then you go down, you lose control, you misinterpret the ease. It can happen. Nothing is easy. “The players need to rest, tomorrow they have a day off. If we play badly, from one to 90, the concern is huge. If we have peak periods and others that are not proactive, of expectation, without intensity… Of course I’m worried (about the drop-off). But we won.” Mourinho praises Espi, Diomande and Tchouameni Mourinho also took the opportunity to praise the efforts of several of his players, starting with matchwinner Espi. “He’s doing well, he’s contributing to the team. He has a player ahead of him (Mbappe) who is not normal. Playing with the two together is not easy. If not, we don’t have players on the wings to be fast and the team loses balance. With the changes in the end, I risked everything. We won, we could have lost, but we had to do it.” Mourinho was also pleased with the performance of Yan Diomande, who got his first assist in Real Madrid colours for Mbappe’s goal. “He’s growing. Physically you can see that he has more minutes in his legs. He has a very good capacity for work, intelligence. He has done a great job.” He also spoke on Aurelien Tchouameni, who made his first start of the season at the Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero. “When the team has been good, he and Valverde have been good. They broke the pressure easily, with quality. But the match had two sides, or rather three, one until 0-2, another until 2-2 and another until the end. They have done a good job.”