{"id":469615,"date":"2026-02-10T02:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469615\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:01:11","slug":"football-is-complicated-admits-marcelino-as-villarreal-end-winless-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469615\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFootball is complicated,\u201d admits Marcelino as Villarreal end winless run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marcelino expressed that he is \u201cvery satisfied\u201d after <a href=\"https:\/\/share.fromthespot.co.uk\/article\/villarreal-4-1-espanyol-mikautadze-kickstarts-rout-against-woeful-espanyol\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:his Villarreal side put four goals past Espanyol;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">his Villarreal side put four goals past Espanyol<\/a>, moving level on points with third-placed Atl\u00e9tico Madrid as a result.<\/p>\n<p>A dominant performance at the Estadio de la Cer\u00e1mica saw Villarreal take a two-goal lead into the break, doubling it before the hour mark as Espanyol\u2019s defence crumbled. Espanyol netted late through captain Leandro Cabrera, though it proved to be nothing but a consolation.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started really well with chances to get in front,\u201d the 60-year-old explained in his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen the first goal was quickly followed by the second, which gave us a lot of confidence. The second half started with two great goals and we gave them very few chances to score.<\/p>\n<p>Such a comprehensive victory comes at a crucial time for the Yellow Submarine, who bring an end to their three-game winless streak in LaLiga in emphatic style.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Marcelino admitted: \u201cWe needed to win. We were close to winning the games that we lost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lacked decisiveness while our opponents made the most of the chances they had.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday was different. We didn\u2019t concede and we were clinical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were coming off the back of a tough run that we didn\u2019t want, but football is complicated like that. Maintaining a rhythm for the whole season is difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a tough game that we played against the team placed sixth in LaLiga and we beat them in a clear and decisive way,\u201d he expressed, adding that \u201cthe fans can enjoy that one as well!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Villarreal have a great opportunity to build on Monday\u2019s victory, with their next three fixtures coming against teams sitting in the bottom half of the table before they head to the Spotify Camp Nou to face Barcelona on Saturday 28 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcelino expressed that he is \u201cvery satisfied\u201d after his Villarreal side put four goals past Espanyol, moving level&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[10972,64,63,937,12183,43876,239882,596,239883,239881,668,85,70960],"class_list":["post-469615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-barcelona","tag-dominant-performance","tag-espanyol","tag-estadio-de-la-ceramica","tag-football","tag-leandro-cabrera","tag-marcelino","tag-press-conference","tag-sports","tag-villarreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}