- By Alessandro Schiavone
Valerien Ismaël: Asprilla has to learn how be decisive with goals and assists
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By Alessandro Schiavone at Vicarage Road
Capital Football spoke to Watford head coach Valerien Ismaël ahead of the Hornets’ trip to Leeds United today. This is what he said:
On whether as a former top-level defender he preferred the goal galore in the first half-hour in the last match against WBA or the following two-thirds of the game with no goals but also no mistakes: “The whole game was great. The mentality, the players’ attitude, the desire…we wanted to get off to a great start which we did, scoring the first goal. Afterwards, it was a recurring theme as we made individual mistakes giving the opposition the chance to find a way back into the game. There’s a lot of quality in the Championship and teams take their chances. When you concede goals like you have to find a way to get back into the game, which we did but with hindsight I feel we should have killed the game off in the first half. Isma Kone had a great chance. In the second half things got harder as we made mistakes in our build-up play which allowed West Bromwich to find a routeback into contest, they even fancied their chances to score goals.”
On Yaser Asprilla’s impact after his introduction on 57 minutes: “Asprilla is a player who has the quality to make a difference but he needs to learn how to be decisive, whether that’s with a decisive pass or a goal. It’s down to us now to work with him so he can get to the next level…”
On facing his former squad West Bromwich Albion: “No [I didn’t feel I had a point to prove]. For us it was just the next league game. We were focused on that, I didn’t have any particular emotions going into that game. I just wanted to win it, like any game..”