El Cucho Hernández Reflects on Performance After Draw with Oviedo

El Cucho Hernández hit the woodwork twice against Oviedo, halting his streak of consecutive scoring matches in LaLiga. Following the game, despite being named MVP, he was highly critical of his team’s performance, noting their ongoing difficulty in securing victories against teams in the relegation zone, having drawn four times in four encounters. This match did not allow them to close the gap on the fifth-place team.

They nearly staged a comeback at the end: “Well, it lasted 90 minutes and we reacted in the last 10. That’s where we went wrong. We mistakenly thought we could tighten our game when we were hit. We erred in that regard. On a positive note, salvaging a point away from home is beneficial. We aimed for three, but it just wasn’t our day.”

On opportunities in the first half: “Yes, in the end, we had several chances, but we couldn’t convert. They scored on their first clear opportunity, which is how football works. If you don’t take your chances, you get punished, and that made the game more complicated for us. But at least we managed to rescue a point.”