Rafa Benítez spoke in the Bernabéu's press room, where he assessed his team's performance against Málaga: “These things happen in football. You dominate large parts of the game, you create loads of chances, but you can't hit the target and you end up with a goalless draw. The players carved out chances to score and take all three points. When a team sit back and defend, as happened in the second half, it becomes more difficult for you to find space, but even so we had a lot of clear goalscoring opportunities”.



"There were some nerves towards the end but for large parts of the game we attacked on both flanks, played one-twos inside and from those positions you have to swing in crosses, but we did create chances. Perhaps during the last five minutes, when we needed to keep our cool and continue playing and moving the ball around calmly, it wasn't easy. With that in mind, I must reiterate that we are still at the beginning of the season".



Isco's disallowed goal

“I didn't see if it crossed the line or not. There were two or three situations you could talk about. I won't say anything. A goal-line official for these kinds of scenarios and the goal-line technology used in other sports would always be helpful”.



Jesé

“He suffered from bad cramp, that's all there was to it. For the moment that's what we think the issue was".



He only made once change

"The team dominated, looked to play out wider and close down spaces for fullbacks and putting more people on when there were already quality players was not needed, nor was there much room. We could have added energy, but it was not a matter of energy, but rather of precision. The players on the pitch had enough quality but the goalkeeper had agreat game".