The Qatari coach assured that at no time was the goal to reach the round of 16 of the World Cup. Félix Sánchez recalled, after the defeat against the Netherlands (0-2), that the selection represents a small country and that they also did well in two of their three games.
We are a country with about six thousand football licenses, so this situation was foreseen. At no point did we set ourselves the goal of reaching the knockout stages or the quarter-finals. We just wanted to get here and see what we could do. We played two good games against Senegal and against the Netherlands. in the first game [frente ao Equador] we weren’t on our level and we know it. You can use the statistics as you like, but we have to make our own assessments,” said the coach.
World Cup hosts Qatar finished bottom of Group A, having scored no points in their three matches.
