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It took 17 years for Jorge Fossati to return to Atanasio to face Atlético Nacional, despite the tie obtained by his team, River Plate de Montevideo, the Uruguayan coach stressed that they could not reconnoitre the stadium the day before and neither could they train at the stadium. playing field, due to the risk of electrical storms that this afternoon were concentrated in the capital of Antioquia.
“There was an abnormal situation here, I don’t know if it’s someone’s fault, but it was an abnormal situation. We did not know the field (Atanasio Girardot), yesterday we could not do recognition and to warm up the game, we could not do it on the field due to an electrical storm, which is not anyone’s fault, but when we entered the field, it was very heavy, “said Fossati at a press conference.
The coach expressed his dissatisfaction with this situation and had wanted the game to be postponed for a few minutes to have a better understanding of the Antioqueño grass. “I think, by common sense, you had to postpone about 30 minutes to play. Especially since at this time and in this city, there are usually a lot of electrical storms. Here someone was wrong, but the truth is that River Plate went out to play with total ignorance of the field, where we had to be intelligent, because the wear could be much greater ”.
Going into the matter of the game, Jorge commented that “we did not fall back, Nacional with its quality forced us to retreat, as it does with all teams. We saw four or five matches of the local tournament and they always do the same. To sum up, in the first half we had starred in an even match, where neither of us starred in dangerous options. We had approaches, like Nacional, but we could not overcome the rival defense, the goal came in a counterattack due to our bad decision. The game could be defined in details, in the second half, Atlético Nacional has 10 players, we have more space, we were superior until 1-1 and in the last minutes they turned to attack ”.
Juan Camilo Alvarez Serrano
FUTBOLRED correspondent
Medellin
On twitter: @ juanchoserran8
