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The crisis has no end in Atlético Nacional, who was eliminated from the South American Cup at the hands of an applied River Plate from Uruguay. Montevideo was the scene of a new continental failure in which Pompilio Páez had to be in front after the departure of Juan Carlos Osorio last Sunday, at the end of the game, the coach accepted that they lacked hierarchy to assume this responsibility.
“I think that it was difficult for Nacional to adapt to the game, it was difficult for him to adapt to the field, to the game. Nacional has a lot of experience in international football, but there are many players who lack that touch. In Colombian soccer, you don’t normally compete the same as international soccer. You have to adapt to direct play with little elaboration, we made a lot of mistakes, we gave away practically two goals. We had to change the module, the structure, we began to take the game’s hand, we discounted, we were one goal away, during the second half we created options that we could not solve, it did not reach us, their goalkeeper was very attentive and unfortunately we received the third goal on a still ball that has cost us a lot lately. There are many things to correct, ”said Páez.
In addition, the strategist remarked that “we are sad about the elimination, we had a goal and it escaped us. Competing in an international tournament is different from an international tournament. The South American Cup, the Copa Libertadores is more of barons, direct play, without much space to play and in this game we had many problems with the injuries of several of our defenders. Now it was our turn with Brayan Córdoba and we gave Ewil Murillo the opportunity as a winger, he is beginning to receive information in professional football and he was the most viable option for the structure of the game, he has conditions and I hope he will contribute a lot to Nacional, that, with this kind of games, training sessions and the League, he can take that performance that he expects and that he brings to the team ”.
Finally, he spoke about the variations he made together with Alejandro Restrepo. “We make the changes when in a series you need a goal to qualify and we play with two points up, we release Baldomero (Perlaza) a little more, being a midfielder, to prolong a play, we use ends with a natural profile to reach the rival goal with a center, with an imbalance and in the end it really did not reach us and we were indebted to this international tournament and to the moment we wanted, to improve in the game and in the results ”.
Juan Camilo Alvarez Serrano
FUTBOLRED correspondent
Medellin
On twitter: @ juanchoserran8
