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América de Cali did not have a good week. He had come from drawing against Universidad Católica for the Copa Libertadores in Pascual Guerrero and this Saturday he fell 1-0 in Ibagué with Tolima who spent 54 minutes with one man less due to the expulsion of central defender Sergio Mosquera.
Although Juan Cruz Real had an alternate formation, it is undeniable that the scarlet team still does not show what its massive fans would like, which, just as it did at the time of knowing the name of the new coach, raises its voice again dissatisfied. Collectively, there is a long way to go, the same shortcomings of other commitments are repeated, and the Argentine acknowledged some of those aspects in the press conference after the match at the Murillo Toro.
Cruz Real affirmed that “logically when you lose you are not happy, today we try to put a mixed team, we had four youth players in the starting lineup, then others entered, we knew that with this rotation and thinking about international matches that we have was something we were going to do, anyway I think that until the moment of expulsion the team was playing a good game, a balanced game, I think the game plan was good, what happens is that it is costing us a lot some Situations that later make us have to row uphill, a team like Tolima that has a trade, defended well, then with one less player they defended even more, I think we look for all the alternatives in terms of changes, trying to go for outside, trying to find as much breadth as possible, we put people inside, today it was also played by two young people who debuted, Ortiz and Barreiro, and I think we try to do everything possible with the changes to subdue the rival, also in decisive plays Montero appeared, he prevented us from being able to tie the game and obviously we were left with a bitter taste ”.
About why his team is not making the best decisions at the time of defining, he pointed out that “that is actually costing us, even in the first half we had situations where we steal the ball in the opponent’s field, and undoubtedly in those last meters to Sometimes we are not deciding well, or we are not coordinating movements well, and that is a reality. We control the game in many moments of the games, but we are lacking that depth, that to do more damage to the rival, and we have to continue looking for alternatives, unfortunately with this permanently playing there is no time to train all those things, but undoubtedly it is something that we have to try to improve and despite everything we have control of the game, to be able to go deeper in those last meters of the field ”.
This Tuesday (7:30 pm) America will host Porto Alegre International for the Copa Libertadores at Easter, in what could be their last chance to stay alive, and the Colombian champion will have to improve a lot in two days. Could it be that Cruz Real achieves what at this point seems like a miracle?
Marco Antonio Garcés
Correspondent Futbolred Cali
On twitter: @marquitosgarces
