River’s coach, Marcelo Gallardo, expressed his “disappointment” at the defeat in the superclásico and stated that “Boca took too much prize in a close match.”
Gallardo, in a post-match press conference, highlighted “the disappointment of losing a game that we controlled at times. The goal was missing. Our position of playing in Boca’s field was seen, covering their exits. We were a dangerous team when we had the ball and we generated, but could not convert. In the second half we went out to play in the same way, but their goal changed the game and we no longer had the same freshness”.
And he added that “Boca grew there, it gave him confidence and he defended well. Their goalkeeper responded well in the ones we had. They take too much prize in a close game, games are won with goals and they did it through a Our mistake. It was too much prize”.
Gallardo pointed out that Boca “is a rival of hierarchy and if the minutes are analyzed until they scored the goal, we were superior, we lacked efficiency to define”.
And he also acknowledged that “the rival showed a different face than in the last game and maybe I was wrong. We couldn’t be effective in the good we had done. After the goal we got confused, but since the game I’m calm. We continue to show that our idea will prevail through the result.”
? “Our idea will prevail beyond the result”
Marcelo Gallardo, at a press conference after the match at the Monumental ➡️ https://t.co/CyTXzAOGsopic.twitter.com/sVst1aN7XB
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“You have to get out of the mistake, sometimes it’s hard. Boca played with our needs and we got confused. This goes on, football goes on, and in football there are always mistakes. It was not our night, the game was there and we lacked efficiency. Rossi was important for Boca,” he stressed.
Gallardo stressed that “you have to remain calm. These situations do not confuse me, in the face of an adverse result, calm down. I defend my players and even more so when making mistakes, I am sure and convinced of what we are doing.”
And he explained that “before the game we were good, during and after the mistake we lost our ability to play. We have to stay calm, we lost a game, we didn’t lose our identity. We will do everything to be better, therefore, serenity. We made a figure for Boca’s goalkeeper, we lost by mistake, but the conviction is not lost.”
He also expressed that “our best moment of the game was in the first 50 minutes, then with the changes, beyond the fact that there were more people in attack, it doesn’t tell you anything. We won many games like that. I care about the generation of the game. Julián had three or four situations and he didn’t put it in. By speeding up the times and shortening the paths it leads to confusion. I don’t judge only by the result.”
Finally, he confided that “I told my players that we must raise our heads and continue working In general terms we were superior and we lost it due to a mistake”.
