The selector of Argentina, Lionel Scalonicame out this Thursday in defense of his pupils after losing 2-1 against Paraguay, a rival he praised. “I’m not here to criticize my players, I’m here to support them,” declared Scaloni during a press conference after the match on the eleventh round of the playoffs played at the Defensores del Chaco stadium in Asunción.
“We knew it was going to be a complicated game and that’s it,” he said, trying to make light of the result. He insisted that he and his assistants are there to “give confidence” to the players. Asked about the match in the Paraguayan capital, Scaloni said that they were owners of the ball during the first half, a situation that changed after the second goal scored at the beginning of the complementary half and that he considered put “the game uphill.”
“We tried, which is the important thing. We tried in our own way, it wasn’t possible. We have to congratulate the rival and that is evident that they have defended well and have expert people,” added Scaloni, after admitting that it was “difficult for them.” “.
He does not want to look for excuses in the arbitration
Regarding refereeing, he admitted that he can “say a lot of things,” but he refrained from doing so so that people “don’t interpret it as an excuse.” “That’s it, it’s already happened and we all saw what happened on the field; that has nothing to do with the result that Paraguay won,” he acknowledged.
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Looking ahead to the commitment against Peru, this Tuesday, he anticipated that he is concerned with “correcting” and “looking at the things that can be improved.” However, he said that this is a rival “that is going to be totally different from this one, they play in a different way, with a different system” and acknowledged that “it has its difficulties, such as the South American qualifiers.”
