Bitter closing of the day for millionaires. The albiazul team did not pass the draw at home against Sports Tolima and missed the chance to secure one of the top two championship spots to be seeded in home runs.
In this regard, the coach Alberto Gamero He gave his conclusions at a press conference. The samarium referred to the virtues of the rival, the positive aspects of his group and emphasized the medical condition of his two creatives:
Balance of the tie – We had said in the talk that this game could end up 1-0 winning Millonarios, 0-0, 1-1 or 0-1 winning Tolima. It was going to be very close. Today we face the two teams with the fewest goals. We try to elaborate and so do they, but in their field. We had the initiative from the right, from the left, the center, walls. I’m not going to say that they were the clearest options, but they were the clearest approaches to be able to score. It leaves me calm that we are facing a good team and Millonarios showed that it is too. We are on par with those games with young players, grassroots players. I wanted to win to go to the first place, but you have to give him credit that he came and stood up well.
Risks at the end of the match – This is a team that goes looking for, purposeful, looking for the rival goal. Today Bertel had a goal option, Rosales went out to shoot crosses. Even though they had supremely fast wingers and we still went out. In the second half we almost played from midfield to the rival goal. We never lost faith, so much so that we ended up playing with two strikers thinking that Tolima did the same. I saw that the filter was lost in the middle of the field for both teams, but we had the advantage of playing in the opposite field and we sent crosses from the sides. I decided to play with Márquez and Valencia at the top. We wanted to win the game, but they were a strong rival that is representing us well in the Copa Libertadores. I like that the team today brought out the caste and behaved up to the task, even though they didn’t win. We have another game at home to score points and stay in first place.
Doubts regarding the trip to Montería for Copa – I asked just now and he tells me that until now it is standing. We travel on Tuesday to Montería and go look for that classification.
Offensive variants – Today we had the two variants: fliers arriving-fliers 10 and striker, we ended up with strikers. In football, not only do you need midfielders to reach 10, today we had two midfielders who filtered many balls and reached the area; We had a Gómez who took the ball 2-3 times to the forwards and a 10-sectored midfielder like Cortés; two full-backs who were normally coming out. When I play the two strikers, Tolima does the same thing to me and we saw that in the middle both Pereira and Larry had no one to score and could elaborate. We looked for alternatives, we didn’t stay with our arms crossed thinking about a draw, although it served us well because it helped us score, we wanted to win and that’s why we ended up like this.
Double pivot to consolidate – We have the start of the game not only with Larry and Pereira but with our central defenders. I’ve always said that I don’t want a pretty start to the game but a progressive one, two or three touches and we skip lines. I don’t like my team in that safety zone of 4-5 five passes. Sometimes they have, sometimes they haven’t, but I don’t like it. The idea is that the rival presses us and we jump that line. With Larry-Pereira we have had that possibility that one enters the middle of the central defenders to come out playing. The games go by and I see that they understand each other better. We are hopeful that in these finals the two of them will have more games.
State of Mackalister Silva – He had an MRI today and he doesn’t have much. What he does have is a little shadow there on his thigh. We have this week to see how it evolves and see what to do with it.
Replacement of Daniel Ruiz – It was a cramp, that’s what the doctor told me. Tiredness. It seems to me that she ran sometimes more than necessary, but she did it, she fought and she did interesting things. We will wait until tomorrow for him to be checked in the medical department and sent for training. I think that both he and Macka are not serious.