2023-09-15 05:08:00
Carlos Tevez was “happy” after Independiente’s great victory against Huracán, in a true final for permanence. ”The most important thing is that the team started to compete and people realize that. Today we won a final and the beautiful game is going to come. I feel happy and happy to be at Independiente, because when this club hugs you, it doesn’t let go of you anymore,” the coach confessed in the post-match press conference.
”Our game plan for tonight was to put pressure on the goalkeeper (Lucas Chaves), because he is the player with the best footing that Huracán has when it comes to starting from the back. And afterwards, the encouragement of the people made me want to play again,” he highlighted. Likewise, Apache did not hide their anger at how the fight to avoid relegation is treated: “I see that when the underdogs win, the one that is always complicated is Independiente and we are like eight teams. But it is always Independent. We live with that, but we must be humble and continue working, creating harmony for the squad, the team and the club to be able to work. Look for good things to continue growing.”
Continuing in that vein, Carlitos contradicted his Huracán colleague, Diego Martínez, for his statements in the opposite locker room. Minutes before, the Globo coach had declared: “It was an unfair defeat, even though it was an even process and a game of details. It seems to me that Independiente ends up taking too much of a prize for the way the match went. Although they pressured us and cut off the game circuit, I don’t feel that the team suffered and that the fairest thing would have been a draw.”
When asked about these sayings, Tevez did not mince words: “If you see the statistics, they only kicked the goal once. I can’t go against that. I have my vision, he has his and I respect it, but if the statistics show that you kicked the goal once, that means something. I don’t share his vision and I can’t do anything if he thinks like that.” Likewise, he warned: “We are good, compact and solid at heart, since they only scored two goals against us going backwards, because they went head-to-head with Gimnasia and Estudiantes. Although we still have to improve in the game, because today we always came out playing from behind and the aggressiveness is noticeable. And that makes you feel identified with the boys because they fight until the final minute.”
Then he made some individual references and in this regard he indicated that Ayrton Costa “resented and they will do studies on him” (he came out averaging the first half). “We asked him during the week if he was ready to play and he told us yes, but then he went through what happened. But Felipe Aguilar did some incredible days of training and replaced him very well.” And he added: ”And for the rest, I love (Iván) Marcone from the second half, and (Santiago) Toloza is quickly getting used to his new teammates. And it gives me great satisfaction that Joaquín Laso has changed whistles for applause, because it is all his, since he loves this club very much.”
Finally, he clarified that he does not feel like “anyone’s savior” and acknowledged that the setting and importance of the game they played made him want to play. “I am not anyone’s savior, they are the boys who are leaving their lives. You translate a game idea into your daily life and the boys adapted quickly. That is the most important. We have to continue in the same way, short steps and building forward.”
“I told them that I envied them because it was the first time they made me want to play a game. It hasn’t happened to me in a long time. That was it, conveying to them a little of the feeling I had, these finals, with a full field and everything. I wish I could touch that and feel that way of playing again. Today I don’t have it, but it is something that I transmitted to the boys. The whole team got involved and played this match like a final,” he concluded.
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