The Argentine coach Juan Cruz Real attended the post-match press conference in the company of Didier Moreno, and there he made it clear that leaving the club is not on his mind, especially when in the middle of the week they will fight for the ticket to the Cup final Betplay against Union Magdalena.
The coach referred to the harsh insults he received at the Metropolitano and the attempted attack by some fans from the stands, who threw bottles at him after the 0-0 draw with Pereira. The result left Junior’s fans very upset, and while tempers are running high, Juan Cruz assures that he will not throw in the towel so easily.
Approach and no answers: “We found ourselves a quite withdrawn team. I think they had a lot of the ball but they didn’t have the clarity to be able to break a low block. In the second half they had a little more depth, with occasions that we didn’t finish well, but we couldn’t break the The boys tried and with the variants we tried to look for options to win the game”.
Absence of Pajoy, Albornoz and Cabrera: “It’s not about being bad, you have to choose 18 and on the bench you had Sambueza, Deossa. You have to choose and basically it goes through there”.
Harsh comments and request from fans for his departure: “I understand people’s emotionality, we wanted to win and we needed to win, and we couldn’t achieve that. I’m headstrong, I’m not tired, I don’t abandon projects, and I don’t have the last word because the board is the one that makes the decisions. The more difficult things are, the more I stay. There is sadness about the result because we wanted to win, but tired of continuing to try, no”.
Balance of the Junior’s state of mind thinking about the Cup: “We wanted to win and it makes us sad not to be able to do it. We would like to be higher in the table but it is what it is. Once the games are over, what remains is to see what can be improved. You have to be very strong in the head and more At an important club, we know the demands there are. You fall down, get up, shake yourself off and continue”.