Millionaires sinned a lot in defense and lost to Juan Cruz Real’s Junior de Barranquilla, who was surrounded by criticism. The Argentine managed to win towards the end, when he did not suffer much against the ambassadors. Alberto Gamero and David Mackalister Silva were present at the press conference after the match where they highlighted that there are things to put together for Wednesday at home.
Alberto Gamero began by commenting that the mistakes were evident throughout the 90 minutes, ‘we made mistakes, but we wanted to overcome that with possession of the ball. These games where they are back and forth like today. Junior came to us, we were not very clear, but we always tried to come. I think that in the last minute we tied a game also because of their mistakes and they won the game for us’.
In addition, he commented that it is necessary to see what follows, ‘there is no need to lament, we must look, undoubtedly correct the defensive part we had a hard time, but also when we have a hard time there is another item that Junior gave us. At times, we with possession were arriving. With that ball at our feet we tried to defend ourselves well when Junior wanted to attack and with the ball at our feet we tried to get there. Unfortunately, the game is lost in a play that we were able to avoid better. We have to think about the games we have left at home’.
Later, David Mackalister Silva spoke about the defensive errors, ‘it is no secret to anyone that errors were made on all lines. When passing defensive holes, as we already have, our first defender is our striker. We have days to recover, improve and we have the possibility at home. We must keep our heads held high, this is part of life and since in life you have to overcome problems, we are going to overcome and leave this defeat behind’.
The changes, beyond that of Óscar Cortés and Jáder Valencia did not weigh. Richard Celis played only 18 minutes and Alberto Gamero replaced him. He explained that it was because of the risk of being left with one less man, since he already had a yellow card, ‘Celis’ change is very simple and we all saw it. Enter they get yellow, then another move that could have been for yellow and red, what we did not want was to be left with one less man. Same with Pearl. That change is made in football, nobody has said that when a player enters he cannot leave’.
Regarding Óscar Cortés, who recovered the ball for Jáder Valencia’s equalizer, he stated, ‘I think Cortés did a very good job out there. The same Guerra, who is not a right back, fulfilled it there. It cost Herazo last game because of the blow and Valencia gave the team much more depth and speed, and he collected himself well when he had to collect himself to associate with the midfielders. The Llinás thing, he came with a flu picture that we thought could be part time or less and he endured, Cuenú came in, he did things well ‘.
He concluded the game in this way, ‘I repeat, it was a game where you don’t look so much at the changes because there are games where you can do good things like we did today, but unfortunately you lose in the last minutes, two, three minutes of substitution and we leave empty handed’. Millionaires will have to improve a lot for what is coming, which will be to receive the Junior on Wednesday, June 8.
