Colombia National Team: Juan Guillermo Cuadrado spoke about Néstor Lorenzo’s scolding | Colombia selection

The Colombia selection She went into the break obviously beaten by the good first half of Mexico, who took the lead with goals from Alexis Vega and Gerardo Arteaga. The speed took its toll on Colombia, which seemed leisurely and erratic in defense. However, at halftime, in addition to the three changes, Néstor Lorenzo also hit his players a ‘pull on the ears’. This is how Juan Guillermo Cuadrado told it.

Cuadrado spoke at the end of the game at Levi’s Stadium and confessed that something did happen at halftime. The Argentine coach ‘sang the table’ for them and exposed the mistakes that were being made. “It was spoken. The teacher scolded us a bit because we were a bit passive. We talked about what we had to believe, that we had a great team and I think that’s the temperament and the verraquera that God has given us”.

And he added that in the end, the balance turned out to be “very positive” ‘because the Colombian National Team debuted with a double victory in the Néstor Lorenzo era. “These friendlies and also the entire approach of the teacher that we followed 100% in the midst of adversity and this result fills us with confidence for what is to come,” said Cuadrado about the corrective measures they made to sign the comeback.

Néstor Lorenzo had also told the press conference that his players had promised “to play an intense game” and that everything happened because they were “arriving late in the play”. He tightened the screws at halftime, with the departure of James Rodríguez, Steven Alzate and Falcao García for Jorge Carrasca, Luis Sinisterra and Rafael Santos Borré, and the panorama changed.

“We were being lukewarm, and after 5 minutes we were already losing. Mexico hurt us and made us look very bad”, acknowledged the coach about why he did not like the first half and gave them a ‘pull on the ears’. “We talked about it, the commitment was to play for a thousand and we were playing for 200“.