Deportivo Independiente Medellín sentenced its elimination in the 2022 BetPlay Cup at the hands of Millonarios, who managed to match the series after 0-2 in the first leg, but who, in the final moments of the second leg, the blue team was able to regain the advantage . At the end of the game, coach David González spoke about this series and was satisfied with the game, despite the elimination.
“I am left with a first half where Millonarios was not comfortable, they did not find spaces and they did not know what was happening. We have been understanding how to make rivals uncomfortable, we are being effective and we find our strikers easy to score. In the second half, with the expulsion, we had to handle the ball more, Millonarios closed spaces and that was what slowed down the game. We sinned in fouls, but I’m happy for what the team showed against a team that rarely happens to them in Colombia”, González remarked.
In addition, the strategist analyzed the five goals that have been scored against him in the last two games. “Of those five goals, four have been set pieces, two penalties and two free kicks. In the stopped ball or it is done very well, or anything that fails, they generate consequences. We try to minimize the errors, they are marking us, but we have to see how to adjust the defensive issue and the set piece”.
Thinking about the next match against América de Cali, for date 11 of the BetPlay II-2022 League, David specified that “the key is that the player does not stay with the elimination. The result hurts him, we had matched the series and that is what hurts. We have to stay with the game and the continuity that we had shown in the classic, that has to give us confidence, it shows that it is not something random and we are taking on an identity. We’re going through a quick elimination duel, the team is playing well and we’ll focus on what’s to come”.
For his part, Andrés Mosquera Marmolejo stressed that “there was no doubt in the order of the barrier, on impact of the ball the barrier is disorganized and the ball passes there for the goal. We have to keep the good image of the first half, we will be with our people against a great rival like America and we must focus to win and score points in the League”.
Juan Camilo Alvarez Serrano
FUTBOLRED Correspondent
Medellín
En Twitter: @juanchoserran8
