Millonarios fulfilled the agenda in the 2022-II BetPlay League in a match against Deportivo Pereira, which, as has been the characteristic and custom of late, could not seal their classification and lost by the slightest difference at the Nemesio Camacho El Campín Stadium. The visiting team left great emotions in the first half to achieve the only goal.
In the complement, Millonarios tried to react, but they ran into an inspired Harlen Castillo who saved all the actions of the ambassadors and kept the victory, in addition to the award for best player on the court. The albiazul crisis was noted by Alberto Gamero’s goalscoring urgency. Luis Carlos Ruiz was brought in for that very reason, but the reality is another, leaving him to be duty-bound.
There are already six games without winning between the League and the BetPlay Cup, five of them at home are starting to set off alarms in the Millonarios crisis. He has three games left against Medellín at home, Tolima and Alianza Petrolera both as visitors. It would be unthinkable that those led by Alberto Gamero stay out of the final home runs, and the strategist is not really worried about that, convinced of being able to achieve classification.
Alberto Gamero entered the press conference after the fall against Deportivo Pereira and, despite the defeat, supported his team. The samarium began by saying, “I’m honest with you, I don’t know what’s going on. If there is something I am very sure of, it is that it is not football, I am clear about it. No matter how badly we play, at least we deserve to score a goal. Against Patriotas there were 18 shots, today 19… 37 shots in two games and not scoring a goal? Football is not. In two games they came to us twice, there is something good”.
He spoke about the planning from the first half, “in talk we said that we were going to find a Pereira who was going to attack us, but he was also going to leave us space. We didn’t take advantage of the spaces they gave us, we didn’t have that clarity, the midfielders could dominate the game and with the pairs of full-backs and wingers, we weren’t as effective as they were. Theirs were centers, and then the goal”.
A great controversy was to keep David Macalister Silva, who wanted to continue. Alberto Gamero respected his wish, but when he left the field of play, Gamero criticized him for continuing on the field, “He wanted to wait to see if he could continue playing, then we have the determination of yes or no. They told me that he has had a little discomfort and tomorrow (Thursday) we will take some tests, hopefully nothing bad. There are players who with a sore nail don’t want to play, but he didn’t want to go out, he wanted to play”.
Despite the fact that they have not sealed the classification, he has no doubt that they will play the next phase, “we are going to get in (for home runs). We have a team and we are convinced that we can get involved and we are going to fight for a Cup final with dignity. If there is something I must have with this group, it is peace of mind. We want to get out of this pothole. We have three games left to get into it”.
He reiterated his thought that Millonarios deserved more when he analyzed the defeat, “today we lost the duels, Pereira is a physical team. And they took over half the field with three flyers. When in the circuit of this Millionaires, I have always said it, the midfielders and the extremes do not work well, the team does not work well. That happened to us in the first half, Pereira took the ball from us and attacked us in transitions, it wasn’t that he elaborated on us either (…) In the second half we corrected. Today we made merits to score a goal and tie the game”.
Finally, he left a message of total support for his followers, “I know that the fan is angry. And we are also angry because we want to qualify, but I don’t see the team with my head down, much less me. Find me a game where we go out with our heads down to say ‘today they ran over us’. There isn’t, believe me I can’t find it. I repeat, in my opinion, this bump is not football. We do very good things, today we didn’t deserve to lose”.
