The coach of River, Martin Demichelisexpressed his joy for the team’s classification to the quarterfinals of the Copa of the Professional Leaguebut he attacked those who criticized him for the performance of the Núñez cast in the initial stage.
In addition, he revealed a peculiar request that he had made to his players before the match: “In the technical talk, I asked them not to know the results of other games during halftime, because we depended on ourselves“.
However, the atmosphere became tense when a journalist questioned the words of Demichelis towards his players during the break, suggesting that they could have been a sign of lack of confidence in the team.
Visibly upset, the DT responded without filters: “Do you want to expose me?“. The exchange generated a moment of tension in the press room, making clear the coach’s passion and commitment to his team.
“Last time you asked me a pretty bad question, last time you asked me a rather ill-intentioned question, “So I’m not going to tell you what I told the players, it’s going to stay there.” he added to his answer.
“Sometimes there is a little bit of bad intention, you want to expose me… It’s there, in the locker room,” he said, preferring not to go much further into the tense back-and-forth with the journalist.
River won and went to the quarterfinals of the League Cup
River lost 1 to 0 as a visitor against Institutebut in the second half they turned it around and won 3 to 1, a result that allowed them to finish as the leader of Group A and move on to the quarterfinals of the competition.
Damian Puebla from a penalty, opened the scoring in favor of the Córdoba team. But in the complement, Facundo Colidio he turned the result around with a hat-trick, to give the classification to Millionaire a los playoffs.
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2024-04-16 12:55:46
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