This is nothing new, Alfredo Arias feels uncomfortable in press conferences when asked about issues that Deportivo Cali did not correct, which, despite producing the largest number of goal actions, ended on Thursday with 1-1 against Medellín at Atanasio Girardot.
It is obvious that there is a lack of efficiency to be defined and it is not a new problem, the same happened in last year’s campaign, eliminated from almost all competitions, only this time the leadership and the undefeated make for many to be details that pass unobserved.
Once the commitment was made, he was asked if Cali is superior, why he suffered with the changes, said “Bolillo” Gómez in DIM: “One inside sees him warmer, the analyzes must always be done cold, Medellín should come a lot more to attack us because he was losing, it’s his house, his field, they came to the table below us, that was normal, that he came to us in the last minutes, I think again we paid for the poor completion of games that we created a lot of them, in the first and second half we finished them well, because of the nerves, because of the hurry, we have to keep working, training that, because it is very important, it deserves the rival it -I had in front of him, he didn’t give up, he has good players and an excellent technical body, he will be again ”.
Why do you lose control of the ball? “I don’t think we lost control of the game, I don’t think we defined well, the last pass, we started to fail and it was logical for Medellín to come and attack us. The numbers do not lie, subjectively it may remain in the retina that Medellín attacked us in the last minutes until he scored the goal, but the numbers do not lie, we prevailed in the game, possession, shots on goal, the chances were created. The team played a great game, I want to congratulate my players, stay on this field against a rival like this. Playing to win, having the ball the way I had it, attacking it throughout the game, causing the opponent to make the five changes 20 minutes into the second half is not easy and my players did it. We have to correct the completion to be happier, we are among the goal, which in this championship is to be among the eight, we will continue ahead, on Sunday we will play again ”.
Regarding the added point, which fell rather like a defeat, with 9 minutes until the end of the match, he explained that “as the game happened, we are not happy, we went to the dressing room and my players were all in dressing, with a gacha head, this shows that we wanted to win, we did the merit to win, but it was a team in front, good players, a very good coach, we just couldn’t, but the team played well. I will say something that I hope will reach the Cali fan, I think the fan is happy, first, undefeated, I go out to play to win, to be the protagonist of the games, but sometimes it doesn’t happen, you can’t. Those who ask questions are not Cali fans, it is shown. Cali fan is happy, I address them when they come to a press conference, Cali fan. The others, there they are ”.
Cali will host Santa Fe on Sunday, February 28 (20:10), in the most striking commitment in the tenth round of the League, when the first is measured by one of the second, 4 points apart.
Marco Antonio Garcés
Football correspondent
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