América de Cali suffered an unexpected defeat at home at the hands of La Equidad on the 17th in the Betplay League and seriously compromised his playoff qualification. He will have to defeat the Jaguars and Tolima in the next two days to reach him, but in terms of football, the team does not respond and the alarms have been sounded again.
After the match, Juan Cruz Real gave his role at a press conference: “Undoubtedly it is a result we did not expect, we wanted to win the game and we hoped to add 3 … We spent the whole game, we need to be clearer in the last third with teams coming to retire.”
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“We still have 6 points and we depend on ourselves, we have to raise our heads and win both games… At least we’re trying to find a foundation and rivals come to close and it’s hard for us to finish, “added the Argentine DT angrily.
He explained a change that generated controversy in the team: “Luis Paz had played a good game and we thought we had one player left because of the way Equidad stopped. The host team has always looked, always tried, but we still have to turn those scoring chances. “
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“It is normal, when a team is positioned next to its own goal, the spaces are smallIt is difficult to play against 8 or 9 players in our own area and it costs us, it is indisputable … It is difficult for us to solve, to unbalance and to break those defenses that stop this way. Unfortunately, this is football and that’s what happened, “said Cruz Real.
“You have to keep training, efficiency is essential. In the end, we are calm because the team comes out to propose, but I think that sometimes more value is given to those who seek error than to those who come out to propose “, he concluded in the middle of a disappointing Sunday. for Scarlet.