The technician Gerardo Martino He was the great highlight in Mexico’s defeat over Colombia, which following leading 2-0 in the first half, suffered more than it might in the second half and ended up losing 2-3. The Argentine entered the dressing room amid insults, boos and various objects thrown at him from the stands, with the intention of attacking him. The defeat was expensive for ‘Tata’.
“When a team doesn’t win from the outside the perspective is totally different. We recognize that we lost a game that we won 2-0, I think that at no time did they erase us, we had 15 minutes where we were unfocused (…) We had the best first half in 4 years, even being able to have scored one more goal. That’s what I’m left with,” said the coach.
Martino made it clear that most of his players are from Liga MX, while Colombia had several world soccer figures. “It’s that when you have players like Eintracht Frankfurt’s number 9 (Rafael Santos Borré), like the Liverpool winger (Luis Díaz) and like the Juventus midfielder (Juan Guillermo Cuadrado), obviously there is a moment in the game where they go to weigh down the hierarchy they have. And those are the moments where we have to keep our composure, maintain order, not make mistakes, regain control of the ball”.
Finally, he acknowledged that “from the same hierarchy that Colombia has, what we have to do is find our high-ranking footballers to be able to endure these moments.”
