The Albiceleste coach admitted that the defeat against Saudi Arabia had affected his teams. “All you have to do is get up,” he said.
Argentina wanted to celebrate their World Cup debut in Qatar, but they will have to wait. The Albiceleste lost 1-2 at the start of Group C of the Cup against Saudi Arabia with two goals scored at the start of the second half.
After the meeting, the coach of the transandinos, Lionel Scaloni, came out to try to explain what had happened. “It’s hard to take in. In four or five minutes they scored two goals for us, those were the only shots on target. All you have to do is get up. You must win the next two games. Today was a sad day, but lift your head and move on “, he underlined in a press conference at the end of the meeting.
“The first half was entirely up to us, offside situations at another point were a goal. At half-time we said to ourselves that the match was strange, we knew that a goal could change the landscape and that’s how it happened. They equalize us and in the next game they make it 2-1. Players suffer and think about the negative result “, recognized the trainer.
But the objective is far from changing. “We continue to think the same way as before the match. The World Cup has those things, there are times when you can be infinitely superior and it gets complicated in two parts. Beyond that, in the second half, we weren’t good. We always generate our situations in the atmosphere of the match.
“Losing is never good. Neither the first nor the second nor the third. The party does not escape us. There are no times to choose when to lose, let alone after positive momentum like the one we brought Scaloni continued.
“We were doing well, we couldn’t do better, but the big competitions don’t give you time to make mistakes. Today it happened like this. At the worst of times. All you have to do is get up, there is no other reading. You must win both games “, closed the DT
Lautaro Martínez: ‘The defeat hurts a lot’
One of the protagonists of the match was Lautaro Martínez. The Inter Milan striker scored twice, but both times VAR determined he did so from an advanced position.
“We lost the game because of our mistakes. Especially in the second half in the first we were able to score more than one goal”, he began by emphasizing in the official broadcast of the match.
“It’s the World Cup, now we have to rest and think about the two finals that are coming,” he continued, thinking of the matches against Mexico and Poland.
In turn, he made a group self-criticism for what was shown to the Saudis. “Today’s was a tough rival. That’s why we came out this way. In the second half, we were wrong. In the details the parts make the difference ”.
“defeat hurts a lot . We wanted to start this World Cup winning, but it’s over, now we have to correct, train and rest,” concluded Lautaro Martínez.
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