The Albos coach assured that “we had to come and propose and seek a result” and added that “we were more protagonists than the rival”. Meanwhile, Pablo Solari revealed that ‘before we didn’t have this efficiency, but we worked hard to achieve it’.
The Copa Libertadores has never been easy for Chilean teams. Even less if the group stage is to start against a Brazilian team. For the same reason, Colo Colo made a dream debut.
Beyond the expulsion of Emiliano Amor and the last attempt between Carlo Villanueva and Esteban Pavez, the cacique collected three gold points and demonstrated the hierarchy required for this tournament.
“We work a lot for this. Before, we didn’t have this efficiency, but we worked hard to achieve it and now it works for us,” he said. Paul Solari in the official broadcast.
He then added that “we had to play a smart game and come to Brazil and win is not easy. So I am very happy for the group and we are sure that we will not make it easy for anyone and we will play with personality on any court”.
For its part, the technique Gustavo Quinteros He added that “the team was very organized and most of the duels were ours. Corn after 2-0, unconsciously, we went further back and thought the game was over and no it wasn’t, so I think we lacked intensity at that time. But I am very satisfied with the result. »
About playing on the court of the five-time world champions, the white coach revealed that “we had talked about the fact that today the team with the most history was Colo Colo and we had to come and propose and look for a result ”. Then he added that “the rival could smell the start and they were more passive in the first half, because we didn’t let them play in any other way, we were more organized and we were more protagonists than the rival” .
Finally, the captain of Popular -Gabriel Suazo- said that “we come from a big match at the local level and before going out on the pitch we said the same thing: it doesn’t matter if we play in Brazil, with more than 50,000 people against us, because our idea was to capture our game on the pitch”.
Colo Colo, in the Libertadores, will now have to play with Alianza Lima in the Monumental, next Tuesday at 6:00 p.m.
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