Odair talks about defeat of Santos

O saints lost in Copa Sudamericanaand saw Newell’s Old Boys came out with a 1-0 win. Odair Hellmann leaving angry with the refereeing of the game, mainly with Alexis Herrera, which did not relieve coach Santos during the 90 minutes of the match. The alvinegro coach saw a difference in treatment compared to the rival commander and vented about the extra minutes.

In Odair Hellmann’s view, the match should have lasted more than four minutes. In addition, the Santos coach questioned Heinze’s behavior during the game and highlighted the difference in which Alexis Herrera dealt with his complaints and those of the Brazilian coach. In the view of the commander from Santos, there was a divergent behavior and that made him angry.

“Heinze spent the whole time talking, complaining, and when he (referee) gave four minutes of added time with VAR, with substitutions, with the game stopped, I turn to the fourth referee and say: “Only four minutes?”. They do it to make a gesture to the audience because the coach is there on the edge of the field. I’m a guy who tries to be as polite as possible, but there are times when we need to punctuate. We are punctuated every day, the professionals who are here, and arbitration also needs to be punctuated“, began the explanation.

According to him, the referee was unfair to Santos on several occasions: “I didn’t think four minutes of added time was fair. With all due respect, he can explain to me whatever he wants, but it wasn’t fair. He didn’t go through the defeat and, in the end, in a foul that creates danger, he ends the game. I went to tell him this, and he took advantage of the environment, the situation and gave me a card. He puts on a show and creates a situation for everyone, you go there and end up taking the card. Leave the arbitration behind“.

Even with the defeat and controversial arbitration, Odair Hellmann said he saw a “great match” by Santos!

Even with all the complaints, Odair Hellmann revealed that he was satisfied with what his team delivered. Even though the defeat left a bad feeling, the coach from Santos made a point of highlighting the way in which the team entered the field and the way in which it created goal opportunities. According to him, a better result did not come from details.

“The feeling is bad for the defeat, only. What I have to say here today, to everyone, to Santos fans, to everyone who is listening, is that Santos played a great match. We had organization, competition, we created five clear chances to score after three days without training, with travel and after the same game we did against America. This means that we are better, stronger, but we need to combine performance and performance with results. In the game against Grêmio, we also had a great game and we didn’t get the result, that makes us sad“, finished.