After the Uruguayan team accumulated its fourth match without winning or scoring goals, Ignacio Alonso spoke about Rosario’s present as coach of the national team.
Uruguay closed out a poor qualifying date. The Celeste, in charge of Marcelo Bielsa recorded a fall against Peru and a goalless draw against Ecuador, lor what it meant for the Uruguayans to accumulate their fourth match without winning (three draws and a defeat), nor converting in the process for the 2026 World Cup.
It is in this context that the president of the Uruguayan Football Federation (AUF), Ignacio Alonso, spoke about the future of the current Argentine coach.
“It was a good first half, you basically have to be calm for the rest. I am calm “, Alonso said during a press briefing outside the Centenario stadium.
After indicating that he had not spoken with Bielsa, he was asked if the trans-Andean and his coaching staff were at risk of being fired. The response from the Uruguayan football boss was blunt: “Forget it, we are third in the standings. If we start with these speculations, we’re all crazy “.
“Uruguay went four games without winning, in the Qualifiers, I’m worried, of course, these are results we don’t want and we didn’t convert, but we know we were going to go through a zone of turbulence without all the players available and we leave this area, but we are still in a privileged area of the table thanks to the very good start we made “, wide.
“Now we must close in this area this year, capitalizing on what we have achieved in this first part and close next year by closing the Qualifiers, very calmly,” concluded the president of the AUF.
Bielsa’s self-criticism
Although Marcelo Bielsa is supported by management, the coach was quite self-critical in his analysis of the double qualifying round. “Against Peru we saw an opaque version of our game . In the first half of today’s match we created seven goal situations, that’s a lot. This is even more true in today’s football. In the second half, we were unable to prolong this feeling of danger. We had the ball, we dominated, we were not overtaken, except in the last 15 minutes, but without creating any danger,” he declared at a press conference.
“In periods like the one we are going through, it is sometimes useful not to concede goals or situations. Guess that’s a lame justification, but that’s what I think. When a team goes through a losing streak, they sometimes lose games they should have won. The general assessment of the match is that we deserved to establish differences, I also consider that in these opposing sequences these matches are sometimes lost . “It’s not a consolation, it’s an explanation or an appreciation,” he explained.
“The conclusion that must remain definitive is that Uruguay, from my point of view, have better players than their rivals who we could not beat. When this happens, we must observe who is manipulating this material and failing to impose it. “, he continued.
On this point, he added that “it cannot be possible that we play well against the best and play badly against the worst. Today’s rival, for example, you have to see how he is rated, he has Hincapié, the Prime Minister’s full-back, the central defender of PSG, the confinement at Chelsea… he is not a minor rival .”
Now Bielsa must focus on preparing for the upcoming November games in which he will have to receive Colombia then visit Brazil two direct rivals in the fight for direct qualification to the Canada Cup, the United States and Mexico.
Source: Latercera
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