Águilas Doradas de Rionegro and Envigado could not add three points in the matches that started the Betplay League 2022-1. The team from Eastern Antioquia drew 1-1 against Atlético Bucaramanga at home, while the team from the south of Valle de Aburrá lost 1-0 to América de Cali at the Pascual Guerrero stadium. What do the coaches of the Antioquia squads think after the start of this season?
Leonel is satisfied
The technical director of Águilas Doradas, Leonel Álvarez, who returned to lead a football team after almost four years, was satisfied with what his coaches showed in the first half and pointed out that one of the causes of the football downturn in the second 45 minutes was the loss of the ball and not defining the goal options that were created to increase the score. Given this, Bucaramanga won in space and with the ball still, which was his best tool in the game, tied the game.
“We have to improve in possession of the ball, be more precise, more forceful, and maintain that degree of concentration that is important for this kind of game. This is going fast and we must recover the points that were lost at home,” Álvarez said.
Leonel maintained that in order to find improvement, “repeats must be made, insist and believe in what we are doing. We have few training sections, but we are on the right track”.
Suarez is not worried
For his part, the Envigado coach, José Alberto Suárez, stated after his team’s defeat against América de Cali, that his team’s plan “was to play control football and score the goal that would make the difference on the counterattack.” ”.
Despite the result, he is optimistic about what his players have shown.
“The preseason work is reflected in the attitude of the boys and in order. We must be aware that we did not generate much, we did not have a 10 to help us in that work. I know that we are going to grow and move forward to achieve our goals in the future”, stated the coach.
Regarding the rival team’s goal play, Suárez criticized the VAR tool, since he argues that those in charge of making the line with which the offside is measured, plot it depending on the interests they have. “They make a very wide blue line and with that he did not seem like the advanced player, but I could even see with the technology well done if the goal was legitimate or not”, concluded the technical director
