Junior has already left behind the elimination of the home runs, after losing the passage to the final against Nacional in Medellín. Separate page and a few days of rest, before returning to action in the League of the second semester, to go for the new objective: the star of the end of the year.
The team from Barranquilla and Juan Cruz Real are already beginning to put together what will be the second semester, with their place on the bench ratified. The Argentine strategist spoke with the Saque Largo program, from Win Sports, about what the championship was like and the shortcomings on the court.
Championship balance: If I fail it is not to be champion, it was. If we analyze the performance of the team, the identity that the team achieved and thinking about the work time, where we fought until the end, the team achieved identity in a short time, with a lot of nuances, with the calendar and others. If we look only at the end result, it was failure.
More than recomposing, it is evolving. The big teams must seek to win and be champions. I am not going to avoid that, in these clubs we know what we are for. I am the driver of the project and I must take responsibility. I have to do a deep analysis.
We made mistakes at key moments, like in South America, which affected us at the start of the home run. That’s what we have to learn, when it comes to final instances, you have to hit a lot and miss a little.
Complications of the team playing away: It is not from this semester. Visiting Junior costs him, but we have to improve on that. It has been a good campaign at home. In performance we have improved, compared to visiting duels, but it is not enough for us to get the results. You have to have better results away from home. With the midfielders, I do not agree that they are only short defensive. I believe in the functionality of soccer players, that they can be in the middle and that they unfold, backwards and forwards.
Undoubtedly we handle numbers and statistics, it shows that Junior creates many scoring situations, but we have had low efficiency. We have been efficient in generating them, but not in making them concrete. One must have a good efficiency average, we have had seven situations per game to score a goal. Giving a name does not mean that it is the fault of an attacker. For a team to be reliable, it must distribute the number of goals among its players. We cannot depend on one or two players.
