América de Cali defeated Once Caldas 2-0 for date 9 of the I-2022 League at the Pascual Guerrero Stadium, with Alejandro Quintana scoring. The coach Juan Carlos Osorio with the changes fixed the game for the second half and in a press conference he analyzed the performance of his team, highlighting his scorer.
“Happy to have won, the score was very fair, when we made the decision to change the game structure, 3 plus 2 or 3-4-3, whatever you want to call it, with 3 players inside, occupying the central lane and the modification was to play more direct football with Alejandro, all credit to him, because one thing is what the strategist or the person who is making the decision thinks, another thing is that the player can execute it in the best way and I think that everything the credit goes to Alejandro.”
Then the ‘escarlata’ coach added: “he knows how to play very well in that double position of 9, I think that especially in this last item he showed his conditions, we are very happy for everything that the club has given him, but we are also very sad With Luis’s (Sánchez) injury, we believe that our ‘crack’ suffered a relapse and I personally feel very sad for Luis, but we’ll wait for the diagnosis tomorrow and obviously continue working to improve him and everyone. It seems that our biggest obstacle is keeping our players in optimal condition, if we achieve this we will have a very good team and continue to improve as we showed today”.
He was questioned about Iago Falque’s debut and this he replied: “Iago, like Luis, the idea was to play 45 minutes due to a suggestion to the medical department, I think Iago showed glimpses of what he can become, a very intelligent player with very good technique, he easily finds those close and those far away, I think that in his position it is not so important to play with intermediates, it seems to me that he showed that the club can contribute a lot to him and to continue working on it so that the next game is at least 15 more minutes”.
He also spoke about the next rival that will be the classic against Cali: “Personally, Cali seems to me to be suffering something similar to us, they have left 3-4 players, but I think they continue to have a very good team and a very good The coach, Mr. Dudamel, would think that today is better than it was on the day of the final, but the human resource has been decimated like ours and that is why perhaps it has suffered, but they have a great team, it is still a great strategist and we are going to prepare in the best way to hopefully have a very good game and continue to progress”.
Juan Andres Arias Arias
Correspondent Futbolred Cali
On Twitter: @AriasJuan_15
