Marcelo Gallardocoach of Riverhe was very satisfied with the 4-1 win against Vélez in the Monumental for the last date of the Opening 2025 tournament and referred to the present of the team.
At a press conference, the doll analyzed the victory with goals from Driussi, Colidio, Fernández and Borja: “I really liked what we did today in the first half, I think it was a continuity of what we had been showing in the previous matches. It increases us as a team. We played with an opponent who proposed to play equally, we had good connections in attack and we were blunt in the goals. “
The DT expanded: “I really liked the first half, then I think that in the second we did not accommodate in the game, Vélez pressed us more and with some inaccuracies we committed more. Then with the rain, the game was developed in a way where we did not suffer too much but we did not create too much. What was done in the first half justified today’s victory“.
“We had to work hard on the approach of not losing sight of what had been doing and that everything we expected from our team expectation did not confuse us. You can’t confuse when you have convictionsand I am the first one that cannot be confused in relation to that: try to isolate itself from the context, opinion and criticism, “Gallardo said.
And he completed: “You have to take the constructive, that I value it a lot. I base myself on what I think and try to transmit it to the Players to follow an axis. I do consider that we had to continue insisting, but the thing was not similar to what they wanted to make us see, from there there must be a very large conviction. You have to continue building this moment that finds us getting good results and in still in the stage of consolidation, what I do not excite. You have to lose focus because when destructive criticism wants to harm, you don’t have to grab it.
In addition, the most winning coach in the club’s history referred to the partisan next Thursday against Barcelona in Guayaquil: “I hope to recover the players well, to the team, and that we can continue to maintain this football comeback. Go to Guayaquil mentalizing that we can go to win and get a good result. We already played two visitor games in Cup, the idea will be the same and try to make a good game and get a good victory in Guayaquil. “
Finally, the native of Merlo referred to how it doses the loads in a section of the year of so many games: “We are not a string, we are already in a permanent string of matches. I do consider that now We enter a line, at least from the local tournament, where there is a direct definition and we must sustain ourselves with what we were doing. Last week we had a string of three games and a trip to height, and we could get it over. We have to grab that and good things to continue raffling obstacles. Now to recover well for the trip to Guayaquil and, for later, the order is already placed to see if we can play on Monday since with one more day we could recover better. To face this string with the greatest possible ambition. “
The present of Sebastián Driussi: “I many times came here trying to communicate to you who saw some things that, from the outside, one also sees. They have an opinion and I have conviction, and when one has conviction in the work done, we had to continue insisting and in that insistence there is the conviction. To reach this moment of players that until very recently they were criticized, it needs to not lose the conviction. It makes me happy that those players were not very criticized. A good present.
Nacho Fernández’s party: “Talking about proper names will require that I answer individual players and for those players who, perhaps they had no minutes, it was necessary Players remained for so many years in River for their mentality.
The level of midfielders: “That is based on the continuity that the team has been having, at work and in fluidity. Hopefully we can continue playing in this way with the positive contagion that means in the players. Welcome are the processes that we have to endure so that the team begins to show a face that we all like”
Pity Martínez’s injury: “The Pity has suffered continuous episodes of injuries, at this time it is accompanied. Pity has always been very positive to be able to accompany the team from where it touches him, beyond his personal frustration of not being able to accompany the team. We have to accompany it until his streak of injuries can change and have that accompaniment that one has when things do not flow as one would like, and in this case the Pity is suffering from that place. Well and have it soon “
