Apr 29, 2024, 10:07 ET
Carlos Canobbio, coach of the surprising Progress who fights for the championship date by date Penarolrevealed two or three key points of his team’s campaign where He imposed the rule of not talking about relegation, using Liverpool as an example.
With five dates left until the end of the Apertura The La Teja team is one point behind Peñarol, which has one less game played. On the penultimate date the gauchos will visit the aurinegros in the Champion of the Century.
When analyzing Progreso’s campaign, coach Carlos Canobbio said in the program Minute 1 of Sports Carve: “I gave the players the example of Liverpool that, with a budget smaller than that of the big clubs last year, was champion from end to end.. And a message that we made clear was that if we started the tournament saying that we were going to fight relegation, we would start all the games 2-0 down.”
The coach added: “We approach training to be champions, I never told the players anything from the table below. I don’t know if we are candidates, but we are doing well to fight for the championship. The obligation to be champions lies with the big teams, but no one is going to keep us awake. “We are going to go game by game.”
In relation to the number of games where the team started losing and turned the game around, Canobbio commented: “This is due to never giving in, to going out and being protagonists in every game. In the match with Liverpool we always maintained the idea of going forward even though the pitch was not good because there was a lot of mud, but at all times we were in the game, we were protagonists, and superior to the rival.”
Canobbio praised the moment of Alex Silva – scorer of the winning goal against Liverpool – and spoke of Franco López, the championship’s scorer: “When we arrived, Franco was not playing much and we spoke with him because I think it’s all about confidence and Let the coach bench you. And that’s how we started to give him confidence. His is no coincidence because he is a crazy man who trains double shifts every day.”
Another Progreso maxim is that the coach told his players to forget about the referees. “I’m not going to talk more about the issue because last week I spoke a lot and I don’t like it when they take away anyone’s job, but it was clear that we were harmed. They don’t give me back those two points, but I put cold cloths on them, spoke to the players and told them to forget about it. I don’t dwell on those things anymore,” explained the coach.
Canobbio concluded: “Peñarol depends on themselves and us to win all the games to reach the penultimate game we have left with them with any chance. I have a team without many names, but that doesn’t worry me.”
