River Plate lost 2-0 to Deportivo Riestra at the farewell of the semester for the Millionaire in it Guillermo Laza Stadium. Those led by Martin Demichelis They did not take advantage of the opportunities they had, including a shot against the crossbar, and gave up three crucial points that made it impossible for them to remain as the sole leader of the team. Professional League.
At a press conference, the coach analyzed what the match left and made a self-criticism: “Along with the elimination of Temperley and the elimination of the League Cup quarterfinals, they are the three most painful. It is clear that it is not what we want to be. Riestra defends himself well and we couldn’t open him up. The second half was pretty bad. Obviously, the first ones who suffer are us: me, as a coach, the players and the fans. It’s not funny at all to come to Riestra’s field and lose the three points”.
Next, Demichelis was consulted about the results outside the Monumentalafter having lost their two matches in the competition in that condition: “We are a local team and a different visiting team. We have to do a mea culpa, an analysis between everyone. We were talking about it with the players. We had had ten days of good coexistence, of good training. Today, they opened the scoring for us with a lateral foul and then we couldn’t get in. “We will continue looking for that analysis because what remains is very encouraging.”
Later, Micho He said that he spoke with the leaders, something common after the meetings: “As always, before and after the game, they go down to the locker room to greet and support. I always talk to them, I don’t need to clarify it again. They are always before, during and after”. “Afterwards, I took the time to talk to the entire team because tomorrow we enter a rest period. What I can tell the fans is that we are going to work very hard from the first day of July. We are going to work to be what we are at home and be able to achieve it as a visitor. In the first instance, making a mea culpa and bending efforts. There is no other secret”, he stated.
The 43-year-old technical director sent a message to the fans for what is to come, with the focus on the round of 16 of the Libertadores Cup against Workshops: “I have no doubt that the pain generated by this defeat will make us go on vacation wanting to return. I know the reaction capacity that this group has, the aggressiveness, the highly experienced players who are there and the young people who want to grow. It’s going to hurt in the next few hours, but the team will show its face as River deserves.”. “I have no doubt that we will compete until the last date“, he stressed in reference to the Professional League, which he will only play again on the weekend of July 21 against Lanús in Núñez.
* The summary of Deportivo Riestra’s victory against River Plate
MORE STATEMENTS FROM MARTIN DEMICHELIS
The lament of the footballers in defeat: “The commitment is there, but it is difficult to show it with words when you lost on a field where River never lost. It hurts, the players are the main protagonists and it really hurts them to play the game they did in the second half and not take the lead in the first half. It is not a group that is divided, it works very well and knows how to coexist very well. Unfortunately, we do not represent on the playing field what we usually are. This institution deserves another party development. There we have to give much more.”
The return of Felipe Peña Biafore, who was on loan in Lanúsand the possible exits in the market: “We have decided to recover it, it is great news. When I started my management, I was part of the squad, but we all decided that I should go out and look for minutes. He did very well at Arsenal and later at Lanús, that’s why we decided to get him back. It is a great example for all the young people of the institution because there is no place for everyone. If they go out to certain clubs, we follow them and whoever does well deserves to return. He is one of them and we will count on him. Everything else is hypothetical things that are not concrete. I talk to the players every day and the things I have to talk to them I talk about internally.”
Your balance of the semester: “We played all 14 League Cup games, we got three points more than last year. Then, there is the painful elimination… We played the 6 games in the group stage and got 16 points, unlike 10 last year. At this point, we also had the same amount of points as of date 5 of the last championship because we had lost to Belgrano as a visitor and Arsenal as a home team. Hopefully we react the same way we did last year. We knew how to lift him up, show manliness and a great capacity for collective play. So I have no doubt that this team will show its face again in the Copa Libertadores, where we are going to play two very competitive games against Talleres.”
