The president of Mouth, Juan Roman Riquelmevalued that the La Ribera team became a semi-finalist of the Argentine Cupwhile he complained about how “Xeneize” is required to qualify for the Libertadores Cup and that does not happen with the other Argentine teams.
“I don’t hear people talk about all the teams that have the obligation to go to the Libertadores. We dream of playing it every year and it is our obligation, but I don’t hear the same thing about all the teams”expressed in dialogue with TyC Sports after the defeat of Mouth facing Velez by 4 to 3 in Cordova.
Furthermore, he said that it is the first he has “self-criticism” and that “He takes responsibility for the fact that in the long tournament Boca has not done well”while for him it is notable that the team was a semifinalist last semester and the current one and he implied that from the outside it is not appreciated that it has reached that stage.
“In the last semester we were semi-finalists, now semi-finalists again, but if Boca becomes a semi-finalist, the title is not good. Like last year, we reached the final of the Copa Libertadores and it was a failure because we lost the final. “We have a lot to improve, we all have to be together. Let’s hope we can win.”he asserted.
When talking about the game, he considered that Velez had “luck” to stay with the victory and said:“We had a game with complicated situations. Going 2 to 0, a goal against, an expulsion… Everything was getting difficult. The team competed. Just as it had many mistakes, it had very good things. It is not easy to go 2 to 0 with one less player, to go on to win. In the end, with two centers they end up turning the game around for us.”
“We had the hope of reaching the final and we couldn’t. Now we have to think about the games we have left, try to do well, ask people to join us. We know that during the year we had good things and others not so much. I don’t live the way they want people to believe. We have been semi-finalists in the Argentine Cup, which is not easy. We were semi-finalists in the last tournament, when we had to play with Estudiantes, and the team competed well,” he noted.
Meanwhile, he commented: “It’s football. Nobody gets sent off because they want to. (Luis) Advíncula gave us a lot of joy. Today he had to be sent off for a double yellow. What is it going to be? These are things that happen. Soccer is sport. “I want to win, I always have the illusion that we are going to reach the final, I trust the boys.”
“Argentine football is very competitive. It is not easy to be in the semi-final or reach the final. We know very well that in the long tournament we have not done well. We have to be aware of that. We have three games left, we have to try to do it in the best way, win, finish as high as possible,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
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