Marcelo Gallardo praised River’s draw with Colo Colo and gave no clues for the Superclásico

Marcelo Gallardo praised River’s draw with Colo Colo and gave no clues for the Superclásico

September 18, 2024 – 10:26

River’s coach spoke at a post-match press conference, where he praised the draw his team achieved in Chile. He also gave no clues about the team he will field against Boca on Saturday.

Marcelo Gallardo He spoke at the press conference after the 1-1 draw of River with Colo-Colo for the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Libertadores Cup 2024The coach stressed the importance of not falling into such a hostile climate and did not leave any clues about the team he will put together for the match. Superclassic against Mouth on Saturday.

“The Copa Libertadores is experienced in this way, sometimes wrongly. We found a hostile climate. We focused on playing, we tried to do, or our position was to play and do our thing. Control the ball, press as high as possible, create two or three goal-scoring situations at the beginning to get ahead. We were not effective, then our goal came from a dead ball”the River coach began his analysis.

“We played against a very good team with its people and it is normal that sometimes these things happen. The team managed to push, they were losing and we could not control the game from our point of view.”commented on the draw he rescued during his visit to Chile.

“Now we have to think about what’s coming next. I think it’s a good result to come here against a very good team. We’re leaving with a draw. Everything will be decided at home with our fans and with the enthusiasm that will surely be generated by what’s at stake.”Gallardo concluded about the cup series.

Gallardo is already thinking about Boca, but he didn’t give any clues

Finally, the “Muñeco” did not give any clues about the team’s composition for the Superclassic in view of Mouththis Saturday.

“First, we’ll have to evaluate the conditions in which the players ended up today, and then see how we can recover as well. Knowing how important Saturday’s match is for us, for the fans, but in this series of very intense matches, with a lot of physical contact, there are also some matches that are logically tiring,” he commented on the matter.

“We will try to evaluate in the next few days who is ready to play. After Saturday we have one less day of recovery, meaning we have little time to recover so we have to evaluate carefully and I will make the decision in the hours before the match.”he assured.

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