He marked the field. Carlos Tevez stressed Independiente’s intentions but not the execution. He also criticized himself after the team was eliminated by Estudiantes in the Argentinian Cup. “The culprit here is me, not the kids. Whenever it’s lost in this way, I take the main responsibility. “You can’t make the mistakes we made. “the coach said.
Carlitos feels the players haven’t settled into the rhythm he wants yet: “Sometimes we played very well, sometimes we were very inaccurate, but that was also a product of the intensity we were going for. “We wanted to bring joy to the people who came to Mendoza, but we couldn’t. “
The coach also wrote a special paragraph Matias JimenezHaving just scored three goals in two games, he missed a penalty due to a mishandling of the ball in the shootout: “He’ll just realize the mistakes he’s made. We are all in this together and we must keep fighting. We’re looking for more intensity. In the Independiente game we had three or four one-on-ones and they scored a goal from a dead ball. They came once and then didn’t hurt us. It’s no excuse because in football you have to score goals. What worries me a little bit is that in our pursuit of strength, we’re a little inaccurate. “
Apache didn’t hide his anger at being eliminated. “We always try to win games. What we need is courage to play. We are looking for an identity and that is the most important thing at the moment. “It hurts me because they tied us with a dead ball. “, he said. Carlitos said plans changed when Captain Marcone died suddenly of gastroenteritis. “We had a plan with Ivan and we had to change it. Melly (Ortiz) gave you breathing space in midfield, but his passing was very bad and we couldn’t control the ball,” he said. He asked to turn the page: “We have to keep our heads up because we’re going into the final against Huracan.”
All Tevez’s lines after being eliminated from the Argentina Cup
“Sometimes we played well and other times we were wildly inaccurate, but those guys came to Mendoza and we couldn’t. Now we have to keep our heads up because the final is coming“.
“Jimenez will only realize the mistakes he made. We are all in this together and we must keep fighting. We’re looking for more intensity. In the Independiente game we had three or four one-on-ones and they scored a goal from a dead ball. They came once and then didn’t hurt us. It’s no excuse because in football you have to score goals. What worries me a little bit is that in our pursuit of strength, we’re a little inaccurate. “
“We always try to win games. What we need is to encourage ourselves to play and encourage ourselves to want to win games. You have to understand the situation too, two weeks ago the technician left and I showed up. We are looking for an identity and that is the most important thing right now. “It hurt me because they tied us with a dead ball.”
“We had a plan with Ivan (Marcone) and we had to change it. Melli (Ortiz) played very well. He always plays well because he gives you chances to break through in the midfield . But his passing was terrible and we couldn’t keep the ball.”
“We have been working on dead balls. But we must move on“.
“Santiago (Tolosa) missed a face-to-face goal after a great game. I’m the culprit here, not the boys. Whenever it gets lost this way, I take the main responsibility. You can’t make the same mistakes we made“.