And The Pumas They have the 24-hour rule, a period in which they experience the euphoria of victory or the disappointment of defeat and then get rid of those emotions, Felipe Contepomi He did everything possible not to let anyone notice what he experienced with his players in the locker room. He entered the conference late. Nobody was asking for his time, but after the historic match in Santa Fe, in which Argentia beat 40 points against Australiatime seemed to lose its urgency.
If it is a matter of time, what remains on the immediate calendar are the Springboks in two weeks. And although he is the cuckoo, the bad guy of the movie, an imaginary survey among the public asks them to be on the field right now. What will that match be like in Santiago del Estero?
“Against South Africa, in two weeks?” he asks. Contepomi when it answers precisely that question. And there is another sign that the coach does not want those 24 hours to end in which, in this case, they allow themselves to celebrate as much as possible a performance like yesterday’s. “We will evaluate it, it is a different style of rival, they have another game proposal. We are not going to change our way of playing or our principles,” he anticipated, riding not only on the dance against the Wallabies, but on the fact that it occurred after coming back from 17 points down.
The Mother of Cities of Santiago del Estero today sounds distant, but it is what is coming. By then he will have time to evaluate his players. For this match, Contepomi discarded those players who were not one hundred percent and the results are visible. During the week, you will hear the evaluations of the doctors about the players and will make a decision to see what game he plans against the South Africans.
“We are not going to change our way, but if we use our strengths we will think about their weaknesses… if they have them,” Contepomi admitted at the conference in which, despite everything, he pointed out that “There are aspects in which we want to improve”.
The game has two readings. The first, that of the unobjectionable result and the winning face of the team that is twinned with the one offered on the first date, when they beat the All Blacks in his land. The other, the first 28 minutes when the result spoke of a game that was not and that had Australia dominating with a 17-point advantage. Without the overwhelming second half, the end of the game cannot be explained.
“Nothing extraordinary or different happened at halftime. The players on the court, in the last 10 minutes, began to change. I don’t know whether to talk about tactical chaosbecause we had the intention but it was poorly channeled. But then she focused on what we wanted to do and how we were going to do it. We had to be convinced and we were,” she remarked.
But he went further and found the figure that best represents it. “We had to break the stone,” he summarized.. Is that the desired consistency? At least that’s what I had confided to Clarion At the beginning of his cycle, he wanted a consistent team.
“Today was not consistencybut a series of vulgar successes that, sustained, will give us consistency. It is understanding the idea, trusting, executing it and not changing when things don’t work out or falling into individual decisions. “Today is a sign of the will to support an idea,” he distinguished.