“I didn’t know if I was going to come,” River’s pressure and players’ mental health

“I was doubting whether or not it came to talk about the same. I said: ‘Well, I’m going to try to go and make it short.’ I don’t have much more to say this. “

Marcelo Gallardo He was restless at the press conference after 1-1 of his team with workshops in the Monumental. The lack of goal is made to the doll. It worries him. It doesn’t leave it alone. And so he let it know in the answers he provided.

“The analysis is clear: we generate expectation as a team that can produce more than it produces and does not specify what is produced and that is where we are clearly missing. It is something repetitive that is happening to us in this follow -up of matches, in the first third of what goes for the year. We generate good expectations but we do not specify and without goals you cannot win, then we are missing that. Do we play better than the rivals? Yes Do we generate more situations? Yeahbut we don’t specify. And in that non -concretion is the difficulty of continuing to seek. We try to organize to find in each party and generate situations but without concretion. It is repetitive, “River coach analyzed.

Gallardo, like last Tuesday against Barcelona, ​​for the Copa Libertadores, believes that his team made enough merits to win the game, which generated situations but that he failed again in the rival area.

“The arrival of the goal would solve a lot of things, clearly,” said the DT. Which is it? “It would give us peace of mind, I would give confidence to the players and give us a portion of that need not to have to weary when it comes to the permanent search.”

He added: “The goal gives you the possibility of trust, recognition that the good you do is fruit: if you do nothing to win we would be worried, but the merits are made to win and we are not translating it into the expectation that we all have. That worries us because at some point that streak has to be cut, but we cannot fall into disappointment.”

And when asked by Miguel Borja, the striker who gave him that goal that River needed so much, the native of Merlo replied: “I make decisions according to what I see, I am in permanent communication with the players and if I see that they have to leave, they leave so that they have a different impact when they enter. I would love that we are talking about the large number of situations that we generate and that they all turn goals, not only. We cannot be borjadependent of the goalswe have not made the amount we want in relation to the amount we have generated. We are missing goals from the offensive and we will continue working on that. “

Finally, with respect to the whistles that the players received at the end, Gallardo commented: “Some time ago I told them about the mental health of the players: when you arrive at these places you have to have knowledge of the demand. And who speaks to them, has knowledge of that demand.”

And he continued: “How am I not going to think that it cannot affect (the whistles). The players are human beings, how will it not affect? ​​It is in the capacity of each one assimilate it and be able to overcome it. We are all exposed, we must move forward convinced of what is done. Same in the difficulty and when there is the feeling that the paths are correct, a sensation that can lead to the confusion. We have to be convinced. It can enter or not, but that is why we will stop trying.