“I want to apologize to the San Lorenzo fans and all my teammates. I know that the way I took the penalty was reckless and hurt the team.. I will work twice as hard to reverse the situation. “Let’s go Cyclone!” wrote the 31-year-old attacker in a story on his Instagram account.
In the pending match on date 3 against Godoy Cruz, which had been suspended last May due to incidents between the Tomba crowd and the Police, Ciclón had a penalty on the hour mark to break the 1-1 tie and take a victory of Mendoza. However, Francisco Fydriszewski missed that opportunity: he chopped it, served the ball to goalkeeper Franco Petroli and that’s how the game ended.
His companions did not forgive him. According to reports, goalkeeper Gastón “Chila” Gómez and Colombian defender Jhohan Romaña criticized Fydriszewski in bad terms for his way of executing the penalty and they had to end up separating them so that the situation did not escalate.
‘Why didn’t Muniaín kick?’more than one wondered. The Spanish midfielder, with a long career at Athletic Bilbao, has already converted in this way in the short time he has been in San Lorenzo. And that is precisely what Leandro Romagnoli, Barça’s coach, referred to.
“I’m going really hot. It is a game that does not have much analysis, there were two 22-minute halves. We found ourselves with a penalty at the last minute and… I played for 20 years. There is a designated player. He was and is Iker (Muniaín). They are decisions. There are good and bad decisions. We could have left with the three points, which we needed a lot, but we leave with a point that tastes like little,” Pipi lamented.
Another of those chosen by Romagnoli to kick was Iván Leguizamón, who was also on the court but stayed away from Fydriszewski’s position.
“Sometimes on the field it is decided by the players who kicks and they decided that the ‘Polaco’ should kick. If I knew it was going to get stung, I would go inside the court so it wouldn’t get stung. You don’t know what’s going on in the player’s head.“, completed the DT.
And, subtly, he pointed out to the player: “We have to understand the situation we are in and the club we are in and sometimes that doesn’t happen. “We have to continue highlighting it.”
The thing is that San Lorenzo, with this tie, was eight points from Tigre, which would be descending in the annual table. El Ciclón accumulates 34 units, and is only behind Central Córdoba de Santiago del Estero (30), Independiente Rivadavia (28), Sarmiento de Junín (27) and the aforementioned ‘Matador’ (26).