Tata Martino’s crude confession after the defeat of Mexico-Sweden before Qatar: “There is usury”

The old problems of the Mexican national team have reignited, this time in the last friendly before the World Cup. The lack of strength to end situations he generates prevented him from winning a game that would have allowed him to arrive in Qatar with his good spirit.

Mexico fell this wednesday before Sweden for 2 to 1 and what he will bring to the World Cup together with his suitcases will be more doubtful. Without Javier Hernández in the list of 26 players and with Raúl Jiménez, after 77 days of absence due to injury, Martino raised his last criticisms before the moment of truth, next Tuesday 22 against Poland at one of the Group C junctions it shares with Argentina and Saudi Arabia.

The Tata said he was “excited” by what he sees “from the inside”, but admitted that he cannot be “forgotten” and ignore “what happens from the outside”. In that sense, he didn’t go around: “It is indisputable that there is usury”.

“You can’t sacrifice everyone, a generation of players, it depends on whether you are serene because the project you are carrying out is the right one”, he explained after the defeat.

“There is not a thought that is not focused on the World Cup. The projection of what I feel and think covers up to the last day of competition for the Mexico team in the World Cup,” he said with some excess.

Martino admitted that “people’s opinion” won’t change the goal, which is “to go and make the best World Cup”. In this sense, he thought he saw the players “very involved” and underlined that “from the inside there is a scenario that doesn’t exist from the outside”.

In relation to the defeat against Sweden, he stressed that his team “surpassed their opponent and should have won the match”. In this sense, he felt that “with some modifications in the tactical approach” Sweden is a similar rival to Poland, his former rival at the World Cup. Therefore, he felt that Mexico should do it “defend large spaces better”.