For Scaloni “it’s crazy” how little rest time the national team will have before facing Australia

The victory relaxes the technical director of the Argentine national team. As after the victory against Mexico, the first intervention of Lionel Scaloni in the press conference after beating Poland, was a sarcastic response. “What do I think of the match?”he wondered with a grimace before laughing. “We are satisfied”he said and recovered the solemnity that usually characterizes him, with a sensible analysis of what happened on the playing field and what he warned.

“I mean it It seems crazy to me to play in two days, and a few more hours, when we will be the first of the group. It’s crazy, there are no conditions for it to be like this, but it’s the same for both of them… FIFA decided it.”distinct during the evaluation AustraliaArgentina’s next rival.

In this sense, Scaloni has not minimized the size of the representative of Oceania. “We have seen Australia, more or less. We go match by match, we have an image of the last few matches and tomorrow (Thursday) we will see it one hundred per cent. You must always look at your rival and evaluate him. We can analyze anything, but always thinking about how to hurt him”indicated to put his proposal, on which the rival can think.

“Anyone who thinks Australia will be easy is wrong. When you play in a World Cup and represent your country, you multiply. We were beaten by (Saudi) Arabia and nobody expected that. You can be beaten by a European, an Asian, a South American… football is a game.”he remarked.

“We are not candidates, nor favourites”

After completing all three matches of the C groupScaloni drew some conclusions which he presented in the post-match press conference. “Even playing well, you can lose. It is the feeling that (the debut match against) (Saudi) Arabia left us, because without playing completely well, we had situations, They disallowed a goal that was legal… We had many situations that we could not specify. It still hurts because it’s not a typical way for this team: it was a fateful four minutes.”held.

In this sense, Scaloni did not build a discourse of resilience to draw positive aspects from that debut defeat. “We didn’t think it was profitable to lose, not at all. The only thing he did was know we had to win the two games (which followed). This team plays one way and we wouldn’t have changed because we lost a game.”summary.

The recovery of Argentina, which at the end of the first round was bottom of the group and finished first, does not change Scaloni’s perspective. “We are not candidates, nor favourites, we are always the same”he remarked.

“More our merit than their failures”

In analyzing the victory that allowed him first place in the group, Scaloni highlighted the virtues of his coaches and denied that the result could be explained by defensive errors by Poland.

“We didn’t allow them to play the game Poland wanted or, in practice, to develop counter-attacks. It was more thanks to us than their failures. Let’s entertain people: we’re happy too”he suggested.

“We are satisfied with the match played, it was not easy. The context wasn’t easy: you had to play and win against a team that was worth all the results, just as it was worth losing, given that it had qualified. We interpreted the match correctly”distinct.

“If you don’t ask me, I won’t take it off”

“If you don’t ask me, I won’t take it off”, with that simplicity the director admitted that the captain’s permanence on the pitch depends exclusively on the will of the player. The Flea is untouchable.

Unlike Messi, Scaloni has shown that his wrist doesn’t shake to put players on and off from game to game or during the game. “26 Can’t Play”he said to explain the movements and some absences.

“We’re reading what’s best for each match. When we do something, it’s for the good of the team, we don’t think about the individual, but about the collective. Sometimes it’s good,” he boasted.