Scaloni after the victory against Australia: “We deserved but physically we were right”

“I don’t want to talk about VAR anymore because I feel like I’m sitting in a press conference to talk about VAR: not at all. That’s it, topic over. “There are 42 images to analyze,” the fourth official told me. The answer is already there. It’s over,” he explained. Lionel Scaloni after the strenuous 2-1 win over Australia and the question of whether there was a penalty in the first half, a hand in the penalty area Keanu Bacchusthat the referee Szymon Marciniak he did not see, nor was he warned by earpiece.

This time the Argentinian coach didn’t load the ink on other people’s factors and concentrated on his own: the level of the captain Lionel Messithe probability of return of angel of marythe score disparity of Giuliano Alvarez Y Lautaro Martinez and the idea that the team has captured and how they have translated it on the pitch.

The denunciation or the controversy was avoided, but it introduced the analysis of the match, resuming the questioning of the programs and the little recovery time he had between the match against Poland, the last of the group stage, and the match against Australia for the group of 16 . The team has played four games in 11 days and will play the next quarter-final in six.

“It showed in the last few minutes: physically we were discreet – discreet. Beyond the fact that we deserved it, the game lasted less than 72 hours (from the previous one) and was played at 10 in the evening. Now let’s go to sleep late, well… Now he will be another difficult rival, like all of them,” summed up the coach.

“Today’s match was very, very, difficult. (Australia made a) very suffocating pressure and physically they were more whole than us. It cost us the first time, But Leo opened the can and then we got better. We corrected a few things at the interval,” he explained about the first leg.

For the second part also had a practical analysis. “The team didn’t deserve to suffer those final minutes. We had to widen the difference and in general we played a typical World Cup game, with all the connotations that this has,” he underlined.

“We’ve had situations that shouldn’t have ended this way. If (the result) had been 2-0, it wasn’t bad. Football has these things and you end up paying for them”, he analyzed before explaining, why his managers were able to overcome the difficulties indicated: the “stifling pressure” of the rival and his own physical exhaustion.

“I don’t know whether to call it emotion, but in the end they understand what football is. There are times when you have to go to war, defend yourself. The team understands every aspect. You can also lose, like we lost against Saudi Arabia. The most important thing is that the group understands this: I summarize all this when the game ends and we celebrate with the people. It’s exciting, it feels like we’re playing in Argentina,” he began to explain.

“This is a unique morale booster and I wish everyone could feel what the player feels when he sees all those people and knows there is a whole country behind them. It makes you want to go out and party, in fact I did and looked up my family. This sums up the four games in 11 days and being able to give that extra something you have, because it’s difficult to play so many games at that level in such a short time. When you see people, you get it,” he noted.

United States, not Japan…

The next step for the team will be next Friday at 16:00 against the Netherlands, a top-level team led by the expert louis vangaal, which he praised. “It is a pride to face Louis. I was a Deportivo player (La Coruña) and I faced him when he was managing Barcelona and he was already an eminence. Everyone knows what he has done for football and many have tried to copy him. These are the pleasures of football,” he distinguished, before muddying a selection.

“Today we watched the game they played against Japan for a while,” he said and completed his analysis until the error was cleared. “United States, sorry… what a mistake!” she stated with a smile. Scaloni considered that against the Americans, then, Holland “showed how it knows how to do things”.

“They have very clear things and very strong points. We will try to exploit our virtues. Two historic teams are playing and one will stay out, we hope to pass ”, he was confident.