Gago confirms he’s still in Racing: “I understand you’re talking about my continuity, but I’m calm”

The rides continue in free fall. He’s lost five of his last six games, barely saved a point in the classic against Independiente in the round of 16, and are the team with the most goals scored in the Professional League with 23 goals conceded. The last blow was given by Talleres, who beat him in Avellaneda in front of him and the team left Silbado. It was 4-2 and it could have been worse. Despite the good result obtained against Flamengo for the Copa Libertadores, locally the Academy does not give answers and he was 19 points behind River. After this Monday’s defeat at the Cilindro stadium (the third in a row at home), the press office announced a press conference for Fernando Gagobut the DT took over an hour to show up and raised all kinds of speculation.

After eleven in the evening, the coach showed up in the meeting room and acknowledged that he had had a long conversation with his team: “I was meeting gamers until recently“, Gago agreed, although he clarified that what they talked about remains within the walls of the dressing room. This time, one point from the round of 16, the former Boca and Real Madrid player had no choice but to acknowledge Racing’s bad timing: “The results are bad, we have to improve”.

“I understand that there is talk of my continuity, but I’m calm. This is winning and we have to work towards it. I trust the players who will change this present, “said the DT and clarified the doubts about the speculation of his resignation.

Regarding the crash against Talleres, he analysed: “We made a mistake in the defensive phase, we have not done what we thought in the previous one that needed to be done. We have to recover the trust shown with Flamengo. We did it three days ago, until Gabi was sent off,” he said about the good performance Racing showed against the Brazilians for the Copa Libertadores with about 40 minutes with one player down.

Gago referred to the boos received by the team as they left the field: “The people thing is normal, people want to win and so do we. We work to give the kids the tools. We need to relaunch from the collective and from the individual because this generates trust”.

However, Racing have lost five of their last six at local level Gago understands that the team is fine mentally: “It’s not nice that they score after five minutes, but against Flamengo we started losing. Obviously we’re injured, we want to take revenge and put in a good performance on the pitch.”

Towards the end of the conference, Gago spoke about the team: Was he badly armed? “I was convinced of the set-up of the squad. Obviously there is an injury factor that is not foreseen. Yes, a muscle injury, but not serious and someone who has been injured five times tells you that. It happened that injuries “The problems muscles all added up. And also the rush of the boys to want to play. Gabi Rojas came back after 13 days and she wanted to play today and she wasn’t going to risk it. There are biology issues that we have to respect.”