Gerardo Martino, fired up, was lapidary after the defeat suffered by Inter Miami: “We didn’t even want to compete”

Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martinotechnical director of InterMiamihe showed his anger on Saturday for the defeat suffered on the field of the New York Red Bulls (4-0) and recognized that his team’s lack of competitiveness makes him wonder how far the squad can go this season.

“We played a disappointing match, you can simply analyze it from there. There isn’t much to say other than that we were outplayed from start to finish. We played a match that was unexpected for us, disappointing, and this obviously makes us reflect on how far do we have ambitions to go, especially if we are able to have so many variables between one weekend and the next,” he told a press conference.

“The only impact on the result is that Red Bull wanted to win and we didn’t want to compete”he assured.

Without Lionel Messi due to injury but with Luis Suárez, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba, Inter Miami was shipwrecked this Saturday in a match marked by heavy rain crashed in Harrison (New Jersey, USA).

Lewis Morgan, former Inter Miami player, with a stunning hat-trick and Venezuelan Wiki Carmona scored in a memorable afternoon for the Red Bulls. The other great protagonist of this defeat was Dante Vanzeir, superb with four assists for his team’s four goals.

Messi’s absence, due to muscular overload, was once again a very heavy burden for the squad, which has suffered two defeats this season and both occurred without the genius of Rosario on the pitch.

“The reality is that it’s not a question of coming here to throw roses because of what we saw from our team and obviously the responsibility lies with everyone and mainly mine as coach. But there was nothing in the previous record, not even in the defeat that was quite far from Montreal at home (2-3), which makes us think that we would have had a production like today,” Martino argued.

“When a team enters a match and doesn’t want to win, has no spirit, doesn’t compete, surely on the other side just by wanting to win the match they will win it,” he defended.

Martino did not want Messi’s absence to be an excuse to justify the poor performance of his team, which had “problems in all aspects of the game”.

“The absence of the best player in the world is important for everyone. But last week Leo didn’t even play for DC,” he said of the 1-3 win in Washington against DC United.

Regarding the injury of the Albiceleste number 10, Martino said he was optimistic about his recovery.

“We see Leo day by day, as I said last week he is already taking to the field to work, obviously with the recovery group and we are taking him week by week. It will certainly be like this” an important week to see his evolution (. . ..) If nothing strange happens, we will see him return to regular work in a short time,” he said.

Source: EFE