Demichelis’ anger after River’s defeat against Huracán: “We need to ask the players if the message reaches them…”

Once again he will find himself in the eye of the storm Martin Demichelis. In every fall, in every stumble River, the magnifying glass is placed on the coach born in Justiniano Posse. Maybe we should start focusing on the players, on the bad performances like this Friday at Ducó. But it’s true that the DT doesn’t give good signals either: against Huracán he failed in his original idea and went out in the final minutes Miguel Borjathe marker.

“We should ask the players if they get our message. I think the statistics reflect many things; We just lost the first match of the tournament. We had opportunities but we didn’t make it and the opponents took advantage of it,” the Córdoba coach explained with a bit of anger when asked a question in the press conference at the Tomás Adolfo Ducó stadium.

What Demichelis had predicted did not materialize and, after a disappointing opening phase, he got involved at half-time. The River improves with the entries of Solari and Fonseca. But on the counterattack, Huracán won. “We started very irregularly, it cost us. In the second half we generated many more. We should have gotten at least a draw,” said the DT. And he continues: “We made a lot of offensive changes because there was space to play. Some guys arrived on time, but the substitutes gave us verticality.”

In the next few hours we will talk about Huracán’s counterattack goal and it will be said that River was in a bad position. And it won’t be exact: there were individual and not collective errors. This is what Demichelis claims: “We missed a free throw in our favor and we had two rebounders positioned. “We lost the second play and also the return run.”.

River will train on Saturday and will begin the journey to Venezuela on Sunday for Tuesday’s debut in the Libertadores. The DT will do an in-depth analysis in a few hours and define the team. Based on the coach’s physical attitude one could conclude that at least a couple of changes are on the way.

“I don’t know of a defeat that comes at a good time. Now we have 6 points left to win and reach the goal of qualifying for the quarterfinals. We are talking about individual performance behind closed doors. We need the team to improve in several things,” summed up the coach.

The summary of Huracán 1 – River 0