Gallardo on the canceled goal against Suárez and the elimination with Vélez: “It’s a total injustice, they hurt us”

He didn’t belittle Vélez, but he couldn’t hide his anger either. Marcelo Gallardo spoke about it at a press conference “injustice” after the elimination of River in the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores and considered that improper use of the VARin this case in the cancellation of the objective of Matias Suarez, “football ends up hurting”.

“It is a total injustice, I can only say that we have been damaged by that failure that cannot be seen, there is no clarity”the Doll assured, calmly, but with visible anger at the Chilean’s arbitration Roberto Tobar and the Brazilian Traci, head of the video assistance system.

And he went on with the delay in the review, which this Wednesday was almost six minutes: “There are few criteria in the review, they end up hurting football, today we were the ones who needed time to get to the result, but tomorrow it happens to someone else. A lot of stop damages the spirit of football, I think it is beyond the hands , there must be a spirit of competition and that the game flows. But what I say makes no sense. “.

Then there is the disappointment of having expectations of wanting to go much further in this Copa Libertadores. Injustice aside, I can say that we weren’t in the best footballing state of the team to advance, but in a closed streak these things happen. Obviously we didn’t play well in the first leg, today we went in sight of the result but a mistake deprived us of fighting until the end. Today I think we have been much better, in development and in the operation, even if Vélez has blocked our paths “analyzed the development of the 180 minutes against Loud.

“Today we have to chew our anger and tomorrow we have to get up and continue. I want to accompany the players in this anguish. We have to emerge again.”he reflected.

Gallardo, without being completely exhaustive, also referred to the future of the next few months, which will have as its objectives only the Argentina Cup and the Professional League, where it did not start in the best way.

“Many years have passed, when you have these moments of disappointment, you have to know how to measure and put everything in its place, mainly me, who am the group leader, to see if all is well, more or less, or badly, in particular I have been very critical of a management, I say what I think and feel with respect to reality, today it was not enough for us, we will have to double our efforts to continue to form the best team possible to see if this makes us one of ours with that spirit of competitiveness”concluded.