Lavanini after the sensational defeat against the All Blacks: “We lacked the character in defense”

Perhaps due to the strength of the defeat and the expectation that was generated after the sensational victory last week, the second line of The Pumas Tomas Lavanini He didn’t hide his feelings. She expressed them warmly, before returning to the locker room and with a ferocious self-criticism.

“It’s difficult after the game we played, for that to happen to us. We lacked the character in defense. Maybe we improved the scrum and the maul, but we wanted to show the character we had last week and we could not. So we finished: they gave us 53 points “, he complained Tongue.

“The truth is that the defense it was not what we wanted to be. This is a process, we are on the right track. We were good at some moments, but at key moments we didn’t know how to do it, “she admitted.

“They didn’t do anything Oh!. They grabbed it, they went forward, they gained meters, they pressed … the game simple but well done. It all went through defense, they got us ahead, ”he was honest on the ESPN screen.

“We now have two spectacular matches against South Africa. Now we have to improve,” said Lavanini, who was booked during the match and forced to stay off the pitch for 10 minutes.

word of the captain

For team captain Julián Montoya, the key was the domination of the center by the All Blacks and downplayed the rain –“The climate issue concerned both of us”, he said-, decisive in the dynamics of the match. In any case, he tried to play down the blow that meant the defeat.

“Last week we were not the best in the world and now we are not the worst. We have to learn from the mistakes we made and draw conclusions for the last two games,” he proposed.

“We improved a lot on the line compared to the other game, but we were bad on the ruck and that made a difference. If you say something and then you don’t, that It’s useless“He said out of self-criticism.

“Clearly we could not stand up to what happened in the other game. The challenge is to be good many times, not once and again more or less. We have to work hard for what is to come,” concluded the captain.