2024-02-27 19:58:52
This is just starting. Three words that summarize the thoughts of the San Martín team after the hard blow of falling in a foreign rodeo against San Miguel, after a very weak performance in the first stage and innocuous in the second.
“The coach told us that he trusts us, that we have to lift our heads and continue. “That we have very good players, that we don’t have to stay and that this is just starting, and we have to push forward,” the goalkeeper revealed. Dario Sand what were the first words of Diego Flores before leaving the locker room at the Malvinas Argentinas stadium.
With the additional precedent of the defeat at home against Ferro, the “saint” resembles a cyclist who needs to get up quickly so that his recent episodes of loss of balance in the middle of the pack leave the least possible consequences in the future.
The next “stage” of the long-awaited “return to Primera” represents a great challenge for San Martín, who against Quilmes in La Ciudadela, on Monday, will have to regain reliability in the face of the long career that still lies ahead.
Before retracing the path back to Tucumán, the players did not ignore the mistakes that cost them three points against a practical and willing rival, and also with rather modest resources.
“It was very difficult for us in the first half, we couldn’t find the game, nor the pressure, nor the way to feel comfortable,” he acknowledged. Gonzalo Bettini.
“Yes, we played the first stage quite badly and forced the coach to make changes,” he noted. Junior Arias in relation to the two modifications introduced by Flores before halftime.
“It’s clear, we didn’t go in to play the game we came to play,” he added his voice to that of his teammates. Ivan Zafarana.
Despite the voracity of the mosquitoes that attacked every living being in the Buenos Aires region and the frustration of a fall that was not in their “career” plans, the players stood up and accepted their mistakes. But they also pointed out that the obstacles that appear along the route can and should leave lessons.
“We have to adjust faster and not enter into the doubt that the other team generates in you, and learn to strengthen ourselves from the positive aspects that we have, because we are a tough, intense team, that tries… We are in that search. In the second half we adjusted some things and almost reached a tie,” Bettini said.
“Every game is another story. It’s not that we found it before and now we don’t have it. “Every game is very different,” said the right-back, before completing: “Our goal is to get promoted, that’s why we reproach ourselves for the type of first half we had. We are self-critical, but we cannot dramatize everything because there are only four dates and there are plenty left. “Neither one thing nor the other.”
For his part, Arias pointed out: “What can we rescue? Good things are always done. In the second half we had the rival almost all the time against their goal, playing badly and we forced their coach to put many defenders, with us going to look for him as San Martín commands.”
The Uruguayan striker, who had practically no chances on Monday, insisted on seeing the “glass half full.”
“They are games, they are streaks, there are two games lost due to two mistakes that cost us dearly. It is important that we all realize that we have to correct these errors.”
“It is not good that they happen, but it is better that mistakes happen now than later. We have time to correct them, it is a very long tournament,” Arias added.
“We have to become strong and on Monday return to victory with our people,” Arias wished, while Bettini, also with Quilmes in his sights, clarified San Martín’s immediate objective: “Win and reposition ourselves again.”
It is known that falling is part of the “game” in cycling. The question is to properly heal any scratches and get back on the road quickly. And as a sign in a rubber shop near the San Miguel stadium said: “If I make a mistake again, let it at least be a new mistake.”