Fernando Ortiz did not bear full responsibility for the elimination of Monterrey of the Concacaf Champions Cup, but shared it and admitted that it will be difficult to avoid in the emotional aspect.
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“We are all responsible, mainly me when there is a defeat, when the team loses, that is something that I always try to analyze quickly, but if there is someone to blame for the defeat, it is me. Emotionally it hits, we must admit. Emotionally, it is something that is difficult to avoid. I just told the players, let it hurt what has to hurt.
Not only did we open the score quickly, we even had opportunities to continue increasing the score. That’s something we had planned. Then, by scoring the goal that no one expected, perhaps, at the moment when they emotionally hit me again, obviously after coming back as we had done on other occasions, against an opponent that plays, it was quite difficult. But the team never tried to go after the score,” he mentioned post-match.
Likewise, he sent congratulations to the “Crew” along with Pachuca, clubs that in the end will fight for the international title despite all odds: “Faced with a defeat in a semifinal, first I want congratulate Columbus to go to a final. A worthy rival to face, they were better than us, we have to accept it, about Pachuca, congratulate them. They have made it to the final and I think it is meritorious,” he said.
Fernando Ortiz concluded by recognizing the importance that the key to the Quarterfinals in Liga MX will take, which will be against Tigres, which will start in one more week.
“From tomorrow, I just told them in the locker room, it’s something that has to hurt, it hurts, it’s a defeat. We have to accept it, but from tomorrow when we return to training, think about the quarterfinals against Tigres, which is something quick.” , immediate, where we have to be emotionally at one hundred,” he concluded.
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