The American coach noted that the Colombian players did not have a good attitude in the last half.
MEXICO – Miguel Herrera recognized that the low performance of Colombians Roger Martínez i Andrés Ibargüen it was due to his bad attitude, although he is now an technician of the America reiterate that he spoke to both on numerous occasions.
“They were at the club, I couldn’t put them aside, say, ‘I don’t want these guys anymore’ because in my nursery project they were inside. If maybe one day I thought about not putting them on because there are people which is with more determination, but with all the injuries I had, with all the circumstances I had, because you have to turn to the people you have at the club, ”Herrera said in an interview with ESPN.
“I was very consistent in talking to them, I have a very good chemistry with (Andrés) Ibargüen, Maybe not so much with Roger (Martinez), But there was communication, demanding them of course in the sports part what I demand of the players; they are professional footballers and they have a contract and they must have the requirement to be there when it is resorted to them. Your professional contract does not say ‘player of the’ Club America‘Undisputed headline’, because then you would get into trouble. Your contract says you are a player of the Club America in a contract that obviously requires you to deliver to the fullest at the time you are required to and they are part of two players who did not give what the club expected of them at certain times “.
The two Colombian players were harshly criticized by the azulcrema fans, who realized their bad attitude on the pitch.
“Ibargüen played brilliant matches, Roger had started very well after a series of circumstances of ‘I’m leaving, I’m not leaving’, a series of circumstances that didn’t suit us at all, the ‘you’re leaving, you’re not leaving, there’s the offer, I’m analyzing it, let me see, then you don’t have to use it because if you get injured, we have an important offer. ‘ after all they are part of the institution and I had to make use of them, unfortunately for the institution they did not give the best of the quality that was expected “.
– Did you feel that your low level was due to attitude?
“And so much so, their attitude wasn’t the best. You can have bad games, not do things right. I can’t complain to Henry (Martin) to miss 1 goal down the arc because Henry is killed, Henry goes and fights all the balls, Henry is always ready, generates goals and generates circumstances and if in one of these it was his turn to fail as he fail “.
“I could not go and complain to Guido (Rodríguez) the penalty that failed in the Final (2019 against Rayados), because Guido was the most decisive player on the club court, the player who put the most, the one who looked the most, the one who ran and put the most, if he went having a mistake because I had a mistake, that’s how football is, unfortunately I can’t categorize a player for a mistake. Everyone talks about Jorge Sánchez’s mistake (in the Final against Scratched), but I can’t claim it either because the guy is also killed, he’s a guy with great qualities, I’m sure he’s a player who if he continues at this level we will soon see him in Europe and he had a mistake in a Final, but these are circumstances that cannot qualify a player “.
“But yes when they don’t have attitude of course I say it and in those two (Martínez and Ibargüen), At this stage, there was no good attitude in either of them, at this stage, in this tournament that had very delicate things on the part of this pandemic, then we had to be much more focused and these two players unfortunately they did not have the delivery that was requested of them. I demanded them, the directive was demanded of them, but it does not mean that we were fighting “, concluded the” Poll “.