A new day of qualifiers, a new complaint against Colombia for refereeing …
Paraguay deserved to beat Colombia, a rival with whom they tied 1-1 in Asuncion, said this Sunday the coach Eduardo Berizzo, for whom his pupils have time to correct the performance in the South American qualifiers of the World Cup of Qatar.
“The team has made a great effort to equate this rival hierarchy, Colombia is a great rival and I think if there was a winner we had to be us because of the situations we got in the second half and we failed,” he said. say the Argentine at the press conference.
Specifically he referred to the last phase of the match, when Paraguay was more offensive. “We had in the last minutes of the game (occasions), at this point maybe you need peace of mind and we didn’t have it, we were eager to win the game and anxious and maybe we didn’t choose the best hit of the ball, unfortunately,” he said. to say.
Berizzo also described as “debatable” the penalty that led to the tie, after Antonio Sanabria put the Guarani ahead on the scoreboard. “When the best match was for us at the beginning of the second half we received a questionable penalty, which matches the match and forces us to go in search again.“, Added.
“The team had a great attitude, a great delivery, they give it their all, the footballers give it their all, that’s what I have left,” he added. Still, Berizzo acknowledged that “the point is frustrating and you don’t like to tie,” though he noted that the tie is at his equator.
“I don’t think anything is definitive, we are on the eighth of 18 dates, all matches are decided by a very short margin, our rivals, like today, are rivals of hierarchy, of a lot of hierarchy,” he said .
“You have to keep running, you have to keep fighting, good results get you up, today a victory put us in the classification zone, then the pessimism is sometimes a bit exaggerated,” he said.
Paraguay, who days before lost to Ecuador (2-0), face Venezuela on Thursday in a match vital to their aspirations and amid criticism of the coach. In this regard, a journalist participating in the press conference urged Berizzo to submit his resignation after the match against Venezuela. “I appreciate him wishing I was out of a job, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone,” Berizzo replied.