The aim is to improve game by game and pick up points - Gabriel Milito

The aim is to improve game by game and pick up points - Gabriel Milito

Guadalajara came away with a point against Pachuca, but for Gabriel Milito the result also made some things clear that Chivas will need to work on going forward.

At the post-match press conference tonight, the red-and-white coach was self-critical about his team’s performance, acknowledged that the first half was better than the second, and pointed out that they lacked greater control of the ball in order to manage the game. The Argentine manager also stressed that the team needs to find more consistency and make better use of the favorable moments that come up during matches.

Gabriel Milito’s best quotes

I feel the first half was better than the second. We had chances to make it 2-0. We struggled to have much more control of the ball. I feel we have to be more consistent and I think we can do better. We have to do better. More than the points, which of course are important, the feeling from today’s draw and the feeling from the draw against Puebla are different. In the match against Puebla we deserved to win, and today, when everything was going in our favor, we needed to have that calmness to do better, as we eventually do. The opponent, with its substitutions, brought a lot of energy. We also have to give credit to the opposing team, which at times neutralized our circulation. The spaces were there and we should have had better ball movement so we wouldn’t lose possession so often and could create attacks.In the second half we did it better. If we had had that full sharpness, we would have had control of the game, and that wasn’t the case; we ended up losing a lot of balls.We go game by game. For us it’s very important to win and take all three points. We weren’t able to do that, and we’ll approach the next match with the same commitment as always: to win and take the three points. I understand that there are opponents who offer resistance, and we’re not going to win just because we are Chivas, but because of how capable we are of doing it.

On Luis Romo

Romo seems like a fundamental player on this team to me, not only for defending in large spaces, but also for building out clearly. We decided to use Romo, who in addition to being good in buildup from the back, is capable of pushing forward and creating attacks. He did it phenomenally against Seattle, and I’m satisfied with Luis’s performance in that position.

On Kevin Castañeda and Jordan Carrillo

Time is still needed for adaptation, for getting to know things, for understanding the training sessions, and that’s mainly what I see. The quality is there, but sometimes the timing of when a player arrives takes time. That’s why we often choose to start players who have been with us longer, while they are in a period of adaptation and understanding what we are looking for from them.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.