Boca reached the semi-finals of the final tournament, and its coach, Claudio Ubeda, expressed his happiness and explained: “We have enough of NAFTA and we are ready to fight.”
Siphon spoke after the match in a press conference, where he said: “It was a difficult match. We knew it would be complicated, but the team shows solidity and courage when things do not go well, and they know how to solve them, and I think they did that very well.” At the same time, he added: “We had opportunities in the first half to score another goal, but that did not happen,” in the initial analysis of the match.
While when asked if the team struggled in the second half, he replied: “I don’t know if we had a bad time. Maybe we lacked control of the match. They put a lot of pressure after the loss and that’s why we skipped the pressure and attacked more directly.”
For his part, he stressed that the team is ready to go further and that it has the “gasoline” to do so. In this sense, he said: “We feel that the group is 100% involved in daily life, we want to win, we are supportive, and we play as a team. You can see when we lose the ball how they position themselves to defend it and recover it. This team intends to continue progressing.”
Regarding the changes he made in Al-Mukamal, he explained: “With the changes, we tried to occupy the width of the field. They rotated the ball from one side to the other and from the end they inserted the ball into the area by shooting crosses.” He also said: “We wanted to be quick to come out quickly in case Kevin (Zenon) comes in and gives oxygen to the team, because both Merentil and Jiménez had a lot of wear, and that’s why the substitute bench is there, to provide solutions.”
Already at the conclusion of the conference, he had not made a decision on choosing the opponent for the next match, but instead announced: “Racing and Tigre are two teams that play differently, but we are ready to play with either of them. We will wait for who it should be and we will work during the week to win this match.”