World Cup Qatar 2022: Ángel Di María admitted that they fell into “the trap” of Saudi Arabia and “Papu” Gómez spoke of a “fatality” for the goals

the defeat of the selection compared to Saudi Arabia by two goals against one caused different levels of self-criticism on the national team. while the captain Lionel Messi He was honest about the malfunctioning of the equipment, saying that there were no excuses to justify that performance, Alejandro “Papu” Gomez spoke of a “good match”, although he referred as a “fatality” the moment the Saudis converted both goals in less than five minutes. While, angel di maria admitted that they fell into “the trap” of the rival.

“It was not given for the little ones offside, but I think that we had a good first half. After the fatality of those five minutes [de los goles] and then we had several chances to reverse the situation and we couldn’t”, said the midfielder in the mixed zone after the fall.

He also referred to the confrontations that are coming: against Mexico on Saturday and against Poland on Wednesday the 30th. “It is clear that you have to win, you have to do a very good job in these two games to move forward in this World Cup. We know it’s difficult, but we have a lot of confidence, all the energy of our public in favor and that’s going to help”, he indicated.

“Nothing in particular”, He responded while they asked him what would have to be corrected for the next crossings. “We played a good game. Except for the two goals, they didn’t kick on goal.” considered “Papu”, who understood those two moments as “mistakes” of the national team.

“We did a lot to score the goals, we had several chances and we couldn’t make it happen. This is football, we were not the best before, nor are we the worst now, we must continue”, Referred the Sevilla player from Spain.

On the field, he said, they did not notice physical differences with the Saudi Arabia squad. “The Asians, the Africans have fast players; many Europeans have physically strong players. We are used to it because we face each other in the European leagues, but inside we didn’t see that difference”Gomez scored.

A few minutes later he spoke Angel Di Maria, who accepted that Argentina had problems with the advanced positions in the first half, despite the fact that they had focused on that issue during training. “We entered their trap of falling into offside, we had practiced it, we had seen it many times; but it’s a shoulder, a little bit of the foot and we couldn’t finish doing the job well. They created two or three situations, they ended up converting it and the game ended up being lost,” he explained.

However, in the same line as Gómez, the Argentine 11 asked to “continue working” and “think positive” going forward. “This is a World Cup, anyone beats anyone and there are two very important finals for us”, he referred to the following matches in Group C.

“It was known that at some point this could happen ended up happening. You have to think positively and know that there are two very important endings left”, marked the player who said he was sad about the defeat but felt in general “very good” emotionally. “Do not lower your arms“, He launched.

The first player to speak after the game and from the field of play was Lautaro Martinez, what was blunt: “He was a difficult rival and in the second half we made a mistake.”

“It is clear that we lost the game due to our mistakes, more than anything in the second half”, added the striker, visibly concerned about the bad step in Argentina’s debut. Martínez had scored two goals in the first half, when the Selection of Lionel Scaloni It seemed that the match was ahead, but the VAR annulled them for offside in both cases.

“In the first half we should have scored more than one goal, but this is the World Cup and now we have to rest and think about what’s to come,” said one of Argentina’s goalscorers in a self-critical but calm tone. “There are two endings now”he added for the next matches that the National Team must play.

On Saturday, at 4:00 p.m. Argentine time, it will be the turn to face Mexico in the stadium where today was the bad debut, and Lionel Messi’s team will close their participation in the group stage on Wednesday the 30th, also at 4:00 p.m. national time , in a match that will be played at stadium 974.

“We have to correct those details for the coming games”continued Martínez, who said that this defeat hurts “a lot”. “We wanted to start winning, it was a bigger illusion that we had”, he admitted.

In the first of the goals scored, the VAR charged offside shoulder of the Argentine striker. Lautaro Martínez had defined with a soft touch over the goalkeeper.

The second annulled to Martínez was also 35 minutes into the first half. The Inter Milan striker stung into space, faked the goalkeeper and pushed the ball into the empty net, but once again the VAR drowned out the Argentine celebration.