For Martino, ‘nothing personal’, a key third game against the USA.

LOS ANGELES – Just a coach from the Mexican team has lost two official matches and in two finals (Nations League and Gold Cup) against USA: Gerardo Martino. Enrique Meza He fell twice in his process, but one of those games was friendly, the other in the icy hell of Columbus. The rest were marked, almost condemned, after setbacks against USA.

However, this third appointment on Friday at TQL Stadium in Cincinnati, within the Octagonal Final of the Concacaf, does not make the challenge personal, for the coach of the Tri. Clarify: it is his job, not his person.

“I don’t take things personally. My role is to lead a team and what I have to watch out for is the well-being of the players and the team, and make good decisions. When you take it personally, you run the risk of not making good decisions, “he said. Martino.

“This is a very important game, with a classic rival. We recognize the importance it has in the tie, but in no way am I going to take it personally. I am still the coach of Mexico, nothing more, “he added Martino in a press videoconference that started an hour late.

Even with that scenario of two lost endings, in a venue conceived so that Mexico play without fans in the stands, plus the casualties of some players, the coach of the Tri rejects the hypothetical gambling den of signing a tie for this Friday night.

“For three years I have been hearing that Mexico has to go out to look for the fifth game in a World Cup as a goal, imagine how this goal is opposed to going out to look for a draw in a tie, regardless of the rival and the result “, answered.

Gerardo Martino drew conclusions in those losses in regional finals against USA. The diagnosis is not new, it is a recurring calamity for the Tri: “The set pieces, that’s how USA it hurt us ”.

Martino delivery in the death certificate of those games before USA the same explanations as previous trainers in previous autopsies. He explains that “we analyzed each of the two games, how we played, and what we would have achieved with a little more effectiveness, with a little more concentration on that in the stopped ball.”

On the other hand, he assured that in the privacy of the Tri has had approaches with the players in which they have noticed a drop in the game in their teams, since the previous concentration, specifically the cases of Jesus ‘Tecatito’ Corona, who has lost the starting position at Porto, and an inconsistent Sebastian Cordova, much to America’s concern, although it discards from that scenario Luis Romoby Cruz Azul.

“Specifically, with Jesús, with Sebastián as well, we have spoken at this concentration. Not so much with Luis, who has been playing regularly with Cruz Azul, then we can see the decline in his game, but, yes, we are always close to footballers, especially those who for one reason or another, do not have a good passage in their equipment”.

Having lived from the rostrum intense demonstrations, indeclinable, in every sense, with the fans of Barcelona, ​​Newell’s Old Boys, or those of the national teams. Argentina and Paraguay, Martino does not consider that it should be classified as sabotage, conscious or unconscious, by the Mexican fans, through #ElGrito, which continues to cost fines and veto matches to the Tri.

“You don’t have to involve all the people. We feel a lot of support from the Mexican supporter. We have felt it forever, wherever we have played. Sometimes they are not the actions that we need, or that harm us and put our home at risk, above all, with the importance it has while we are playing the tie “, he commented.

The Mexican team made this Thursday night the recognition of the TQL Stadium field, whose ticket has been sold out for days, almost all of it was in the hands of FC Cincinnati fans, although some Mexican fans from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana managed to get a few tickets, at stratospheric prices.