Balbuena asserted that recovery is always difficult at altitude, that in the first half they tried to manage the runs well so as not to feel that suffocation.
EFE
Paraguayan defender Fabián Balbuena said on Thursday that the members of the national team made a great effort, but they leave empty-handed, after the 2-0 defeat suffered by Ecuador in the South American qualifiers of the World Cup in Qatar 2022 and before the imminent home match against Colombia.
“They were neglects that cost dearly in this kind of game, we had been making a great effort throughout the game. Now, already thinking about the following matches to try to score points that we need, because today we are leaving empty-handed, “he said at a virtual press conference at the” Rodrigo Paz Delgado “stadium, in the Ecuadorian capital.
The defender indicated that in this kind of game it was vital to win, to score points, “logically that is the most important thing, unfortunately today Ecuador added and we stayed. Now we will try to do things well thinking about the next matches, recover well to try to get very well against Colombia ”.
The Paraguayan team’s soccer proposal was allowing them to take a draw until the 87th minute when Ecuador scored the first goal through defender Félix Torres and at the end the attacker Michael Estrada finished the confrontation.
Balbuena asserted that recovery is always difficult at altitude, that in the first half they tried to manage the runs well so as not to feel that suffocation, but that in the end those effects are always felt, he expressed that in general lines. The team made a great effort to become strong, but finally they go empty with 7 points in seven games played.
“I think that today the strategy did not work out, our mentality was to try to take advantage of the spaces on the sides, because Ecuador leaves them when it goes on the attack, but it did not come out,” he said.
He also said that a lack of attention cost them the first goal, and that at that point in the confrontation it affects more, to see later how the second fell. “This is football in this kind of game, those mistakes cost”, he concluded. (D)