The front Luis Díaz admitted this Monday that he sought with intensity to score a goal for the Colombian team in his debut in the Copa América, but he clarified that the most important thing was to defeat Paraguay and know that “we can improve.”
“Unfortunately I couldn’t score a goal, which was what I wanted today, but I’m calm because I know that we are going to have a very good Copa América and we continue dreaming of the title,” declared the Liverpool player after the match that put into action the Group D of the Copa América, completed by Brazil and Costa Rica.
However, Díaz admitted that Julio Enciso’s goal that reduced the Cafeteros’ lead to 2-1 “brought Paraguay back into the game.”
He praised his team’s ability to resist the pressure from the Paraguayans and to manage the result, but insisted that the squad has a lot of room to improve what was shown this Monday in Houston.
