Playing with an alternative team against Uruguay was (poorly) planned, so losing under that strategy was almost budgeted. But what does worry Jaime Lozano is that his team had no reaction against ‘Celeste’ and let the rival play as they pleased and repeating the same actions.
Mexico fell 4-0 to Uruguay three days before facing Brazil and 15 days before debuting in the Copa América and it greatly influenced the coach’s decision to appear against a power with an alternate team.
“They did practically four or five actions in the same way, which is what worries me the most. That we were not able to better understand the counterattacks that Uruguay made against us. I think we have to learn to identify the opponent’s patterns, know that they are stronger, know their strengths. And it can happen to us once, but it can’t happen to us three or four times,” the coach analyzed.
“As long as we are exposed and dare to play with this type of rival, we are surely going to have a bad result, trying to build something in the medium and long term, trying to project a better team in the future, trying to generate competition,” he justified. the strategist
Of course, the stellar team of Mexico will be deployed against Brazil and Lozano’s job will be to raise the team’s morale and convince them that they can improve despite conceding a rout in 48 minutes.
“We know that with Bolivia it was going to be one team, another against Uruguay and another against Brazil. But that was already thought of, planned. Today’s players were the ones who had a little more time to work, time with us. And now with Brazil, well, we will see the best known ones. We didn’t want to risk playing more with those who had less time,” explained ‘Jimmy’.
For many, this terrible display was all the fault of the coach, who wasted the opportunity to face Uruguay by sending in substitute players, who may never play together again.
