By: Arturo Vásquez Rojas.
O’Higigns from Rancagua faces Curicó Unido tomorrow, at the El Teniente stadium, a match valid for the seventh date of the national championship. The duel, which begins at 6:00 p.m., is expected by the sky-blue fans as they hope that the team can show a different image from what it has shown in part of the last two games. That is why Pablo de Muner, celestial Technical Director, spoke with the media at the Monastery, where he specified the points that must be improved to have a positive result against the ‘curicanos’.
“WE ARE CLEAR OF WHAT WE WANT”
For de Muner, the football that O’Higgins has played, especially in the first games, is good. The last matches have not left that image, but for the coach what they should improve has been detected. “We are always focused on things to improve and on what we have been doing well. It is clear what we want, the functioning of the team that we are looking for and that is what we showed in the first dates, I would say until the first half with the University of Chile. We have to go back to that path where the team was working”, says the Argentine.
To understand the differences shown in the championship, the coach says that “you have to understand that in the tournament there are situations that vary. There are players with whom you count more, you are also taking licenses as a team and that is why we have to give our best in every game and collectively, so we will be competitive and we hope to resume this home game together with our people ”.
“WE NEED TO WORK COLLECTIVELY AGAIN”
For the strategist, one of the situations for which the celestial game has deteriorated is due to the collective work that is being carried out on the playing field. That is why he mentions that “the intensity is always within the game plan. The first 10 weeks of competition we showed ourselves in one way and that way he competed and we were satisfied. We urgently need to return to that collective intensity, we cannot face any party from the individual; the players must toast to the institution and work for and for the team. If we recover that collective spirit, the performance will appear and the triumphs will return ”.
“The game plan is going to go through the midfield. Curicó has good players and logically we respect them. But we know that we can take advantage in all sectors of the field, even more so in the last third. That is where we must make a difference”, continues Dt .
One of the answers that Muner has found in the first half loss against the northerners, goes through the defeat against the ‘U’. “I want to think that by losing the game at the last minute against the ‘U’, he made us play badly in the first half against Deportes Copiapó. The differences are important between what we did in the first games and the first half on Monday. The players know what they have to do and I am also clear about it and we will try to return to that path, where the team was excited, ”said the coach at the Monastery.
“WE HAVE TRIED TO GIVE THE TEAM AN IDENTITY”
Pablo de Muner comments that these first months of work at O’Higgins have been very intense and the stages have been completed based on what was planned by his coaching staff. “We are beginning our 12th week of the process. We have tried to give the team an identity and way of playing and where the first thing was to give solidity to our defensive zone. Subsequently, we began to involve him with high pressure and we were always competitive and I feel that in the image of the last games we have regressed, but we must continue building ”, comments the strategist. “We will achieve this with the collective spirit of the squad, although we are also clear that this is a matter of mentality and that is why we have to face each game as if it were the last”, the Technical Director of O’Higgins ends the press conference. from Rancagua.