Ronaldinho runs out of fingers counting the Santos goals
Queretaro Reactions
A mixture of feelings surrounded Club Queretaro players after the demolishing 5-0 defeat at the hands of Santos Laguna in the Liga MX leg 1 final.
The star names were clearly furious and didn’t hesitate on rushing into the team’s bus without speaking a single word.
Sinha, who played for Mexico in Germany 2006 and who’s known for having a calm sort of mellow attitude when doing interviews, avoided all contact with the media and it wasn’t hard to distinguish his anger reflected in his face.
Ronaldinho did get on the bus with his teammates unlike previous recent occasions in which he left on private cars. But escorted by his personal guards, the Brazilian ignored all press requests for his opinion.
Santos goalkeeper Agustin Marchesin made a great save when the match was only 2-0 in favor of the home side and which could have changed the faith of the game, such opportunity came from a header from Yasser Corona who was one of the first and few willing to talk.
“Next game [try to]make it more decorous, more dignifying and try to get closer in the scoreboard, the last thing we can lose is our hope,” said Yasser on regards to the upcoming second leg next Sunday.
When Corona was questioned about what had happened to Queretaro he intended to rationalize everything as just being one of those days were you get up on the wrong side of the bed and nothing seems to work your way.
“I really can’t explain. Everything went well for them, and nothing went our way,” explained Corona.
“There’s still 90 minutes left. During the Copa MX we were able to score five goals on them in our home ground”, said Corona in an attempt to convince himself that the miracle is reachable. “They scored five on us, why can’t we score five on them (next Sunday)?”
Emanuel Villa (c) was one of the few willing to talk after the match
Photos: Alfredo Lopez/JAM MEDIA)
Gallos Blancos’ striker Emmanuel Villa also made himself available for interviews and seemed to be more sad than angry and was reflective when answering.
“Santos was able to impose its game, and made its home field be an advantage. They were really favored by the early goals scored and they were an assertive team. They played what they normally play,” said Tito Villa.
“The team [Queretaro] didn’t show anything of what it had been performing, we couldn’t impose the conditions that we normally do.”
And just like Corona, Villa is also hanging on to the slim chance of making a historic coming back on the second leg.
“We are going to try, it’s a final, it’s going to be hard but we are going to try, I don’t see it impossible,” concluded Villa.
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