The setback that Chivas suffered in the first match of the Quarter-Final series, far from generating doubts or questioning within the team, will encourage the team to do what it has done constantly during the tournament: get up and move forward stronger. This was stated by Veljko Paunovic at the press conference after the game and he stated that his team has the capacity to win the match and therefore reach the Semifinals of the Clausura 2023.
Pauno's words:
- The result puts us in a situation where we control, where we play against the rival at home, we have total faith that this is 100 percent removable, I think that today the team has been good, the pity is that we have not been able to get the goal on the scoreboard first.
- In a play at the end of the first half they scored against us and that conditioned the rest of the match, it is in our hands and it is even good for us, we can no longer speculate, we have to win and with that mentality we are going to prepare for the second leg.
- First of all, Alexis received a hard blow in the first half on his left thigh, we considered making a change at halftime, but we wanted to give him the chance to return to the field, but it was seen that he was still affected and with the break the blow cooled down and caused him more pain in the second half.
- As for Pocho, this team has been playing together for a long time and when the misfortune of missing the penalty happened, everyone was on his side, they said we were going to get over it, I liked the reaction because the next time we got the ball back we had a shot inside the box that ended in a shot inside the opponent's box.
- The team can face the adversities of the game, the only thing that affects us is not having scored first because that would have changed the game in our favor and we would have handled the situation differently.
- This is soccer, when the result determines opinions, in the end we tend to make mistakes, we have to maintain a line as we have always done and we have to judge the situations as they have been.
- The opponent has been very aware of our strengths, of the attacks we made on the wings and in the first and second half there were many, but they covered them well, we had many corners and from set pieces we were not effective, but we created.
- We can improve, we are going to improve and as soon as possible, because the match is in 3 days, the group is aware that this is a result that we will have to face.
is aware that this is a result that we can turn around and we will do it.
- We always consider all the possibilities and soccer resources we have in our team, it is also true that we do not condition ourselves and make changes that we are used to, because the pair we have in this system has been playing together for almost the whole championship.
- Today there was a play in the air, for me it was a collective mistake, we were caught a little bit more advanced, the goalkeeper took the supposed foul of Carlos Cisneros, it was in the box, there was a total distraction.
- This can no longer be changed, we are controlling our reaction to what happened, we have to think positively, Pocho accepted it immediately, brushed the dust off his shoulders and focused on the second half.
