This Tuesday, Atlético-MG, which had 100% success in the Libertadores (four wins), suffered its first defeat in the group stage of the Libertadores. In Uruguay, the team was beaten 2-0 by Peñarol.
After the match, striker Hulk highlighted that defeat is a learning experience.
“Learning. We have to be intelligent and learn from our mistakes. It is by making mistakes that we learn, improving, trying to correct some mistakes we made today, and awareness. When we were winning, everyone was congratulated, when we lose, everyone takes responsibility, no It’s one player or another, but everyone, and the most important thing is that everyone is focused and from tomorrow onwards, start working, focus on improving”, said Hulk.
Goalkeeper Éverson also spoke after the match, describing the feeling after the bad result.
“It’s a bad defeat, we came with the intention of winning, but two similar moves, two dead balls and they ended up taking advantage of two rebounds, and that’s where we had some inattention there and ended up losing the game. We didn’t want to, we knew it was from A victory here is extremely important, even though we are already classified, we know that it would guarantee the best campaign in the first round in this round. So it is a bad, bitter defeat, where we have to improve in terms of rebounding, so that we don’t suffer the two goals we conceded. tonight.”
Finally, Atlético-MG returns to the competition on the 28th (Wednesday) of this month, when they host Caracas-VEN. The ball rolls at 7pm (Brasília time), at Arena MRV, for the last round of the group stage.
Source: Gazetaesportiva
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