Javier Burrai, acknowledges that he noticed Gabriel Chocobar nervous and insecure, who missed a key penalty for the bullfighter’s victory

The goalkeeper Javier Burrai became the key player of Barcelona SC to reach its passage to the second phase of the Libertadores Cupafter raffling with solvency two goal options that the Montevideo City Torque and in the penalty that covered the player Gabriel Chocobarwhich defined the series.

“I saw him when he was walking towards the goal and when he started running, I didn’t notice it very sureI hesitated between staying stopped, if I kicked in the middle, or crossed. I opted for the crusader and (Gabriel Chocobar) did not kick very cornered at my height. In this round, generally, you try to intuit, but many times you also play it safe, the more penalties passed, I thought that the kickers could get to ensure, “said the goalkeeper who is celebrating his third season with the yellow team.

About the game, Burrai added: “The match was not similar to the final of the 2020 national tournament. It is a totally different context, another competition, this was the first step of the year, with our people, a spectacular setting of people, it was beautiful to play again with fans. We have an obligation to win we played a great gameIt seems to me that we had many situations (goals) to win, there are always things to correct, especially at the beginning of each year it is normal, the important thing was to win, to take this first step. It will be played by the LigaPro on Saturday and we want to start wellalso think about the next phase of the Cup with Universitario, from Peru”.

For the Uruguayan goalkeeper, the key in the penalty shootout is to be calm. “The two teams kicked the 16 penalties in total very well, an atypical figure that does not usually happen, there was serenity on the part of the kickers who have more to lose than the goalkeepers. It gave me that feeling that I couldn’t save a shot but I knew it was comingwhich was going to arrive, luckily it took a little while, but it arrived and I was able to help pass the phase”.

When asked about how he assumes the classification seeing that the rival gave them a fight until the last moment, Burrai indicated: “It’s my third season playing this type of competition (Copa Libertadores) and no team is easy, for a reason they play these instances and like every Uruguayan team, Montevideo City was brave, different from what a team from that league (Uruguayan) usually proposes, they tried to play all the time, I think that we were superior in both gamesIn general, especially today. We have a lot of goal situations, more than them, no phase, no team is going to be easy, now it’s time to play at home and close as a visitor, it’s going to be tough”.

“We had practiced penalties, like we always have every time we’ve played qualifying rounds or matches that could be defined like that, as we’ve always done, the boys kicked very well and had the serenity to do it well; I knew that someone was going to have to save me, having done it at home, with our people, was doing it in a good way”, said the former Ecuadorian Macará goalkeeper.

The Argentine goalkeeper acknowledged that Uruguayan players were studied on how they kicked penalties, but some left the field. “The coaching staff I scored some kickers after the end of the 90 minutes and we had no record of others, they changed the squad a lot and just those who left we had studied them, the other was a bit of intuition; when so many penalties are kicked, some escape from the machete (previous study) on a player”. (D)