Millonarios leaves the Copa Libertadores: the reasons for its failure in the international tournament

The Millonarios thing in the Copa Libertadores was disastrous. In the absence of a match he was collapsed, without options, eliminated. A very hard blow for the club, which managed to get excited about the miracle but the 1-1 draw at home against Palestino condemned its failure.
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Millonarios has played five games and has not been able to win a single one. He barely has 3 points and has one game left against Flamengo. The Brazilian team faces Bolívar this Wednesday and if they win they will also leave the ambassadors out of the Copa Sudamericana. These are the reasons for the elimination.

1. Team without hierarchy

Millonarios proved to be a team without clothes for the international tournament. He was inferior to all his rivals. He didn’t have forcefulness, he didn’t have the ability to handle a positive result, he couldn’t keep his goal clean. It was a flat, fragile team, with little offensive capacity and full of defensive errors. Millonarios couldn’t even win at home, he didn’t make her respect her, the height factor wasn’t even an ally. They did not play as a big team and their rivals, all of them, outgrew them.

2. The payroll did not give

The Millonarios roster is one of the strongest at the local level, at the international level it gives the impression that it does not have the capacity to face a tournament like the Copa Libertadores, however, the curious thing is that teams like Palestino, with less squad, got 4 points. What is clear is that Millonarios was not armed or assembled to fight this battle. The team appealed to its memory and its base, but it did not strengthen itself enough to think about putting up a real fight in group E. That and alternating competition with the League weakened it. In the end, the conclusion is that Millonarios did not have a payroll for the two tournaments.

3. Low level

It draws attention to the low level that some of the team’s key players have been showing. Players who were always a guarantee, failed or did not perform as expected. Mackalister Silva, the brain, was not at his usual level. The center backs failed in specific plays that meant goals. The players who returned from abroad like Ruiz and Rivaldo were far from what they were, they didn’t matter, they didn’t make a difference. Very low level for such a demanding tournament.

4. Injuries

To make matters worse, the team was rocked by injuries. This is no excuse, but it is true that the payroll was impacted by the number of casualties. For example, in the match against Palestino Gamero did not have his two starting forwards, Castro and Giordana. Furthermore, the team greatly missed Daniel Catano, who was left out of the DT’s plans. From injury to injury, the team lost continuity and Gamero had to maneuver a lot to cover gaps.

5. Gamero’s role

Alberto Gamero He already gave Millonarios a star and his project has borne fruit, especially in the promotion of new players from the quarry. However, as a staff leader, as the person responsible for the project, Gamero bears all the responsibility for this failure. Beyond the losses and the difficulties in planning each match, things did not go well for Gamero in the Cup. In the match against Palestino he chose to defend himself at the end, betraying his philosophy, and in injury time they scored a goal by air. It was a bad Cup for the coach. Gamero accepted the plan and the payroll that the managers gave him. That team that he chose and accepted is the one that is being eliminated.
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PABLO ROMERO
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