Millionaires said goodbye to the Copa Libertadores, prematurely, by falling in the key of phase 2 against Fluminense from Brazil. This is how the club’s challenge in the international tournament ends very quickly and he has to think about the local league, in which he is the leader.
Here, the reasons that explain this sports misstep of Millionaires.
1. Lack of hierarchy
Millonarios knows it well, he lost the series against Fluminense in Bogotá, and he lost it in Bogotá because everything went wrong in that match: losing a man by expulsion when the series had just started, wasting a penalty that could have changed history, losing in local quality against a Brazilian rival that did not look as superior as thought… Millonarios lacked weight, hierarchy to face this series. And it is normal in a squad with so many young players and those who lacked experience in this type of confrontation. He crashed with an adversary who did have it and who, without being superior, did the job.
2. No investment
Since January, it was known that this series was going to be uphill and that qualifying for phase 3 of the Cup would be a feat. It was known not only because of the rival that he had to face, but because Millonarios did not arm himself to aspire to more. From the moment the draw was made, the club began to lose the key. The fans waited for better reinforcements while they lamented the departure of Fernando Uribe, of Emerson Rodríguez… In return, for example, Herazo arrived, who for now does not show that he can be the goal man that the team needs. Millos’s biggest investment was for goalkeeper Álvaro Montero, a success, but insufficient. The policy is to promote the quarry, those players who have stood out in the local environment but who did not have the ‘clothes’ to eliminate Fluminense. Fluminense’s payroll is worth, according to Transfermarkt, 60 million euros. The Millos, 19.
3. A style without a goal
Millionaires are paid for the game proposal, the courage. No one denies that he went to fight hand in hand in Brazil in search of qualification, but in the Cup you don’t win with good intentions. Millionaires did not take advantage of their opportunities, they failed in definition. In addition, his possession game, which Alberto Gamero talks about so much, is showy, but lacks final stitch, depth and goal. The style can bear fruit in the local league, in which he is the leader, but in the local league it has also happened against certain rivals. There are still nuts to tighten.
4. The mindset
At the end of the second leg in Brazil, DT Gamero highlighted the positive side of the team, as is hardly normal, and the fight and courage. But the DT also left a phrase that worries him, “losing is not always bad,” he said. There is a certain conformism in the Millos environment for what the team tried in this difficult key, but with those conformisms international titles are not won. The feeling remains that this challenge was an apprenticeship for many players, an international experience, and even then, as if the project were limited to those aspects.
5. Much with little
Millonarios has a great coach, but he has a limited team. That is obvious. He has a team to fight for in the local league, he is the current leader for a reason. It will be necessary to see if in decisive instances they manage to fight for the title against the clubs that have made an investment such as Tolima, Junior or Nacional, which have payrolls with more weight, with more turnover for the coaches. In Millos the team is short, limited, if a nut does not work it is difficult to replace it. There is no bank with potential. He needs Gamero’s magic to continue appearing in the League, his great goal from now on.
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