Argentina
's win
against
Chile
was a dagger that stabbed deep into
Marcelo Bielsa
's soul .
And the 3-0 victory that Uruguay had achieved earlier against Peru was of no use: the Celeste, with 3 points, was eliminated by the classifications of
Argentina
and Paraguay.
And Bielsa was in the eye of the storm, again...
It didn't take long for criticism
to arrive
in the neighboring country because there were many expectations with the National Team.
Even Bielsa was the one who
set the bar high
by making being able to direct the Pre-Olympic as a condition for signing with the
Uruguayan Football Association (AUF)
.
The Fool's desires had substance: this year
marks 100 years since the first great consecration of the Celeste
, a Gold medal at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games;
and Uruguay has a great class, with many of the youth players who were champions in the Under 20 that was played last year in our country.
It can't be for the Fool.
It is true that Uruguay did not join.
In the first match they lost 4-3 to Paraguay after winning 3-1.
And in the second, a painful 1-0 fall against the very weak Chile.
Tuesday's 3-0 with goals from Luciano Rodríguez, Santiago Homenchenko and Renzo Sánchez Veiga were of no use.
Now, Uruguay will close its tournament next Friday against Argentina.
🔙 𝑈𝑛𝑎 𝑣𝑢𝑒𝑙𝑡𝑎 𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑎𝑑𝑜
100 years after the first star, we are going through the classification, again to Paris, with a t-shirt in tribute.
#LaDelPreolímpic pic.twitter.com/cH6TC3i7mL
— Uruguayan National Team (@Uruguay) January 17, 2024
But it is also true that Uruguay did things wrong.
The first, defend
.
Due to horrors on the last line, they fell to Paraguay in a game they had won.
He was also not firm against Chile, although the team played poorly as a whole there.
Bielsa was fighting during the tournament.
In the first game he was reprimanded for vehemently protesting a foul in the middle of the field when Uruguay won easily and played well against Paraguay.
This Tuesday, meanwhile, he could not be on the substitutes' bench because
he received a second yellow card
in the duel against Chile.
For that reason he also did not speak in the conference after the win against Peru.
Something else: at the press conference after the fall with the Peruvians he had an encounter with a Uruguayan journalist.
"If we don't qualify,
I would define it as a disappointment
because we came to look for one of the two places for the Olympics," said Pablo Quiroga, Bielsa's assistant.
But the question begins to appear.
Is it a
disappointment
or a
failure
?
Social networks and the Uruguayan media will give their verdict regarding the eternal debate.