Gerardo 'Tata' Martino
, technical director of
Inter Miami
, showed this Saturday his anger at the defeat suffered in the field of the New York Red Bulls (4-0) and recognized that the lack of competitive spirit of his team makes him wonder whether where the pink outfit can go this season.
"We played a disappointing game, simply from there you can analyze it. There is not much to say except that we were outplayed from start to finish. We played an unexpected game for us, disappointing, and that obviously makes us think about how far we have ambitions to go, especially all if we are capable of having so many variables between one weekend and another," he said at the press conference.
"The only impact on the result is that Red Bulls had the desire to win and we had no desire to compete
," he said.
Without Lionel Messi due to injury but with Luis Suárez, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba, Inter Miami was shipwrecked this Saturday in a match marked by the
intense rain
that fell in Harrison (New Jersey, USA).
Lewis Morgan
, former Inter Miami player, with a splendid hat trick and Venezuelan Wiki Carmona scored on a memorable afternoon for the Red Bulls.
The other great figure in this beating was Dante Vanzeir, superb with four assists for his team's four goals.
The absence of Messi, due to muscular overload, was once again a very heavy burden for the team in pink, which has suffered two defeats this season and both happened without Rosario's genius on the pitch.
"The reality is that it is not to come here and throw roses for what we have seen from our team and the responsibility of course belongs to everyone and mainly mine as a coach. But there was nothing in the previous record, not even in that defeat that was quite far from Montreal at home (2-3), which makes us think that we were going to have a production like today," Martino argued.
"When a team enters a game and has no desire to win, it has no spirit, it does not compete, undoubtedly on the other side just by wanting to win the game they will win it," he defended.
Martino did not want Messi's absence to be an excuse to justify the poor performance of his team, which had "problems in all facets of the game."
"The absence of the best player in the world is important for everyone. But last week Leo did not play with DC either," he said in relation to the match they won 1-3 in Washington against DC United.
Regarding the injury to the albiceleste number 10, Martino was optimistic about his recovery.
"Leo we see him on a day-to-day basis, as I said last week, he is already going out to the field to do work, obviously with the recovery group and we are taking him week by week. Surely this will be an important week to see his evolution (. ...) If nothing strange happens, we will see him returning to regular work in a short time," he said.
Source: EFE