By Edgardo Avelar
Jun 27, 2024, 02:00 AM EDT
Moments after another of the mistakes in the collection of penalties from a Mexican shooter like now Orbelín Pineda who missed the shot What could have been the tie with Venezuela in the second game of Group B of the Copa América 2024 and that ended as the first defeat of the competition, His Mexico teammate Luis Romo assured that: “Pineda has the support of everyone on the team.”
Romo even said that before the maximum penalty was taken he took the ball to clean it off Orbelín Pineda and calm him down, “that they didn’t start telling him about things. I never wanted to take the penalty, but rather support him, try to calm him down, I think it’s part of the game. He had already had five or six without failing here in the National Team, today he had to fail and he has the support of the entire team.”
He also said that after Venezuela’s goal: “We should have played like we had done before, we created a lot, but we were not forceful, But that’s what a competition like this teaches you, where you have to give your best and never neglect yourself.
Romo explained that despite the defeat against Venezuela, they continue to think about defeating Ecuador and changing the situation: “You just have to beat Ecuador this weekend to aspire to qualify and you have to risk everything. We have to win the next game, which is a direct elimination and nothing more.”
The midfielder of the Rayados and the national team could not ignore that the outlook in Group B is very complicated, with Venezuela with six points, Ecuador with three like themselves and Jamaica without points.
“The numbers are very complicated, but not impossible, I think we can make it to the next phase,” he concluded.
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