Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni spoke about the hydration breaks at the World Cup.
Lionel Scaloni spoke at a press conference about the Argentina national team and Lionel Messi. In the same press conference, Scaloni also commented on the hydration breaks. Here is what he had to say:
“There’s no easy match. In this World Cup, there are more matches but the group stage has always been tough for everyone.
“The heat conditions, constantly stopping the match, ends up giving a hand to the theoretically somewhat weaker team. It ahs time to recover and prepare things that maybe it didn’t have before. It’s been done to have more time and in the end, the match ends up getting a bit choppy. That thing with four times almost feels like it’s real. It’s been done and here we are to make it work.
“Everything I have in my head can change based on what happens in those 22, 23 minutes. We have people up top analyzing the match and us sitting on the bench. We look for solutions and do what’s done in a normal halftime. Sometimes I get confused saying it’s only for the weaker rival, it also gives the team that wants to attack time to adjust.
“It feels weird adapting to that. I imagine that in time, if it keeps being done, it’ll become something normal like all the things that have been made almost normal. This still isn’t normal for us, it makes things pretty choppy.
“There are times when matches shift from one way to another in the same period just because of this because they’re there to make corrections. I understand it’ll get better. There are people who analyze and show computers or tablets. We go more for the one on one and talking. Everyone has their own little playbook.”
Today’s match is important. If we win, we top the group. Also, it seems that if Brazil and Portugal come 2nd in their respective groups, and either Cabo Verde or Saudia Arabia qualify from their own group as 2nd, and hopefully, if England also get eliminated before semis, then Argentina will largely avoid big names till finals.
Today’s game will be a good test for the team. I hope Thiago Almada and Lisandro Martinez silence their critiques; both players are great and need time to adjust. Vamos Argentina!!!