🎥 Bielsa, flop and fury with the press 🤬! Then: I gave everything
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Marcelo Bielsa has failed. His Uruguay crashes out sensationally in the group stage, undone by the defeat to Spain and by failing to win either of their first two matches against Saudi Arabia and Cape Verde.
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The Argentine coach is chiefly to blame for La Celeste’s flop. They may no longer be the national team they once were — when they could field Suarez, Cavani and Forlan all at the same time — but they are not a side that should be capable of disappointing in such an obvious way either.
Last night, once it had become clear that things were beyond saving for Uruguay, tensions boiled over, as shown by the red card the referee gave to Canobbio, whom he had been “targeting” since the first minute.
Things were far from calm on the bench as well. After the final whistle, Bielsa appeared before the microphones visibly tense, abruptly cutting off questions and quickly brushing aside requests for clarification, including one about Muslera’s substitution.
At the press conference, however, Bielsa then delivered his harshest self-criticism. The Argentine coach acknowledged that the team had failed to turn the chances they created into goals and stressed that many of the goals they conceded could have been avoided. For that reason, he said he felt solely responsible for the disappointment and accepted the criticism from fans and the media.
The coach finally gave an extremely negative assessment of his time in charge of La Celeste, saying that neither fourth place in the qualifiers, nor third place in the Copa América, nor the World Cup campaign had left any meaningful legacy for Uruguayan football, describing his spell as an experience that “left nothing.”
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