Marcelo Bielsa believes he’s in charge for Uruguay’s Copa America exit, claiming Colombia’s Nestor Lorenzo confirmed himself to be the superior coach in Wednesday’s semi-final.
Having eradicated Brazil within the quarter-finals, Uruguay crashed out within the final 4 as Jefferson Lerma’s header clinched a 1-0 win for Los Cafeteros in North Carolina.
Uruguay have been unable to degree regardless of enjoying the second half with a person benefit, after Lerma’s Crystal Palace team-mate Daniel Munoz was despatched off for 2 bookable offences.
Talking at his post-match press convention, Bielsa outlined his perception that Uruguay had extra expertise out there and it was his failings that price them.
“Uruguay was in a transparent situation to win this match in the event you assess the person expertise in every squad,” the previous Leeds United boss stated.
“I handle the workforce that, in my view, had the stronger particular person expertise and we weren’t capable of make the distinction that I assumed we have been going to make.
“I’m personally accountable for not attaining the outcome, regardless of having gamers that have been able to being superior.
“We weren’t capable of seize our additional man benefit, and when a workforce wins with much less particular person expertise, logically, the supervisor that’s teaching the weaker workforce reveals that he’s superior than the coach that had the perfect gamers.”
Uruguay solely managed 11 photographs amounting to 0.76 anticipated targets (xG) to Colombia’s 1.18 regardless of Munoz’s crimson card, leaving Bielsa to lament the scrappy nature of the sport.
“The primary half, even when we didn’t dominate possession, it was very even, and we must always have made the distinction,” he added.
“With one man down within the second half for Colombia, the match was fully interrupted.
“It was always stop-start. We should always have created extra possibilities, however we tried each attainable approach, each attainable path.”
