Atletico Nacional

As I said before, this is impossible for us to win in the same day of "dia del hincha". I think that in the past 7 times that the fans celebrated "dia del hincha"' we only won once. Unbelievable. As for the game, I really don't know what to say. Poor first half, which didn't occur nothing except one chance of Uribe but in the second half we were much better, created few good chances, but Julian Mesa was MOM. I think that in all of our 15 games, at least 10 times the opponent's keeper was MOM. it's so crazy that we've only lost one time, we're invicted for 14 matches in a raw and we still far from qualifying. Only one home win...incredible. Lucky for us that we are the most successful road team, otherwise the semester was over for us. We have serious problem in our offensive part (who would believe that when we signed Uribe) and our bad luck of injuries also doesn't help. Next we've got Junior in Quilla and to be honest, I'm much more optimistic that we will win there, instead of another home game...

 

Well, our only title that is missing in our vitrina is the Copa Postobon and we through tonight to the final vs. Pasto after another 0-1 over Chico, Bernal with a GOLAZO. The game wasn't different from the rest this season. We didn't impress too much, even tohough we could won by much more, but Aviles, Mikolta & Uribe weren't good with the finishing. At least Uribe had a solid game today, even though he didn't score. Finally he was much more involve, had his chances, gave few good passes and fight for the team. We still doesn't look good but all of a sudden our defense didn't recieve a goal in 4 matches....What a strange team. On Saturday Dusty hosts us and I'm actually very relaxing because it appeares that this tournament it better for us to play on the road.

 

I dno't wanna talk about Machado, this idiot is always find his ways to screw us. No one saw anybody enters into the box but this idiot did. Junior won not because of Machado, they won because they scored one goal and we didn't. I don't understand why Uribe didn't start over Alvarez and I didn't understand why Micolta didn't start over Bernal. And where was Medina? Osorio change too many times the lineup and this is how it looks like. Yes we have injuries but Osorio makes too many mistakes. We still can qualify but we look very bad.

 

Rafa, I never said that he is a good coach but I also don't think that he is a bad coach either. we cannot forget also that he took a title with Once Caldas and took them to the Libertadores quarter final. Every coach has failures and success, I just don't understand his inconsistant regarding our lineup and the fact that he never plays with two strikers (Uribe, Alvarez). Also we need to rememeber that the poor finishing by our players ha nothing to do with Osorio. It's not that we don't play well, we do, but who would have thought that Uribe, who was top scorer here before he moved to Italy, will be horrible and with 2 goals only in 16 matches?? Add to that our poor luck with the injuries (Pajoy, Aviles at the beginning, J. Alvarez, Mosco) so I'm not saying that Osorio is "clean" from mistakes but he also not the only responsible for our situation.

 

well, hard to say. No doubt that the kid had a lot of potential, but he is very inconsist. He had an amazing tournament with Caldas, finished as top scorer and took the title and tournament afterwards he was very bad. Now with us he started very well but disappeared for many games. currently he's not playing due to injury and also I think he needs a bit more of discipline but in general he is very talented player, very fast, great free kicks and excellent ball control. usually plays as a left winger, sometimes as a striker. Can be great replacement for Varela, by the way.

 

I agree, finally a decent game and another road win (just to imagine what would happened if we would succee a bit better at Atanasio...I didn't like the number of chances that Micolta missed. The guy has every game like 3-4 clear chances that he cannot put into the net. He is a good player, but he must be more focused. Valencia also scored a nice goal and we are about to get wonderful matches in the playoff when Millos, Nacional, Junior, Tolima already in. Hope that we'll get Mosquera and Pajoy for the playoff, then we'll be much better.

 

Basically I agree with you, even though I still hope that Uribe will finally start to score. It's unbelievable that this guy is on our team and has 2 goals in 17 matches...On the other hand, I can be relax with Mosco as well. After all he is a great player and has the ability to score goals. If Pajoy will return to his good form, we have good chances in this playoff.

 

CAMPEONES, CAMPEONES, OLE OLE OLE!!
0-2 over Pasto (Uribe, Valencia) and now we also have the Copa Postobon and we return to the Sudamericana. We deserved this title, 11 wins, 5 draws and one loss. Wasn't our best game, but we dominated without no doubt! Gracias mi Verde!!