Colombian national team coach Néstor Lorenzo has refuted claims of a confrontation with player Jhon Jáder Durán following a substitution during a match against Peru.Lorenzo also discussed his approach to managing player aggression and the team’s strategy when facing world champions Argentina.

Lorenzo clarified the situation involving Durán’s substitution,stating,”I already clarified because they invented everything here. With the player there was absolutely nothing. I said ‘Durán comes out, Suárez enters’ and nothing happened. Durán did not complain, or said anything, nothing absolutely.” He emphasized that witnesses could attest to the lack of any issue during the exchange.

addressing concerns about team unity, Lorenzo affirmed, “The group is united and the authority … I will not say that I am authoritarian, but it is how it has to be. The group is with the clear goal, knowing that the two worst games we played were two draws at home.”

Argentina Match: Managing Aggression

“It was a fight every divided ball. He played full In each ball. From the football it is good,what happens after the ball stopped is what I do not like.”

While denying overall tension within the team, Lorenzo admitted to addressing the players about thier behavior during the match against Argentina. He confessed that he had to scold the players for an attitude he did not like in the match against Argentina in the Monumental.

“I am a bit of aggressiveness. It truly seems to me that they were in a special way, they wanted to win but arguing each play,” Lorenzo explained. He elaborated, “It was a fight every divided ball. He played full in each ball. From the football it is indeed good, what happens after the ball stopped is what I do not like.”

Lorenzo also shared his insights on facing Argentina as the current world champion team. “Any approach can be violated by the technical and tactical capacity of the players,” he noted.

He added, “It is indeed a team that works very well, that handles the game times very well. The idea was to cut a little circuits and where Messi makes the difference when he finds you open.”

According to Lorenzo, “For the national coach, the task was met. In football, where a divided one wants and you can progress in the field or achieve numerical superiority through a sector of the field, you generate a play.”

He concluded, “Getting that Argentina does not dominate you, does not submit, it is already a goal because it does with most teams. One plays to compete, you know that you will win or lose, that there are minipartments where there is predominance of one or another team. A defensive idea would have been to put two lines of four, 4-5-1 and bet that they do not make me goals. That was not my idea, the idea of mine was to reach the rival arc and make goals.”