Post-Match Press Conference: South Africa Coach Hugo Broos After 2-0 Loss To Mexico (11 June)

[0:00] first question go ahead here microphone here please [0:04] eddov from espn uh hugo over the last five years you've developed a team which is composed [0:16] controlled organized but today we saw mudow's positioning was quite poor [0:22] cbc struggled with positioning yaya before his red card mcquenna was giving the ball away [0:28] maldiba giving the ball away ravers how do you understand the collective drop-in standards this [0:34] evening thank you i don't think it's a dropping standards of my player it's just the fact that [0:41] this level is much higher than whatever level you're playing world cup you play against a good team [0:50] but i also have to tell you that we played a good game i saw a desperate mexico some moments in the [0:57] game they didn't know what to do with the ball the organization was perfect defensively at the other [1:03] side offensively i think we have to improve there were some opportunities that with the last pass [1:11] or or the running of our players was not the right one so i think this is something to improve in the [1:18] next days and then i'm sure we can play the same game but being better offensively that we will have [1:25] a better result also yeah next question go ahead yeah yeah would have been waiting for that day for [1:34] his career it's probably the biggest day of his career he was partly told for a goal and he's being [1:40] sent off so how do you manage him emotionally now and pick him up after what's happened today yeah it's not [1:48] uh it's not nice for uh for both players if you get the red cards in the first game of the world cup but [1:55] uh the first red card i think you have to accept it it's a player who's going alone to the to the goal [2:03] and then um yeah yeah followed him so that i can understand but the second i think you can discuss [2:12] because um is the player the mexican player who block my player is the appreciation of of the referee we [2:20] have to accept it also but i don't think or maybe the other side it was a little bit too soft to give [2:28] that for that a red card we have two players now who can play in in the next game but we have still [2:35] other players and again if we can show the same mentality and the same way we play today i'm i'm sure [2:44] that we will have good results in the next two games thank you here good afternoon coach um from [2:52] soccer beat coach can you just maybe just take us through the tactics and also the decision what [2:59] influence the decision to play with you know ums bc or phone and then of course the two impacts which is [3:05] same as well as motiva in the back i think when uh when you show the game you will know why i did that [3:12] because again except the first 15 minutes where the pressure of mexico was high after that there was [3:20] a balance in the game again mexico became desperate they didn't know anymore what to do with the ball [3:28] the two central defenders were just waiting with the feet or with the foot on the ball so they didn't [3:35] see the solution i think that is the answer of your question why i played like this today all right first [3:43] row here good afternoon coach i had luck on the result coach just um how do you pick these boys up [3:52] because a result like this could be very hard on them how do you pick them off you know there is uh [4:06] there is still seven days so um those guys are professional uh i think if you can't recuperate in seven [4:15] days for another game that should be a little bit ridiculous so uh i'm um i don't think that will be a [4:22] problem i'm even sure that that will be will be a problem i think we need the next two days to get [4:30] over that disappointment of today and also the fatigue but uh from saturday sunday the guys will be ready [4:38] again to have good training and also again we have to work on our offensive uh game because it was not [4:47] enough today thank you next question there gentlemen yeah hi coach my name is john john johnson i'm from [4:54] tanzania so then i will be asking the afgore next year but today i just want to ask you the question [5:00] about south africa is like the underdog of the tournament people are saying that you'll be out [5:05] belson what is your answer to that do you think you go far to this tournament look um in a tournament you [5:22] never have to think too far because everything can happen so for us the goal stays like it was a week [5:29] ago we like to survive the group stages and it's still possible okay the start was not good was not [5:37] what we expected we didn't want to lose today but yeah it is what it is so uh we have to try to uh get [5:44] the points in the next two games and we will see thank you coach yeah yeah go ahead yes yes go ahead yes my [5:55] name is barbara anderson from argentina i want to know if the speed of the game in the south african [6:04] team was important for this uh this is a big quality of the mexican team that uh except maybe the guys in [6:16] the back but for the rest they're all players are very quick not only quick offensively but also quick [6:24] defensively and you saw the first goal we get from where the guy came to press on our player it was a [6:34] sprint of 20 meters i think so this is a big quality of the mexican team but again i think we managed it [6:42] good all the game in some moments better than in other moments but we managed it good and our game was not [6:52] so bad thank you we'll take the last one here yeah thank you very much good afternoon coach carlos [6:59] from tv azteca um these past few days you have been talking about azteca stadium the impact that it has [7:06] you played here 40 years ago against mexico and today there were certain periods of the match in which [7:12] the crowd was actually cheering for you guys and was booing mexican players at any point did you expect [7:20] that did it surprise you um let's say that i i believe and i've confident in my team and i knew i [7:29] knew that they should play a big game and a great game today they were motivated um they wanted to show [7:37] all the world what south african players are are how good they are so um what you say i'm very happy that [7:45] to tell that it was true and that's what i say already a few minutes ago the mexican players [7:51] sometimes were desperate they didn't know anymore how to find the spaces how to find the free player [7:58] but from our side again if we should have a better offensive play i think we should have been more [8:04] dangerous than today all right thank you very much all the best coach for your next game