Lago, emphatic: «If we want to be champions, this is the way» | OneFootball

The agonizing 1-0 win over Estudiantes de Buenos Aires allowed Colón to take three key points, but it also left one certainty: the team found a way of playing that it must maintain in this decisive stretch of the Primera Nacional.

Ignacio Lago was emphatic in analyzing El Sabalero’s performance. For the forward, the approach was up to the task, and now the challenge is to turn that dominance into more goals. “We’re at a stage where we have to win no matter what. I think today the approach and the execution were good,” he said.

Colón pushed for much of the match and only found its reward near the end. Lago highlighted that persistence, though he admitted it is hard to sustain the same level throughout the entire game. “It’s hard to maintain the same intensity for 95 minutes, but when we can, we’re a fucking great team. We tried every possible way,” he stated.

The forward then focused on an aspect that could end up being decisive when the final stretch arrives: efficiency. Colón creates, takes the initiative, and gets chances, but it needs to score more from what it produces. “The difference with the big teams is efficiency. They create little and still score on you. The faster we improve that, the more positive results we’ll surely get,” he said.

In that regard, Lago pointed to Colón’s clearest example from the campaign: the match against Los Andes, when the team wrapped things up in just one half. “The other day it happened that we scored three goals in the first half. That’s what we have to keep repeating from now on,” he recalled.

The win over Estudiantes put El Sabalero right back in the fight near the top, but now it will have to show it can reproduce that version away from the Brigadier López. The next challenge will be against Mitre, and Lago has no intention of changing the approach just because they are playing away. “Right now, we have to win wherever it is. We have to bring against Mitre what we did today, which I think was very good,” he said.

That ambition was also clear when he was asked about the ultimate objective. Lago did not hide that the squad is thinking big and believes the match against Estudiantes can set the tone. “If we want to be champions, this is the way we have to play. Obviously improving our efficiency, but I think this is the path,” he said.

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