Jonathan Calleri admitted his frustration after suffering from pain in his right calf during the comeback victory over Cobresal, 3-1not Chile, peel CONMEBOL Libertadores.
Scorer of the third goal São Paulothe striker left the field quite upset because of the physical problem and vented his feelings after the final whistle.
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“I’m frustrated. I can’t have a big sequence. I felt my calf, but I have to see what I’m doing wrong to try to hurt less,” Calleri told Globo TV.
“The Brazilian football calendar is crazy. The amount of travel we have. We hardly sleep, we sleep on the flight, we train as best we can. We have been traveling for 15 days. But it’s not an excuse. My teammates are fine and I have to improve so I don’t get hurt.”
In fact, Calleri has suffered a lot with physical problems since last year.
The striker played practically the entire season in sacrifice and had to undergo surgery on his right ankle after winning the unprecedented Copa do Brasil title.
This year, Calleri was absent from the quarterfinals of the Paulista championshipagainst Novorizontinoand in São Paulo’s debut in the Libertadores, against Workshopsin Argentina, due to the rupture of a Baker’s cyst in the posterior region of the right leg.
Despite São Paulo’s classification in the round of 16 of the Libertadores, Calleri made a point of highlighting some points to be improved collectively, especially because the team started this Wednesday’s duel, with Cobresal, losing.
“I think the team is doing quite well, we are managing to play the way we want. But, what happened today happened. We get a little lazy, at altitude the guys know how to play here. We can’t make ten, 15 passes in a row, we miss a pass and they score. You have to turn the result around. These things in the Libertadores cannot happen, we have to improve many things, but we are on the right path”, he concluded.