Third Place in 2024 President’s Cup, Persis Solo Coach: Fantastic

Solo, Todaysgist.com – Persis Solo coach Milomir Seslija said that his team’s performance when facing Persija Jakarta in the match for third place in the 2024 President’s Cup was quite good.

“After we were beaten by Arema FC, today we showed a pretty good performance, and we did improve some things, like the tactical and mental aspects. Maybe we lost in time. rest (rest) because Persija Jakarta had a longer break, we played together and were much more compact today,” he said in the session. press conference after the match at Manahan Stadium, Solo City, Central Java, Saturday (3/8/2024).

Although Milo admitted, there should have been more goals that his team could have scored, because there were quite a lot of opportunities throughout the match. However, unfortunately only one goal was scored during the two halves of the match.

“This was a very impressive match, because actually there were several chances that should have been scored, maybe more than two goals but only one goal could be scored. However, this is good, because even Persija Jakarta in the first half also had difficulty in stealing opportunities,” he said.

Regarding the only goal scored by Ricardo Lima, the Bosnian coach admitted that it was in accordance with the tactics prepared from the start. Because, during the training session before the match for third place, he was indeed quite focused on set piece.

“In recent times we have been focusing on set piece and one of the things that is visible from what our training session did is the goal that Lima scored today also from a dead ball scheme. This fantasticit’s amazing because what we got today is based on what we did in the training session. So maybe that’s also what we have to-improve,” he explained.

Meanwhile, Persija Jakarta Coach Carlos Pena admitted that his team played very badly in the first half and was pressured by Persis Solo, who he considered played well.

“They played well and waited for us and then attacked with transitions, so in the first half we were not comfortable playing. In the second half when we started playing with a different mentality, and were more intense with the ball, so we got good opportunities. But unfortunately we finished the tournament in fourth place,” he said.