Luis Fernando Quintana, defense of the Pumas, mentioned that "we have to learn to be in the top positions" after losing the undefeated record against Morelia in matchday seven and ceding the first place in the table to America. What the homegrown player asks for is a quality that the team auriazul boasted about in the past and was forgotten by the team now coached by Miguel Gonzalez Michel.
"Winning mentality is trained, but it is also part of a team's mystique. Pumas is one of them, it was a club that showed how to build a winning mentality, based on work and the confidence that is generated by breaking old paradigms. It seems that they forgot everything that was built in the seventies, eighties, and nineties. We have to go back to history and identity, rebuild it. It is possible to relearn and train it," said Claudia Rivas, sports psychologist.
"Mentality" was the word that the three members of the Pumas team repeated the most after the defeat against Morelia. Míchel said it, Alfredo Saldívar agreed, and Luis Fernando Quintana spoke about it, disappointed with their performance at the Olympic Stadium.
"To avoid distrust, you have to remember what you're doing right, focus on what you're doing right. Analyze what can be corrected and correct it, take it back and realize that it's soccer, that you don't always win, but you always go out in search of a good result," recommends Claudia Rivas, who has 20 years in the field of sports psychology.
Pumas has a new opportunity to regain their memory and support their history. At the Tigres stadium, the Club Universidad Nacional has the mission of showing that they do not suffer from amnesia.