The Argentine strategist, Cesar Luis Menotti, is critical of the work of Jorge Sampaoli; however, he believes that the press has exaggerated against Argentina after the defeat suffered against Croatia in Matchday 2 of the Group Stage.
For the players "it is a drama, they have many hopes. They are the product of questioning, disorder, years without any organized project to know where they are."
"It hurts me a lot that they are criticized with such violence, they are still playing in the World Cup," said the strategist who led the Argentina that won the 1978 World Cup, to Radio Cooperativa.
Among the exaggerations that Menotti refers to, he points out that they have reached the point of falling into lies, such as rumors of a player rebellion against Sampaoli.
"I am ashamed of the amount of lies, the desperation of the press to get the news, the things that are said."
"They don't know what these guys must be suffering. I don't know any of them, except for Mascherano. But I know very well what a locker room is like in the sadness of a defeat or the threat of not qualifying," he added prior to the match between Argentina and Nigeria, for qualification to the Round of 16