Canada coach says Argentina should be fined
\n ATLANTA
\nCanada coach Jesse Marsch said Argentina should be fined after they came out late for the start of the second half in their Copa America match on Thursday.
\nThe game was goalless at the interval and after the half-time break the Canadian players were left standing on the field for several minutes waiting for Argentina to emerge.
\nThe world champions scored within four minutes of the re-start and went on to win 2-0 with American Marsch suggesting they were using the time for some extra video analysis.
\n\u201cWhen they were waiting, I knew that they were looking at video and they were analyzing how they wanted to play against us,\u201d he told the post-match press conference.
\n\u201cNow, I wish again, the referees would manage that. If we were five minutes late, we\u2019d get a fine. There\u2019d be a big problem. Let\u2019s see what happens with Argentina,\u201d the former Leeds United manager said.
\nMarsch said he had told his players to expect a change in approach from Argentina after the break.
\n\u201cIn the end, I just made sure that the players knew that they were going to come out with a new plan and they basically rotated a little bit more to three, but we still dealt with it,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cArgentina should be fined. OK? Fined. Write that. Ol\u00e9. La Nacion,\u201d he said, directing his comments at the Argentine press.
\nMarsch was more positive about his own team\u2019s performance after the 48th ranked team in the world, who he took the reins of last month, caused the world number one plenty of headaches.
\n\u201cBig picture is we, I thought, had a good performance and especially when we were able to execute our tactical plan, we made it very difficult on Argentina and really could have had some goals, could have had the lead,\u201d he said.
\nThe game was just the third with Canada for Marsch who led the team in a 4-0 friendly defeat away to the Netherlands before a 0-0 draw in France against Didier Deschamps\u2019s team.
\n\u201cI said to the team afterwards that we take this game, but we also take the three matches,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s been unfair to them in some ways to be put in a situation to expect to have early success with a new manager in a new situation when we have to play these levels of opponents,\u201d he added.
\n\u201cBut I think we\u2019ve learned a lot from it and mostly we\u2019ve learned that we can play. We can play with these teams,\u201d added Marsch.
\nCanada face Peru and Chile in their other Group A games as they look to make it into the quarter-finals .
\n\u201cI think where we sit right now, as painful as it is to know that we let this game slip away from us when we had certain things in control, I do believe that we come away from the three matches stronger, clearer and more prepared, hopefully more mature for what it\u2019s going to require,\u201d said Marsch.
\n\u201cBut Peru will be another really tough match and we can\u2019t assume anything and we have to keep pushing this group to develop, to improve, to get better,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Canada coach says Argentina should be fined ATLANTA Canada coach Jesse Marsch said Argentina should be fined after they came out late for the start of the second half in their Copa America match on Thursday. The game was goalless at the interval and after the half-time break the Canadian players were left standing on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-413813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n