Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Salomon Murillo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Estudiantes de Caracas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roberto Rondon is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Estudiantes de Caracas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Sergio Martinez has come out of that comparison in the side, and Estudiantes de Caracas have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Richard Martinez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Gabriel Moreno will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Estudiantes de Caracas escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Salomon Murillo wants continental football; whether Estudiantes de Caracas can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Salomon Murillo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.