Gustavo Quinteros praised Gabriel Costa after Colo Colo’s triumph: “An extraordinary boy”

Gabriel Costa excelled with a brace in Colo Colo’s (4-1) win against Universidad de Chile. The midfielder of the Peruvian team became the figure of commitment by scoring the second and fourth goals. For that reason, the player received praise from his technical director Gustavo Quinteros.

“Gabriel is an extraordinary boy and a great professional. The least he has to do as a coach is bank him in the bad, if you blame him when he doesn’t win. I don’t share that.” the ‘Albos’ strategist pointed out at the press conference.

In the same way, he referred to the performance of other soccer players during the classic for the National Championship. “Costa played a great game today, Gil played very well and then he lost his legs. Bolados entered well and Solari improved a lot”, he added.

As you remember, the Uruguayan nationalized Peruvian player received much criticism from Colo Colo fans. The former Sporting Cristal midfielder missed a penalty two dates ago in his team’s draw (1-1) against Audax Italiano

On that occasion, Gustavo Quinteros also came forward to defend him. “I don’t analyze or judge a player for one or two games. I know of the conditions that he has. I always bet on giving them confidence to, in some cases, recover the best level from him. I hope people understand it that way too.” mentioned a few weeks ago.

Gabriel Costa won the Chilean Super Cup

A month ago, the midfielder celebrated his first title of the year by lifting the Chilean Super Cup with Colo Colo, who beat Universidad Católica 2-0. Although he did not score, Gabriel Costa was mobile and created scoring chances. Therefore, he was chosen as the best player of the engagement.

“We continue with the development of our game. We had a good preseason. We are well prepared physically and mentally too. Today the work that we have been maintaining was demonstrated, the intensity, good posture when pressing, defending. To attack, not to mention. We are very happy”Costa told TNT Sports after the match.