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Gerardo Martino admitted coach Paraguay said Thursday that his team need to improve and develop performance if he wants to achieve its goal of reaching the quarter-finals for the World Cup football for the first time in its history.

Martino stressed that his team did not play well in the match draw with New Zealand on a negative at the end of confrontations Group F World Cup South Africa, but noted that Paraguay has achieved its goal of reaching the last sixteen at the head of the group.

And Paraguay meet with the squad in second place in Group E, in Pretoria on Tuesday, Martino explained that the knock-out match is probably the easiest of the game that took place in Polokwane.

The "It's a knockout, you realize you either continuous or out, but today (Thursday) the situation was different."

It was Paraguay, which plays in the World Cup for the eighth time, but has never passed the quarter-finals, is the better side but did not begin the implementation of serious attacks just before the end of the game.

The Martino that the game was very strange and different, "because we were not allowed us to do anything wrong," he said to the players entered the game and they think to win this match and at the same time are worried sense of fear, "because you are a single attack has right-handed against you view and then to be the lead does not qualify to the second round. "

Martino noted that the pitch, semi-synthetic did not help his team.

"I do not want to make excuses, we did not Trkin and largely Dqiqiin, the pitch can help or not help, the pitch was very fast, because there are between 25 and 30 percent of synthetic fibers."

"I did not plays one well everyone suffered tension, in the second half our pressure is greater than the first half, the best part of this game is we qualified."

Striker Roque Santa Cruz, winner of man of the match, the team achieved its goal of reaching the knockout round.