Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez lamented the absence of Liverpool striker Luis Suarez from their World Cup defeat to Colombia.
Ahead of the match, Tabarez went on a wide-ranging 15-minute rant about his striker's four-month ban and touched upon the Liverpool striker's absence again afterwards.
"We all knew about what happened (to Suarez) but we had to stop thinking about that," he said.
"We should only bring out the positive things that could come out of that situation and that generated a lot of strength and willingness to come out with good result.
"Suarez is a very important player, I don't think I have to say it, but we knew he wasn't going to play and knew already that he was not going to be close to us due to the punishment imposed on him."
Tabarez was asked again about Suarez towards the end of the post-match press conference, when he seemingly made another dig at English-speaking journalists.
"He is a football player, he was suspended," he added. "He was taken out and the rest is private.
"It is to be kept within the privacy of the group and I don't want to make it any bigger, particularly with these statements to people who have been after him for a long time."
