Marathon visit this Tuesday (6pm Honduran time) Portland Timbers in the eighth round of Concacaf Champions League and Héctor Vargas says the team is confident in achieving qualification.
The esmeralda quarterback recovers Luis Garrido for this game and can now count on Carlo Costly, who was eliminated in the first leg due to muscle problems.
“We have a mix of youth and experience that is important in these types of matches. We couldn’t count on Garrido, a national team player who played qualifying rounds, or Precious, who had muscle problems. The experience of the two. more (Emilio) Izaguirre and the youth can make us play a good game because I think Portland has a game that gives us more options when we visit, ”he said at a press conference.
Vargas believes the speed of some of his attacking men may be key.
“We have a fast game that when they get behind us it’s hard for us, but if they give us space because we’re local, we can take an advantage. At home when it was 2-1 he saw that he played the series and “Scoring the third, that’s when we’re right. We’ve unfolded that to do it. Not winning at home is going uphill, but we have fast players to get a good result.”
The Argentinian provided details of the players he could try to harm the North American team with.
“We couldn’t have Garrido and he’s an important player. We had to put Arriaga further back. Now we can give him a little more freedom, leave a quick lead like Castillo, Solani or Machuca, maybe make an attacking triangle with everyone else.” soon we have and leave Kervin, Garrido and Emilio in the middle. We will have people who can fight in the middle and race to the sides and with the man in the front. According to the theory that (Portland) has of the game, we can try to insult him and generate options that I’ve already played here, they always want to have the opponent close to their frame and with speed we can make them more complicated.
A note for Edwin Solani
If there is one thing Vargas has made very clear, it is that the team is not confident, but they are confident that they can get the visit ticket. In addition, he sent a message to Edwin Solani, who has not excelled that much in the Clausura in the National League.
“To be confident is one thing and to have confidence is another. To be confident is to think things have already been resolved, to have confidence is another. Since the last tournament we had a lot of success, we were second. Although some footballers have failed in this championship. due to injuries or low, which is common in Central America when there is a player who asks for or wants a team who has the ability to lower his performance. done in this championship, but we have the gist of those who qualified for this tournament. It’s not that we have confidence, it’s that we are sure that we can turn the situation around. “
About the ability to play with the audience:
“It’s going to be fun. I had to take them out in Portland with Olimpia, I’m so lucky. Valeri,” Gata “Fernández, Chará was already there. Several that competed and of quality like today’s. There was an audience, there A lot of people came that time. The audience here is different, calmer, they enjoy the show and if the percentage is lower it can affect itself, but it’s the players that solve it. I don’t think it’s us in that way more complicated, it will frame the show and it seems that the absence of an audience is boring us all. ”
Play on a synthetic field:
“It will affect us as it will affect them in the Olympics. It’s a fast track, the floor always speeds up the football, maybe it eats you a little more legs than we are used to. We will have to adapt.” If they could get a draw we’re afraid to go through the effort and see if we can get the win, but if it has a little more impact on the pitch than a small crowd in the stands.
Belief that classification can be achieved:
“We have confidence. It is not that we have confidence, it is that we have confidence that we can make it to that classification. I had to play here, I know this team game, we have studied it a lot for years. on the other day when we were able to save the draw. If you didn’t know the rival we could have lost by a wide margin. An MLS team is not the same right now as it was in the second semester when they came with more filming and the possibility of winning you through the investment of good players they hire. They come from the preseason, they tune engines and sometimes you can take advantage, we will try to get the positive result for Honduras. “
The team we will see next Tuesday:
“Marathon has to be an intelligent team, we can’t move forward because it’s a synthetic and big field, but we have to go out with speed and people like Solani, Castillo, Ramírez. I don’t know the game of this team, like everything else in MLS. he speculates, they are going to look for the result and we have to take advantage of that. More if there are people who are going to push them to look for the result and they will give us the space behind it to be able to use the fast players. we have. “