Marathon visit on Tuesday (18:00 Honduran time) at Portland Timbers in the eighth round of CONCACAF Champions League and Héctor Vargas says the team is confident of qualifying.
The strategist esmeralda recovers Luis Garrido for this match and will now be able to count on Carlo Costly, who was in the first leg due to muscle problems.
“We have a mixture of youth and experience that is important in this kind of game. There we could not rely on Garrido, a player of the national team who played qualifying rounds or Costly, who had muscle problems. The experience of the two they more (Emilio) Izaguirre and the young people can allow us to play a good game because I think Portland has a game that gives us more possibilities when we visit, “he said at a news conference.
Vargas believes that the speed of several of his men in the attack may be essential.
“We have a quick game that if they get behind us, it’s difficult for us, but if they give us space because we’re local, we can get an advantage. At home, when it was 2-1, he saw that he could secure the series and score third, then we tied him in. We have that deployment to do it. Not winning at home means going up, but we have fast players to get a good result.
The Argentine provided details about the players with whom he could seek to harm the North American team.
“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, let’s leave a quick lead like Castillo, Solani or Machuca, maybe we can an offensive triangle with everyone. quickly we have and let Kervin, Garrido and Emilio hold the middle. We will have people who can fight in the middle and can accelerate on the side and with the man on the front. Portland) has the game, we can try to offend him and generate options that we have already played here, they want to have the opponent always close to their frame and we can quickly complicate them.
A little note for Edwin Solani
If there is one thing that Vargas has made very clear, the team is not confident, but he is confident that he can get the business card. In addition, he sent a message to Edwin Solani, who did not shine as brightly in the National League Clausura.
“Trust is one thing and trust is another. To be confident means to believe that things are already resolved, to have confidence is something else. From the previous tournament we had a good success, we were runners-up. due to injuries or low, something common in Central America when there is a player who asks for a team or wants it, who has this possibility, decreases his performance. We didn’t do well in this championship, but we have the essence of those who qualified for this tournament. We are not confident, but we are confident that we can reverse the situation. “
Regarding the possibility to play with the public:
“It will be nice. I already had to come and eliminate them in Portland with Olimpia, I’m so lucky. Valeri,” Done “Fernández, Chará was already there. Many who competed and quality as today. A former audience, a lot of people came at that time.The audience here is different, quieter, they enjoy the show and if the percentage is lower it can be influenced, but the players are the ones who solve it.I don’t think it will complicate us In this respect, it will frame the show and it seems that the absence of an audience bores us all. “
Play on a synthetic field:
“It will affect us as it will affect them at the Olympics. It’s a fast field, the floor always speeds up the football, maybe it eats you a little more legs compared to what we are used to. We will have to adapt. If he could get a draw, we are afraid to make the effort and see if we can get the victory, but if it affects the ground a little more than a little the public in the stands.
Do you think the classification could be achieved:
“We are confident. We do not trust, but we trust that we can achieve that classification. I had to play here, I know this team game, I studied it for a few years. could influence the past few days when we managed to save the draw. If you don’t know the opponent, we could have lost by a wide margin. An MLS team at the moment is not the same as in the second semester when it comes with more videos and the possibility to win by investing in good players that it hires. They come from the pre-season, adjust the engines and sometimes you can take advantage, we will try to get the positive result for Honduras. “
The team we will see on Tuesday:
“The marathon must be a smart team, we can’t continue, because it is a synthetic and big field, but we have to go out with speed like people like Solani, Castillo, Ramírez. I know the game of this team, just like everything MLS does. he speculates, they go out to look for the result and we have to take advantage of that. Moreover, if there are people, who will push them to look for the result and will give us the space behind us to be able to use the fast players we have. “