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America comes to the game Round of the Semifinals of the CONCACAF Champions League with a two-goal lead over Philadelphia Union, But despite this Guillermo Ochoa calls on his teammates not to fall into overconfidence and to play the game seriously to keep the ticket to the Final, an instance in which the club azulcrema it hasn’t arrived in five years.
“Everything can happen in football, sometimes they can reach you without overconfidence, The opponent counts, but it will depend a lot on what we do and stop doing on the court. We are always committed to dressing the beach of America for its history and its hobby and it’s up to us to face the game like a 0-0. We have the hierarchy and the experience to do it and they will not make it easy for us because they have nothing to lose and we have to play with the knife between his teeth, with his sleeves rolled up“Because it’s a semifinal and it’s fighting to the death,” he told a news conference.
Ochoa expressed the obligation that a team like America has to be fighting for titles, in order to in the 2020 edition they stayed on track being eliminated by Los Angeles FC.
“It makes me very excited, because it puts us in front of a Final to lift a title beyond the Club World Cup and to get rid of this thorn in the staff of this Concachampions where we could not reach the Final in Orlando, with excitement and seriousness because if we played a good game in the first leg and the return leg it will be tricky and we can’t think of the advantage. “
Memo sees far from the end of MX League hegemony in CONCACAF
Since establishing the CONCACAF Champions League in 2008-09 the tournament it has only been won by Mexican teams, And only three times the Final has not been between Aztec clubs, so Memo Ochoa sees far from it that this hegemony is over.
“Historically it is a tournament dominated by Mexico and it took many years for get it won by an MLS team or Central America, we know in advance that on the way you run into Mexican clubs and now it may be in the Final and we’ll see what happens next, but at the moment we are not and we can not talk about a Final until we play the Vuelta and we have to take it seriously and we can’t trust ourselves “.