The Concachampions football party returns this 2021, where the Portland Timbers will have to visit Héctor Vargas’ Marathon, a mourning scheduled for this Tuesday at the Olympic Stadium.
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The MLS team does not want to be surprised on his visit to Honduras and his coach, Giovanni Savarese, has made it clear that his managers have prepared very well to overcome the series.
“We finally got to this game that we were looking forward to because we’ve been working hard for a long time now, the players came back to the preseason physically prepared, mentally ready,” he indicated.
After several days of preparation, where they have not yet started the tournament in Major League Soccer, the mentality and preparation was planned in this duel against the Marathon.
“We put a lot of planning into this game because we know how important it is, it’s the first game of the Concachampions, we want to start in the best way with the MLS teams because we represent American football, we have this responsibility on and the we want to manage in the best way “.
Saverese has studied Vargas’ team very well and it is very clear that he is not trusted despite the bad campaign that the monster is experiencing in the Clausura tournament.
“We know that this match there is complicated, no matter how you are doing at the Marathon in the championship. We know that it is a team that has players who can complicate you, they have a very definite idea of what they want to be. We have to “go with the plan and execute in the best way if we want to return to Portland with a condition to pass the turn. This match is crucial and we have prepared very well.”
Another aspect that the Venezuelan coach did not miss is the conditions under which he can be found during his visit to the city of San Pedro Sula.
“The most important part is how we adapt to the things we will achieve and how we can get the best out of all these situations that we will surely find in all kinds of aspects. The conditions that we will find in San Pedro Sula in relation to the heat, the humidity, the type of terrain, we are ready, we have already talked a lot with the players and we know about the difficulties we can find.I think the most important thing and that can give us an advantage is how fast we can adapt to any situation in this first game “.
And he closed by saying, “We know we’re going to face a complicated, strong, tough team and we’re mentally prepared for that.”