Ecuador coach Gustavo Alfaro pointed out the keys to overcome Vinotinto this Thursday, on the 13th date of the World Cup qualifying round.
Gustavo Alfaro ensures that the Ecuadorian soccer team must be “prepared for everything” in search of the triumph over Venezuela, this Thursday (16:00) in Quito, for the date 13 of the tie to the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
The coach is clear that La Vinotinto will play with the “need” of La Tri to obtain the three points, a factor that visitors “will seek to take advantage of.”
“It will be a game in which Venezuela will try to reduce spaces and exert pressure in the middle zone, know of our need to win and They will try to take advantage of every game circumstance“Said the tricolor coach in a virtual press conference on Tuesday.
Alfaro pointed out some keys to save the vinotinto pressure, but especially the “patience” that the national team must find to violate rival lines and score, but made a difference between “Be patient, but not tiring or slow”.
Before the llaneros, La Tri will come out “with determination, as we did against BoliviaWe have shown that from the draw we wanted to win the game, I asked the players for that and it will be repeated this Thursday, ”said the Argentine.
Among other factors that the strategist pointed out as “determinants” are “Concentration” during the game and “the ability to understand what the rival plans”, in addition to the “mobility and intensity that we can put to our game”.
Alfaro he regretted the five absences due to suspensions or injuries that he will have for this game, especially those in the definition zone with losses of Enner Valencia, due to injury, as well as Michael Estrada and Ángel Mena, due to suspension.
“We have important absences, but also players who can fill those functions, with steering wheels that have the ability to reach defining positions because we don’t have the usual forwards, that’s why we look for elements that tread the area and that become defining when we have the transitions, “he said.
El DT He emphasized the wear and tear that the national team will have being the one who proposes in attack and the one who fills the spaces on the court to mark superiority against the llaneros.
“We must be ready to do the wear back and forth, but that can take its toll on our players, something that we have planned with a significant level of replacement, even between the payroll for reach the end of the game with the same intensity”Alfaro pointed out. (D)

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