The Canadian Men’s National Team will head into their clash towards Uruguay subsequent week stuffed with confidence following their 2-0 win over Qatar on Friday.
John Herdman’s aspect beat the 2022 World Cup hosts 2-0 in Austria thanks to objectives from Cyle Larin and Jonathan David contained in the opening 13 minutes. The Reds remained in cost all through the match, managing eight photographs on track to Qatar’s two and controlling 60% possession.
However, Tuesday’s check towards Uruguay – whose present squad contains the likes of Luis Suarez, Darwin Nunez, and Rodrigo Bentancur – can be a fully totally different expertise, even when Diego Alonso’s aspect had been humbled 1-0 by Iran on Friday.
But Herdman is not phased. In truth, he is excited to check his crew towards one in all South America’s finest as Canada’s first World Cup since 1986 looms ever nearer.
“That will be a tough test,” Herdman stated following Friday’s win. “But this is the stuff we dream of. We’ve been playing CONCACAF opponents for four years. All the players have been dreaming all their international career (of) playing teams of the stature of Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina. This is the stuff we’ve been waiting for.
“For us it is a cup ultimate taking part in towards Uruguay, comparable to taking part in towards a Belgium or a Croatia (whom Canada will face in Group F on the World Cup). So there’s an pleasure there. But once more we’ve to mood that with the fact of the standard that they’ve after which we have to put the work in these subsequent three days.”
Tuesday’s match is Canada’s penultimate fixture before they open their World Cup campaign against Belgium on November 23, with a friendly against Japan to come just six days prior to that historical clash.