Charlotte FC faces the Seattle Sounders in week 14 of the 2022 Major League Soccer marketing campaign, and the Eastern Conference aspect is set to make the journey depend.
Head coach Miguel Angel Ramirez admitted the enlargement workforce is not going to be intimidated by the 2022 Concacaf Champions League winners, however as a substitute desires a battle for the three factors.
“I’m not taking a plane for almost six hours to just fight for a point,” Ramirez stated throughout a Friday press convention.
“If I go there, it’s because I want the three points. If not, I stay here. I never wake up in the morning thinking maybe on Sunday we get a point. I don’t have this mentality. I always go for three points. And if not I don’t make my job.”
And after their mid-week US Open Cup victory towards the New York Red Bulls, Charlotte FC’s confidence stays excessive. The workforce knocked out their opponent within the competitors’s Round of 16, cementing themselves as a real contender.
Ramirez even revealed he noticed a aspect to Charlotte he had not skilled prior.
“I told them in the halftime talk that we were making this step against Red Bull,” he stated.
“We were competing much, much, much, much, much better in that game than in any game before. Also because of the difficulty of the game. For me, it was the most difficult game away that we have until now. So the response was really, really positive. They made that step.
“So of course I want now the consistency of this response. I want another step. And another step as individual players and as a team and myself as a coach, to get now a better result, a more positive result for us. Not only how we are competing, but of course to get a good result we need to compete well. If not, there’s no chance.”
But regardless of latest victories and an elevated morale, the feat is not going to be straightforward. The workforce will face the Western Conference giants with out key gamers, together with Karol Swiderski, who’s at the moment with Poland on worldwide obligation, and an injured Yordy Reyna. Defenders Christian Makoun and Harrison Afful are additionally each questionable for the match after struggling thigh and decrease leg accidents, respectively.
Though the Seattle Sounders at the moment sit in twelfth place on the desk, their place may be deceiving and Ramirez is aware of the workforce can not rely on previous laurels to get previous MLS giants.
“They have a formation that they, a system that they use to repeat but from this formation, from this system they have a lot of mobility and different behaviors in the three different lines,” Ramirez stated of Seattle.
“Then there’s the person high quality that they must unbalance and to make the distinction in each line. So it is going to be very, very completely different from the final sport defending and attacking. So once more, you have to perceive what we have to do to be efficient defending and what are the methods, what are the areas that we are able to take to have the ability to take possibilities.”
