This Wednesday night Inter Miami will have one of the most important and media matches in what will be their revenge in the second leg of the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Champions League in Mexico against the Rayados de Monterrey, who achieved victory in the first leg with a score of 2 goals to 1 in Fort Lauderdale.
The match played on American soil had all the ingredients necessary that created more than one tense and quite heated moment, added to the statements of the Argentine coach Fernando Ortíz, which generated much more tension with Lionel Messi.
The revenge more vibrant than ever
Just hours away from what will be the match that will define the club that will obtain its ticket to the semifinals, the coach of the Rayados de Monterrey had words in a recent press conference in a much more relaxed tone about what happened in Miami last week: “That anxiety that one may feel is because of wanting to play the game. I have a difficult task because everyone wants to play, whoever gets to enter has to give their all because the series is still open. We have to calm that anxiety because we are at home in front of our people, we have to play an intelligent and perfect game,” Tano commented at a press conference.
Monterrey’s strategy for the return
Ortiz was quite clear in stating that the team is not going to make it up as they go along.: “We are not going to change anything, we are going to go out and win from the first minute and we will not consider the sporting advantage we have. I don’t like to think about the sporting advantage. I am not of the idea of taking care of a result. On the contrary, we are going to go and propose and not wait for anything,” said the southern leader.
The Messi theme more alive than ever
Messi apparently is already at 100% in terms of his physical condition, and scored a goal in the recent matchday number 7 in Major League Soccer in a duel against the Colorado Rapids and this is something that Ortiz is clear about and plans to face in the best way: “He has faced the best coaches in the world and they did not find the solution in marking Lionel. It’s something I said and I say it again: what he does with the ball is indecipherable. When you think the ball is not going to go in, it goes in; When you think he’s not going to haggle, he haggles. You have to enjoy it, but I insist again that we want to win. Respect, above all, but on the playing field we are going to try to be focused for the 95 minutes of the game and close it at home.”
“I don’t play anymore, but those emotions are going to be transferred by the players who enter the playing field.”. I said it and I say it again: playing these kinds of games with the best in the world is a satisfaction, but once the game starts, the best player in the world becomes just another player. I told them the first week that we knew we would face Inter Miami. They have to understand that, although we have to enjoy, we want to win. That is the idea, we have shown it in the first leg in Miami,” concluded the former player who made his life at Boca Juniors at the time.
Inter Miami is already in Mexico
The ‘Las Garzas’ players arrived in Mexico for the rematch and the expectations for this second leg match of the quarterfinals are quite high, especially given the fact that Messi is almost certain to start the match.
Nicolás Sánchez, Ortiz’s assistant, commented last week that Messi tried to attack him after the game. “I am going to tell this audio that will surely be forwarded to many groups, and people who are asking me the same thing. Yes, Messi wanted to fight me. I don’t think he wanted to hit me, because otherwise he would have hit me. Because he had me an inch away. He put his fist next to my face. “I think he was looking for my reaction more than hitting me.”
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