Ecuador coach Félix Sánchez Bas said on Wednesday that if Argentina captain Lionel Messi “has a good day,” even if his team does a good job, “it’s hard to stop him.”
“They have the best in the world. If he has a good day, even doing things well, it’s hard to stop him,” said the Spanish coach in a press appearance offered at the San Lorenzo facilities in Buenos Aires, before the duel against in Argentina, the debut of both teams in the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.
The former coach of Qatar, who played in the opening match of the 2022 World Cup precisely against his current team, Ecuador, commented that Argentina will definitely want to continue “showing that they are still there, as the first in the world “, so ‘ The Tri’ must play at the highest level, because “if you don’t master all the stages of the game, it’s hard to compete”.
Sánchez Bas commented that, although this Thursday’s match is “against the current world champion and his field”, we must “plan the fight”.
“You always raise it with respect, see how to prevent them from taking advantage of their strengths and, at the same time, come to try to develop or create our chances, our game; see where we can hurt them. It is clear that this is not an easy task,” commented the former Barcelona A youth coach who trained at La Masia, like Leo Messi.
“Given Scaloni time to work”
Sánchez Bas emphasized that the Albiceleste is “a very compact team in all phases of the game”, especially since the base of the team has been the same for several years and its coach, Lionel Scaloni, “They gave him time to work and it paid off.”
Argentina will host Ecuador this Thursday at the Más Monumental Stadium, in Buenos Aires, which will be full for the debut of the current world champions in the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.
Among the more than 84,000 fans that will fill the stands, there are around 2,500 Ecuadorians who will cheer on the ‘Tri’, who will start the qualifying round with three less points as a result of the ‘Castillo case’, which is about to leave the Ecuadorian team in Qatar World Cup 2022.
Source: La Verdad
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