Charlotte FC faces the Seattle Sounders in week 14 of the 2022 Main League Soccer marketing campaign, and the Jap Convention aspect is set to make the journey depend.
Head coach Miguel Angel Ramirez admitted the enlargement crew won’t be intimidated by the 2022 Concacaf Champions League winners, however as a substitute needs a struggle for the three factors.
“I’m not taking a aircraft for nearly six hours to only struggle for some extent,” Ramirez mentioned throughout a Friday press convention.
“If I’m going there, it’s as a result of I need the three factors. If not, I keep right here. I by no means get up within the morning considering perhaps on Sunday we get some extent. I don’t have this mentality. I at all times go for 3 factors. And if not I don’t make my job.”
And after their mid-week US Open Cup victory towards the New York Pink Bulls, Charlotte FC’s confidence stays excessive. The crew knocked out their opponent within the competitors’s Spherical of 16, cementing themselves as a real contender.
Ramirez even revealed he noticed a aspect to Charlotte he had not skilled prior.
“I informed them within the halftime discuss that we have been making this step towards Pink Bull,” he mentioned.
“We have been competing a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot better in that sport than in any sport earlier than. Additionally due to the issue of the sport. For me, it was probably the most tough sport away that we now have till now. So the response was actually, actually constructive. They made that step.
“So after all I need now the consistency of this response. I need one other step. And one other step as particular person gamers and as a crew and myself as a coach, to get now a greater end result, a extra constructive end result for us. Not solely how we’re competing, however after all to get a very good end result we have to compete nicely. If not, there’s no likelihood.”
However regardless of latest victories and an elevated morale, the feat won’t be simple. The crew will face the Western Convention giants with out key gamers, together with Karol Swiderski, who’s presently 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.
Although the Seattle Sounders presently sit in twelfth place on the desk, their place will be deceiving and Ramirez is aware of the crew can’t rely on previous laurels to get previous MLS giants.
“They’ve a formation that they, a system that they use to repeat however from this formation, from this method they’ve plenty of mobility and completely different behaviors within the three completely different traces,” Ramirez mentioned of Seattle.
“Then there’s the person high quality that they should unbalance and to make the distinction in each line. So it will likely be very, very completely different from the final sport defending and attacking. So once more, you should perceive what we have to do to be efficient defending and what are the methods, what are the areas that we will take to have the ability to take probabilities.”
