Kansas City. - Aware of the importance of this Monday's match against Sporting Kansas City, defenders Jesús Orozco Chiquete and Cristian Calderón shared their points of view with the media this morning on how they should approach this match, as a place in the Round of 16 of the Leagues Cup is at stake.
Here are the sound bites from both red and white defenders:
Jesus Orozco:
- "(Sporting KC) is a great team, with great players, very dynamic, that builds from the back, and they will go out looking for the win".
- The team is aware of the objective we have, what we are playing for and we are going to give our all. We know that we are playing for a ticket, it will be a very complicated match, but we hope to win".
- I don't think they will affect us (the altitude and weather conditions), it depends on us, on how we go out, how we take the match, it's in our hands.)
- "We arrived well to the match, the previous result moved a lot of things, we realized that we cannot go out like we did against Cincinnati, the start of the match is very important, we are aware of what we are playing for."
- It will be a very dynamic, even match, as we saw in their match against Cincinnati, they are not an easy opponent, they were winning 2-0, if they hadn't had a player sent off, maybe the result would have been different".
- What favors us the most is the teamwork, the attitude shown by each one of my teammates, we showed it against Cincinnati, and if we play as we did the last 40 minutes we have a good chance of advancing".
- Keeping a clean sheet will be important and from there we can start with order and stability in front and at the back".
Cristian Calderón
- "We know the importance of this game, we know what we are facing, a team with similar characteristics to Cincinnati, we are convinced of winning."
- "We had a sad game the previous one, but now we are convinced to get the victory, get the 3 points and stay in the tournament".
- We must not lose, it is the only thing that can help us, it is very little time we have been training, but we know what we are playing for, where we stand today".
- We are used to getting out of adverse situations, that has characterized us, coming from behind is the best we know how to do and tomorrow we hope to come out with the result".
- "We have to go out well focused on what we have to do, work as we have done in the League, in previous matches and that will not help us to get the result."
- "The fans are behind us, just like in Mexico, and here (in the United States) twice as much, those who come from Mexico plus those who live here, it feels very nice."
