Lionel Messi y Luis Enrique will be the main protagonists of the duel between him Javier Mascheranocoach of Inter Miamithrobbing the expected duel against Paris Saint-Germain For the round of 16 of the Club World Cup 2025.
“We are not illusory and we know that we are the weakest team, but that does not imply that they kill us in advance. We are going to fight.”Mascherano said at a press conference in the previous crossing this Sunday in Atlanta.
And he added, after the group stage he shared with Al Ahli, Porto and Palmeiras, the other classified: “We cannot come tomorrow to think that we already did and throw the game.” For the Jife, Inter Miami has to go out to “try to make the best possible game”: and completed: “That at some point the game of some chance to be able to fight it and have options to pass the tie.”
“The challenge tomorrow is to come and try the best team in the world. Knowing the difficulty of the game”Mascherano said about the PSG, which he said has “a unique power.” For the DT, his team “has earned the right to play”, knowing that it was “very difficult” to move from the group stage. “I don’t know how many times we are going to have the possibility as a club to face an opponent like the PSG,” he added.
On the strategy for this Sunday, Mascherano said that Inter should try to impose its “rhythm.” “If we play the rhythm of them we will suffer much more,” he explained, and remarked that he urged his players to “play courage”, without “burning the ball on their feet.” “He has shown us that it is not a perfect team and it can be harmed. We have to find a way to take advantage of the few opportunities they will give us,”he concluded.
The “challenge” of facing Luis Enrique
In the same conference, Mascherano also valued what he will mean to face the DT of the brand new Champions champion, who directed him in Barcelona: “It will be very nice to see him. And also the fact of being able to try this type of coaches is a challenge“.
The exvolant admitted that Luis Enrique, a coach “who accelerates in the curves”, has been a technician who He has “marked a lot”. “For us, we have been much below, to have the possibility of being able to face a team and a coach like this, it is a challenge, a great challenge,” insisted the coach of the herons.
Luis Enrique trained Mascherano in Barcelona between 2014 and 2017, with the Triplet Conquest in 2015. In addition to Masche, in that team there were also Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba, all of them today in the ranks of Inter Miami.
It is expected that at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium at least Messi, Suárez and Busquets will be headlines. Jordi Alba, who has not yet played as a starter, “is in a position to play,” said Mascherano.
