The Paraguayan coach, Guillermo Barros Schelotto, said that he expects his players to impose character to beat Uruguay on Thursday on the vital date 15 of the South American pre-world championship.
“The important thing is to show character to win. Lor what matters most to me is the attitude and that we manage to impose our game against Uruguay”, said the counselor at a press conference.
“We are going to face players of hierarchy and of a high level. (Uruguay) He has the ability to play on our field. We’ll see. It has two players like (Luis) Suárez and (Edinson) Cavani who impose their game in Europe”, he observed.
“Warning all these things, I think Paraguay is going to prevail. Our chances depend on Thursday’s win. We are going out to win and we are convinced that we are going to win”, reiterated the Argentine coach optimistically.
Barros Schelotto said that his idea is to dominate with a football forceful “from minute zero” and try to take advantage of the locality.
ANDhe Ministry of Health authorized a capacity of up to 80% in the Cerro Porteño stadium despite the rebound of the Covid-19 pandemic. The coliseum of the party has capacity for 43,000 spectators.
Paraguay is ninth, out of ten selected in total, with 13 points, with little chance of getting one of the two tickets still available in South America for the World Cup. The fifth classified will play a playoff against a team from Asia. Brazil and Argentina are already classified.
Due to covid-19, in Paraguay there was the desertion of five of his summoned, winger Omar Alderete (Valencia ESP), midfielders Andrés Cubas (Nimes FRA) and Celso Ortiz (Monterrey MEX) and defender Roberto Fernández (local Guaraní) were also left out due to injury, and midfielder Jesús Medina for not obtaining permission from his new club, CSKA Moscow.