Choice of Honduras directed by a Colombian Reinaldo Rueda This Friday, they will have the challenge of overcoming Mexico, a rival against whom they have lost seven of 10 games since 2015, in the first leg of the Concacaf Nations League quarter-finals, which will be played in Tegucigalpa at (21:00 Panama time).
The Hondurans They enter the game at a disadvantage given how little time it takes to prepare. Wheel with the national team since he was named the new coach on July 31, for the second time since he managed to qualify the Central American nation for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
In the last ten games they played Honduras and Mexico, Between November 17, 2015 and June 25, 2023, the Aztecs won seven, drew two and lost one.
A team of Mexico He arrives at the game on Friday with a team that includes players with football experience from that country and abroad, and more international contact with their national team than the Hondurans.
Last Monday, Rueda noted that the Mexican team was “in a good moment” for its commitment to Honduras, with players “in the top leagues of the world.”
Choice of Mexico “It’s intense and our task will be to try to make a game with those characteristics,” Rueda told reporters, while also evaluating the resources he has. Honduras, fifteen of them play abroad, including forwards Anthony Lozano of Getafe, Spain, and Luis P.soul, from Celt., Scot.
In Mexico, among other things, Luis Chávez, from Dinamo Moscow; Hiriving Lozano, from PSV Eindhoven; Orbelín Pineda, from AEK Atenas, and Guillermo Ochoa, goalkeeper from Salernitana, Italy.
About the match against Honduras, Chávez said a day earlier that “it is a good challenge for us to see what we are made of”.
The return match between the Mexicans and the Hondurans will be played next Monday at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, which has played twice for the World Cup.
Series winner in between Honduras and Mexico It will seal the ticket to the 2024 Copa América to be held in the United States.
If Honduras managed to get to America’s Cup, will help him prepare for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers United States, Canada and Mexico.
Source: Panama America
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