Inter Miami CF head coach Xavier Mantrano labeled the conditions as “inhuman” by the team after the team won 1-0 on Sporting Cancas City in the first phase of the Consciousness Cup. Mercy was in the first round at Park.
“I am very proud to play in these situations,” Matcherano said at the post -match press conference. “It’s not human, you know, so I am very proud because they gave me 100% intense, with a lot of attitude, so we are happy. Try a very difficult game for us. “
Although Concacaf originally postponed the match for 24 hours due to several winter storm warnings between five to seven inches of snowfall in Kansas City, both teams faced through a frigid atmosphere on Wednesday night.
When the game closed on the whistle at 7:00 pm, the temperature in the Canasus City felt five degrees Fahrenheit as a negative five degree Fahrenheit. By Halftime, the negative eight degree Fahrenheit seems to have deteriorated to three degrees Fahrenheit.
Despite the weather, Lionel Messi managed to score his first official target of the year after joining with team partner Sergio Busquett for a long time and finished the play with the right -foot shot in the net.
“Fantastic (goal), I think perhaps for those who know him, it is normal because he had done such things or such goals 1,000 times, but we very much to keep it in our team Lucky, “Masterano said.
The result of Wednesday is a symbol of the first official victory for the new manager Mascherano, when he was appointed in the role to replace the Gerrardo ‘Tata’ Martino in the last November. Although Mascherano led the team to win several wins during the Presiden, the ConcacAF Champions Cup match stands as their debut in an official match.
Sporting Cancas City will now have to score at least twice in the second phase of the series to proceed in the next round in regulation time. SKC’s head coach Peter Vermas appreciated his players well for work, before disclosing that there is only one player who can change the course of the game.
Sporting Casey’s head coach Peter Vermes said, “I felt that we have really played well, we were very defensively organized. We did not give anything. There is a man (Messi) who can turn on the game and he Did.”
“It is not just (what he does) is not for us, it’s what he does for the whole world, whoever plays against him. He can change the game himself, and there are not many players you You can say more than the world’s game and more than generations. “
Inter Miami will now host Sporting Cancas City at Chess Stadium in Fort Lauderdel, Florida on Tuesday, on 25 February for the second phase of the first round series.