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“We are looking forward to the game,” said Deila. “It was a very strange season, and we trailed 1-0, but we showed in the game the last time we could do something against Tigres. Tigres are a very good team, that also says something about us Tomorrow we’re going to go out and fight to show that we are capable of going to the semi-finals.
“We wanted to play every game throughout, but it was a very, very exciting game and a tough game and a mentally negative game at the end to lose to Orlando. But we had a lot of time to deal with that. I think the boys have gone through some changes over the season it’s been so, so good to just look forward and deal with it and move on We got up before after a disappointing game and we will do it again I think the boys have been training very well over the last few weeks, they have been very professional and are looking forward to tomorrow’s game It’s a big game for us and we want to finish with a trophy now before we go home for Christmas.”
In a normal year, NYCFC would have traveled to the notoriously hostile Estadio Universitario of the Tigers for the rematch, but will instead play it in Orlando, where NYCFC has experience in this year’s MLS is Back tournament. summer.
When asked if this could give his team any advantage, the striker Taty Castellanos said he felt like taking all the variables into consideration, it was all probably a washout: While NYCFC played in Orlando recently, Castellanos said the drastic climate change and travel the same day always made it very difficult, while Tigers has to face a long journey in a new country in an unfamiliar environment.
“The truth is it’s complicated, honestly, because earlier this season we played a few games in Orlando and those didn’t really go well for us even though there were no fans and that it was a neutral site,” Castellanos said. “The weather definitely affects us. It’s very cold in New York and it’s hot in Orlando, and we’re traveling on the same day, which could hurt us, with climates changing so quickly.
“But for them they also don’t have it easy obviously, they’re traveling to another country, they’re playing in a new stadium, so I personally think it’s an equal game. It’s even both sides I don’t think it’s necessarily better for us but we go into it knowing we’re 1-0 down but we have a lot of confidence that we can play well and with that confidence and that mentality I’m sure we can win.”
