By: EFE Updated 26 Mar 2022, 10: 17 am EDT
Panamanian striker Gabriel “Gaby” Torres said this Friday after the tie with Honduras this Thursday that he took them away from the World Cup in Qatar 2022, who has to suffer until the end of the Concacaf qualifiers.
“We are Panama, we have to suffer, we are not Brazil, we are going to qualify many dates before the end of the tie”, said Torres, a World Cup forward in Russia 2018, before a team training session.
“And so we are going to finish the qualifying rounds, we have to suffer until the last minute, we are going to do it, but united as a group” , specified the current player of Deportes Antofagasta of the First Division of Chile.
Torres, who has not enjoyed many minutes in the octagonal, indicated that the game against Honduras left many lessons learned: “yesterday there was a Not a very good game, but many good things were done and we have to keep improving“.
He pointed out that the following matches, against the United States and Canada, are two “very difficult and we need everyone to be able to move this forward”.
The Panama team must not repeat the mistakes against Honduras against the United States to “go to look for a positive result there that keeps us with options of being able to qualify for the World Cup at home and with our people”, he added.
Another who appeared before the media after the stumble against the Catracha squad was Alberto Quintero, who remarked that “as long as there are possibilities” we must continue.
“We are a strong and united group, we have two games left, we must not lower our heads, keep believing and have faith and at As long as there are opportunities, we have to keep trying”, s he pointed to him.
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About the tie against Honduras, which takes Panama out of qualifying area via playoff, the player from Universitario de Perú recognized that there were mistakes on everyone’s part.
“Yesterday we were all wrong, we the players, the coaching staff, we have recognized it and the press was wrong in many contexts, we must not forget that we are Panama and we are a team that will always fight to get in”, he said.
The Panamanians trained this Friday at the Rommel Fernández Gutiérrez stadium, prior to their trip this Saturday to Orlando, Florida, where will be measured against the United States team on the penultimate date of the Concacaf qualifiers.
Panamanians occupy fifth place with 18 points, below Costa Rica, in fourth place and 9 units, the United States and Mexico, are the second and third classified and Canada remains in the lead with 25 integers.