Costa Rica, with goalkeeper Keylor Navas as the standard, will face New Zealand on Tuesday in an intercontinental playoff match in which the last ticket to the Qatar 2022 World Cup will be at stake.
The engagement will take place at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium in Doha, Qatar, and will be directed by the Emirati referee Mohammed Abdulla Hassan Mohammed.
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The winner of this single match series will be located in Group E of the 2022 Qatar World Cup along with Spain, Germany and Japan.
The coach of Costa Rica, the Colombian Luis Fernando Suárez, He said at a press conference this Monday that he has already defined the star eleven and that he has thoroughly studied the rival, whom he describes as “dangerous” due to his style of play.
No pressure
“Our proposal is to have possession of the ball, to look for the spaces and harness the speed. We are aware that we have a lot to improve,” said Suarez.
The coach stated that the players know the responsibility what it means to represent the country and said that he sees them motivated and happy, eager to repay the support and trust that the Costa Rican fans have given them during the tie.
Costa Rica will have its stellar squad, in which the figure of French PSG goalkeeper Keylor Navas stands out, who is in search of his third World Cup.
“Thanks to all the life and death matches that we won in the tie, we got here. You have to take it with the same group union and the desire to reach the World Cup. It is a fairly united group, a team in which each one knows their role very well, which is very important, “said Navas.
The goalkeeper is part of a historic generation for Costa Rica that seeks to qualify for a World Cup for the third time in a row. He was also part of the team that lost the 2010 World Cup play-off to Uruguay.
In that generation that wants to win the third World Cup in a row, forward Joel Campbell, defenders Francisco Calvo and Oscar Duarte also stand out; and midfielders Celso Borges, Yeltsin Tejeda and Bryan Ruiz. For his part, the New Zealand coach, Danny Hay, has said that he trusts the qualities of his team and acknowledges that the match against Costa Rica will be “extremely difficult”.
“We are not going to underestimate Costa Rica. We know that he has great quality, but having said that, my team is young, but with great experience in fundamental areas. We know that it will be extremely difficult, but we are at a good level and we have to focus on what we do,” he declared.
There is last week after the 1-0 loss in a friendly with Peru. The great New Zealand figure is the attacker of the English Newcastle Chris Wood, who will be a key piece for the ocean team to fight to return to a World Cup after being absent from the last two editions.
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