Once the press conference prior to the eighth final duel that faces Monterrey and Borussia Dortmund (3.00, Dazn), Dazn) is completed, talks relaxed with the Spanish press displaced to the Club World Cup. “What we are living is pretty, we were a team that nobody had and passed in a group in which the Inter Milan and River were, in addition to Urawa,” says Torrent as he apologizes in case someone bothers him to chat with a special envoy in Catalan. The coach that and in Bayern became independent of Guardiola to lead the New York City (2019). It is now an autonomous of the coaches market in America, except for a journey in the Galatasaray (2022). Flamengo (2020), San Luis (2024-25) and now Monterrey.
Torrent, recruited as a substitute for the dismissed Martín Demichelis has debuted in this World Cup with Rayados. and River (0-0) and a forceful victory against Urawa (4-0) have allowed their team to remain as the E (Concacaf) that remains in the competition. With little time to prepare the appointment, Torrent has moved away from the fundamentalism of possession to build a team capable of being flexible to dominate or retreat. “The boys are adapting better than expected by their quality. Some have competed to the highest level, even the Mexicans and Colombians we have, have football education.”
Sergio Canales admits the Monterrey fur change according to the opponent or the circumstances of the game that have been given in the three games: the best teams are those that are prepared for any type of matches. Against Inter we knew that we had to score and before the Dortmund it can be something similar, “predicates the half -pointed tip, responsible for assembling the offensive game of Monterrey.
In that match with Inter Milan, Rayados put ahead on the scoreboard with a header from Sergio Ramos after a corner kick engulfed by Óliver Torres. “We have to do many things well, including driving the ball stopped, offensive and defensively. They mark many goals like this and take a palm of stature,” Torrent warns. That he also launches a hard and direct message to his squad: “We have to compete as a team, defend all, the one who does not defend him in the 15th or 20th minute because he harms the collective. I only know a couple of players who won games alone. One of them was Messi and also had aid of his teammates to create the spaces where he developed better.”
Torrent is funny to be told that he surprised that after Ramos’s goal that his team did not defend himself with the ball than with the spaces. “It’s funny when they say ‘they got back.’ No, they put you back. If they attack you with eight players you can’t, you put the long sides …”
The Catalan coach is also sensitive to considering that Dortmund is the most weak European rival of those who remain in the competition. “Here it happens as in Spain when talking about Mexican football, you don’t know well. You have to know what Dortmund is in Germany, this year it has not been among the best in the Bundesliga, but two years ago it played the Champions League final. The German teams are always very intense.”
Torrent also seems to be clear that European clubs have already finished the adaptation period to schedules and competition. “The other day I read some statements of McCallister in which I said that if all is normal, the rest does not give us to win the Europeans. The feeling is that European teams are better over the days, but all sets have weaknesses.”
The Dortmund, under the direction of Jürgen Klopp was one of the precursors of the paradigm that now marks the step: high pressure and rapid transitions. In this World Cup it has been found that the model has jumped the puddle. “Football is global. Where is there less quality generally? In defense, because you squeeze there. That is why the defenses that get the ball like Cubarsí are more and more.
