A bye through the tournament’s group stage allowed LAFC players and coaches to take a full week off before getting 10 days to implement comprehensive training sessions.
The Leagues Cup knockout round begins Wednesday, giving the Los Angeles Football Club what could be its first and only taste of the inaugural competition between Major League Soccer and Liga MX clubs.An automatic pass through the tournament’s group stage after winning MLS Cup last year has set LAFC up for its first game in 2½ weeks.
Juarez is a young club relative to the Mexican giants, but the team enters with confidence following a solid start to the Liga MX season, taking wins over Club America and Toluca while drawing with Tigres prior to the start of Leagues Cup group play. From what LAFC coach Steve Cherundolo and his staff have seen, they expect a well-coached opponent with a high football IQ from players who can interchange into multiple positions.
The unrelenting physical and mental demands of a record-setting 33 games at this point of the year made Carlos Vela feel like, “you lose a little bit of what you are because it’s just again and again and again.” “When we press at a high level we are a really dangerous team and we will try to do that,” Vela said.
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