Albert Capellas—CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Newly put in coach Albert Capellas is keen to completely implement the specified fashion of play for the Philippine males’s soccer crew forward of the final huge buildup for the Asean Mitsubishi Electrical Cup.
“I’m very optimistic, however I’m certain there will likely be ups and downs,” the Spanish-born coach mentioned in a press convention held on Friday at Studio 300 in Makati Metropolis, the place he was launched to the media for the primary time since his appointment final month.
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Capellas, employed after Belgian coach Tom Saintfiet left the crew to deal with Mali, desires to see the Philippine facet play a extra engaging strategy, which is to go for extra scoring probabilities as a substitute of taking part in defensive.
The crew slowly adopted that fashion in the course of the loss to Tajikistan within the third-place match of the Merdeka Cup in Malaysia, the place Capellas was available previous to his official appointment.
“We need to play extra from the again, to construct up the sport,” mentioned Capellas. “We need to keep away from lengthy balls with out sense, we need to have higher ball possession, we need to run extra, we need to create extra probabilities, we need to win the ball again as rapidly as attainable and we additionally need to lay offensive with a purpose to create extra probabilities.”
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He’ll get to check how the crew can rapidly adapt with the Philippines participating within the King’s Cup in Thailand.
The Filipino footballers face the host nation on Oct. 11, earlier than taking over both Syria or Tajikistan within the last or third-place match three days later.
One notable participant who was included within the squad is Gerrit Holtmann, the German Bundesliga striker who made his Philippine debut in 2022 on the Asian Cup Qualifiers in Mongolia.
“We’ve been speaking to Gerrit for fairly some time, making an attempt to get him again,” mentioned Philippine Soccer Federation director for senior nationwide groups Freddy Gonzalez. “It took a while to persuade him and it labored. We’re actually excited to have him again as a result of he’s a implausible participant.”
In the meantime, Kaya-Iloilo and Dynamic Herb Cebu endured extra struggles on the continental entrance with losses in Thursday’s AFC Champions League Two.
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Kaya fell to Australia’s Sydney FC, 4-1, at Rizal Memorial Stadium regardless of taking the lead within the first three minutes on Daizo Horikoshi’s purpose, whereas Cebu fell, 1-0, to Selangor in Malaysia. INQ
