translated from Spanish: Thiago Silva and duel with Chile: “That group knows how to play this type of match”

Thiago Silva, defender of the Brazilian national team, had positive concepts on Wednesday for the ‘Roja’, rival of the ‘Sctatch’ this day July 2 for the quarterfinals of the Copa America 2021.De entrance, the English Chelsea player advanced a difficult duel with the pupils of Martín Lasarte, despite having finished Chile penultimate in Group A of the continental competition.” It is a team with a lot of quality, it was not in vain that they conquered two Copa America in a row (2015 and 2016). That group knows how to play this type of games regardless of the moment they are going through,” said the defender about the ‘Team of All’, who today traveled to the land of samba. In addition, Silva does not believe that the ‘verdeamarelha’ is the great favorite to win Group B and the irregular gait of the ‘Roja’, both in the first phase of this tournament and in the Qualifiers to Qatar, where it is seventh.” That doesn’t mean much. It will be a very difficult and very complicated confrontation. The most important thing is that we are super prepared to face them and to try to neutralize their offensive plays,” he said. On the other hand, the former PSG valued the presence of Alexis Sanchez in this final phase of the Copa America. The ‘Wonder Boy’ missed the first round to a muscle injury.” In 2014 it was already a reference and today it continues to be so. He’s a player of a high level. We don’t know what the real situation of his form is, but I hope he can be on the field because we like to face the great players,” he said. It was always very difficult to face him,” the 36-year-old said of the tocopillano.

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