Canada head coach Jesse Marsch has disclosed that he’s targeting a win against Switzerland in their final World Cup Group B match at BC Place in Vancouver to secure the top spot in the group and keep his team playing on home soil.
Canada currently sits at the top of Group B with 4 points. A win or a draw against Switzerland will guarantee they finish first, allowing them to remain in Vancouver for their round of 32 knockout match on July 2.
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Speaking ahead of the clash against the Swiss, Marsch has cautioned his team against playing conservatively.
“Staying here in Vancouver is definitely our number one goal,” Marsch told a news conference on Tuesday.
“When I took the job, as soon as the format of the tournament, as soon as I found that out, I said, okay, we have a clear objective, we want to win the group. Two years ago, everybody thought I was crazy, right? That prospect at the time wouldn’t be possible, but this is where I expected us to be.
“When we drew Switzerland, we thought, okay, let’s position ourselves to make sure that we are competing for our goal to stay in Vancouver in that last match, and so we’re here, and we’re going to be ready for it.”
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“I feel like the worst way to get the draw is to play for a draw. I think you have to go into the match and play for a win, and then in the later stages of the match you can use your substitutes and you can use tactics to now manage what you need out of the match.
“So manage the result is how I say it, so I think that we were going to start this match, going into it with the mentality and the tactics to win.”
