Erik Lira stands up for Larcamón in Cruz Azul in the face of rumors of his dismissal

Erik Lira is aware that the slump in which he finds himself mired Blue Cross the coach’s job is at risk Nicolás Larcamónwhich is why he came out to show his face and ensure that the entire cement plant He is to death with the strategist and that in the remaining games they will demonstrate it.

Lira responded in this way to the questions that indicate that Larcamón has a threat of losing his job if they are not able to come out successful in this Saturday’s game against América in the 205th edition of the history of the young classic in Mexican soccer.

The midfielder of the light blue and the Mexican national team is aware that the thread breaks at the thinnestbut at the same time he denied that the coach had run out of arguments in the locker room and that the players wanted to do whatever they wanted on the field.

“To death with Larcamón because from day one we have been with him and Cruz Azul is so big that they always look for ways to destabilize us and that speaks of the demand and the first to know it are us, that the demand and that the noise outside is bigger than anything else, so that makes us close ranks, to be focused on what is ours,” Lira said in the interview with the North American network.

Erik Lira also rejected that Cruz Azul has the favorite label in the classic against América: “No, the favorite, you put that; We are going to face the game with the seriousness that is due, although we know that with America They are always very nice matches because it is always from you to you and it is I hit, you hit me and we love that, we love that the matches are like that and we hope for a very nice match on Saturday,” he explained.

He also said that: “Maybe they don’t come at the best time, but hey, that’s how it is, it’s America and they’re going to want to go out with everything on Saturday.”

The comeback with LAFC

The captain of Cruz Azul highlighted that the duel against LAFC next Tuesday will be complicated with a three-goal disadvantage, but not something impossible to achieve: “It is complicated, yes, but I think we have enough top players; we are quite prepared for those moments and now is where we have to prove it.”

Lira said that “we are not in a bad moment, but in a bad moment we were in second place, we are in the quarterfinals and now we are facing a complicated moment, yes, but I am convinced that we can turn around, although we are all 100% and that depends only on us.”

He knows that it was not the best of his games when he played as a center back on the left, “but I am another warrior, wherever the coach tells me I can, wherever I am, from wherever it is my turn, I am going to give my best effort and I am going to try to help the team,” he concluded.

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