Fabián Hormazábal: “The U is local everywhere”

U. of Chile

Universidad de Chile was very forceful and defeated the current champion Huachipato 4-0 in a day that was marked by a bomb warning that stopped the second half for more than an hour.

After the end of the match, the blue side Fabián Hormazábal He referred to this anomalous situation saying that “we are not used to this type of things, we try to remain focused.”

Regarding the development of the match, the full-back highlights that Gustavo Álvarez’s team changed things. “It’s something we were looking for, trying to give a little more variation, the rivals out there were taking the pace of the game, we tried to change it today and we got a nice result,” he stated.

Asked if the blues play better as outsiders than as hosts at the National Stadium. “That’s why we get better results on the road, but we always try to impose our game, on all the fields, we try to make the U’s game prevail at home or away,” he says.

Fabián Hormazábal and being a local in Concepción

The former O’Higgins was approached to ask him what he thought about leaving Santiago to face Deportes Iquique.

“We know that we will have the support of the people of the U who are very passionate, it will be full of blue fans and that we will be local. In the end you are local throughout Chile so it doesn’t matter,” he shot.

Towards the end, he referred to the bomb warning that caused the stadium to be evacuated and the second half to be delayed. “These are things that happen in a game, this time it favored us, so we are happy, we want to continue like this,” he concluded.