The astronomical values of parliamentary amendments are an affront to the Brazilian people. Even more serious, the amendments have no work plan or transparency.
Football continues in Europe. Manchester City once again lost. He played with the defenders on the midfield line and thus conceded a goal, with the ball thrown onto the defenders’ backs, in the 2-1 defeat to Aston Villa. Once again, City did not press to win the ball back quickly nor did they have control of the game, as was usual. Once again, Guardiola scratched his head throughout the game, lost, not knowing what to do.
Repeated defeats diminish confidence and create a negative cycle that continues for an indefinite period of time. Furthermore, if there is a bad phase for the players, there must also be a bad phase for the coaches, who start to behave incorrectly, even though one of them is Guardiola. I notice that there is great fear, embarrassment, in criticizing the City coach. He is exceptional, but he is not a God.
I don’t understand why Guardiola insists so much on playing Grealish from the beginning, because even in the team’s best moments, he limits himself to shaking his body and playing to the side or crossing into the area. He rarely scores a goal or builds a great scoring play. Young Rico Lewis plays in one position each game. He’s promising, but he hasn’t yet shown what it takes to be a starter.
Barcelona, another European great, lost the match and the lead to Atlético de Madrid. Just like City, Barcelona plays with defenders in midfield and this way Atlético’s winning goal came out 2-1, after throwing a ball behind the defenders’ backs.
I prefer an intermediate solution, with the defenders positioned between the midfield line and the penalty area. This is how Flamengo has played under the command of Filipe Luís. In Brazil, almost all teams play with defenders glued to the penalty area even when the midfield advances, leaving many spaces between the two sectors.
The other Manchester team, United, continues to lose. The famous Portuguese coach Rubens Amorim, who had done a great job at Sporting, has created more problems than solutions. In the last game, the coach placed central midfielder Bruno Fernandez. The team’s star, on the left, with the role of marking the full-back. In the second half, he climbed the steering wheel. Can’t understand.
I repeat, although there are several players in the Brazilian national team who have excelled in major European teams, our national team lacks more talented players on the flanks and in the center forward and midfield positions. My comparison is not with the great stars of the past in these positions, but with current players from the main teams. Almost all of Argentina’s starting lineup is featured in Europe. Uruguayan Valverde is one of Real Madrid’s greats, the player that Brazil’s midfield is missing, as he scores, organizes and finishes very well. Time passes and in a year and a half we will have a new World Cup. We need to be in a hurry to improve the selection.
As one of the beautiful songs from the film “Fados”, directed by Carlos Saura, says, time doesn’t pass. We are the ones who passed. We need to make this passage with lightness and pleasure. Merry Christmas everyone.
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