The day after Christmas, all the English teams took to the field, as usual. Manchester City failed to win once again, drawing 1-1 with Everton. In the last 13 matches, City have won just one. Liverpool, leader with a great advantage in the championship, won again, 3-1 at Leicester.
Will Guardiola give up, throw in the towel and take a sabbatical? Or will he, ambitious, detail-oriented and responsible, do everything to recover the team?
In the meantime, everything is going well for Liverpool. Salah is more spectacular every day. Unlike the big left-footed wingers who play on the right and act wide to receive the ball and try to dribble the marker, Salah, on the right, likes to receive the ball in front to use his speed, his technique, his skill and his creative and efficient finishing. . The Egyptian Salah plays smiling, enjoying the match. He smiles when he scores a goal and everything goes right and keeps smiling when it goes wrong.
Liverpool is the team currently playing the best football in the world. Because he is quite compact, attacking and defending as a block, he doesn’t have a classic number 10, so beloved in Brazil. The three in midfield mark, build and advance, as if they were three midfielders and three number 10s. Other great teams in the world act in a similar way.
Brazilian teams only think about number 10, to play between midfield and attack, articulating all offensive plays. This type of player is still important in many situations, but, progressively, the biggest teams in world football prefer midfielders who play from one midfield to the other.
It is necessary to differentiate the striker of the past, striker, top scorer, shirt number 10, who formed a pair with another attacker and also returned to receive the ball and build plays, from the current midfielder, playmaker, shirt number 10, who plays in the middle -field and attackers.
Palmeiras, who have a great number 10, Raphael Veiga, signed Maurício, in the same position, who cost more than he was worth. He also brought Felipe Anderson, another number 10, who was moved to the left. The club is trying two more in the position, Matheus Pereira, from Cruzeiro, and Andreas Pereira, who is doing very well in England and has been called up for the Brazilian team.
On the other hand, the team does not have an excellent center forward. Paulinho, an excellent player, is not a number 9, a number 10 or a winger. Because he is fast, has a lot of technique and is a great finisher, he is ideal for playing in a partnership with another striker, as happened at Atlético-MG alongside Hulk.
São Paulo, which already had two great central attacking midfielders, Luciano and winger Lucas, who prefers to play in the middle, signed Oscar. He, Hulk, Bernard and Fred were Brazil’s four forwards in the 7-1. Zubeldía should have four forwards in São Paulo (Lucas, Oscar, Luciano and Calleri), in addition to having the good winger Ferreirinha. There will only be two left in midfield.
Brazilian football should rethink its concepts and stop rigidly compartmentalizing teams with the number 5, 8, 10 and 9 shirts. Only those who understand and are passionate about the numbers and positions of the past fail to see the obvious. The world and football have changed.
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