Despite the great scientific evolution of football, it still prevails in Brazil and around the world a significant advantage for teams playing at home against opponents of close or similar technical qualities. Why?
In the middle of the week, by the Champions League, Barcelona and PSG lost their second game away from home, but secured classification for the semifinals because of the significant victories they had in the first match.
At home, Borussia Dortmund, carried by their exuberant fans, had a superb performance in the 3-1 win over Barcelona. He played much more than he knows, which occurs several times in home teams. Borussia made a pressure marking with incredible intensity, without letting Barcelona’s talented midfield would be with the ball and provide the exceptional trio of strikers chances of scoring goals.
In the past, it was said a lot that the best defense was the attack. Today, even more important than having an excellent connection sock, shirt 10, is quickly recovering the ball in the opposing field.
Real Madrid lost both games to Arsenal, which was not expected. Football has many logic that intersects. Everything is uncertain. Of course, there are always technical and tactical factors.
I repeat, Real Madrid hired two exceptional strikers (Bellingham and Mbappé), who are among the best players in the world, but the team no longer has the balance, the collective game and the defensive efficiency they had when playing a trio in midfield Casemiro, Modrić and Kroos and another in the attack with Vini, Rodrygo and Benzema (a scorer and racker).
In the first four rounds of Brasileirão, 40 matches, only six teams won away from home. Cruzeiro, with several expensive players hired in the reserve, made, inflamed by the fans, an excellent match in the 3-0 win against Bahia. It looked like Borussia against Barcelona, marking by pressure with enormous intensity, without letting the opponent get the ball and exchange passes.
In the fourth round of Brasileirão, only Palmeiras, Fluminense and Bragantino won away from home. Palmeiras played very well against Inter.
Colombian midfielder Richard Ríos marks with great intensity and still arrives in the area with talent, as in the goal of the goal of Palmeiras. In Colombia’s selection he does this better, because the team plays with a trio in midfield, a centralized midfielder and two midfielders who act from one intermediate to another (Richard Ríos and Arias).
Santos, at home, even with Neymar’s departure in the middle of the first, won from Atletico-MG by 2 x 0, which is superior. The Rooster has not yet won in Brasileirão. Four games is little, but the teams have already started showing their technical path that we will see at the end of the competition. We will still have surprises.
In addition to the fans and other factors, the most important reason for much more victories for host teams is the psychological, the positive emotional pressure to win, unlike visitors, who feel inhibited by fans and the opposing environment. The old cliché that the fan is the twelfth player remains true.
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