Congratulations to Master Juca Kfouri for another great and blunt text about the disseminated gambling in society and football, with the complacency of so many, that can lead to cheating, important damage, as well as the risks of addiction and their serious consequences.
I wrote in my previous column that in modern football pressure marking in the opposing field is as decisive as the presence of an excellent centralized sock, shirt 10. Form and content are walking together.
The pressure marking is physically exhausting. Cruzeiro, who did this with enormous intensity and efficiency against Bahia, failed to repeat it against Bragantino. Brazilian players are not yet physical, mental and collectively prepared to act regularly in this way.
Pressure marking and compaction are now essential in football. They are associated with the space that a team needs and the space that should not be given to the opponent. The word space is quite repeated since my youth. Analysts and coaches love to say that a team won or lost because it had a lot or little space.
The space is always present, larger or smaller. If a team advances the marking in midfield and the defenders remain close to the large area, as is the usual in Brazilian football, many spaces will be left between the two sectors for the other team to receive the ball and counterattack.
In Corinthians’ victory against Sport, Memphis received the free ball numerous in that space and, with his talent, built countless goal plays. The Portuguese coach Pepa should continue his studies. Also, putting into practice theory is not easy. The best strategy is the one that has the most talent players and is well performed.
If a team marks more behind, with eight to nine players close to the area to reduce the spaces, the opponent will be more able to have the dominance of the ball in midfield and press, until he can get a way to reach the goal.
Palmeiras is one of the few compact Brazilian teams that alternates, even during a match, the type of marking and the game strategy. Abel Ferreira mixes obsession with tactical knowledge. However, I am not yet convinced of his new posture, to move Estêvão to the middle and midfielder Felipe Anderson to the tip.
The brilliant Stephen, who in July will go to Chelsea, from England, was called Messinho while working in the cruise base category. The story tells that Guardiola, when he was Barcelona coach, on the eve of a classic against Real Madrid, studied the game and called Messi, who concentrated at home, asking him to immediately to the Barcelona training field.
Guardiola told the ace that she wanted him, instead of playing from the right-wing-wide-ended, to work more through the center, closer to the goal, to receive the ball between the midfielders and the defenders. Messi shone intensely in the game and from there was born the greatest player in history after Pelé.
Without wanting to compare the two players, did Abel Ferreira think of Messi and Guardiola to move Stephen from the tip to the center? Divagar is necessary.
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