After Dorival Júnior said a thousand times that the Brazilian team was undergoing a process, the word became fashionable between clubs, coaches, fans and the press. It is a good argument to justify the defeats. Another old word in football that does not go out of fashion is attitude. In balanced matches, they say one team won because of attitude and the other lost for lack of attitude.
In football, often, without changing the way they play, teams earn and lose against opponents of the same level, by details, technicians, tactical, physical, emotional and also by contact, a fault of the referee, an expulsion, a diverted ball, a carelessness and so many other reasons. Like at the end of Woody Allen’s movie “Match Point”, the chain -set ball can fall anywhere.
The four semifinals of the European Champions League semifinals, two between Barcelona and Inter and two between PSG and Arsenal, were balanced and decided in the details. Barcelona is the team that most enchants the way you play and the stars it has, but it lacks a more quality defender, such as Brazilian Marquinhos, the national team and PSG.
Relativity does not diminish the importance of coaches. In addition to the excellent cast and regularity of the team, Palmeiras has a coach, Abel Ferreira, obsessive for the victory and with many technical and tactical knowledge. Flamengo delighted at the beginning of the season, but today is Palmeiras that is better.
Botafogo fans, instead of criticizing both coach Renato Paiva, should mourn the exits of Luiz Henrique, Almada and others. In addition, Botafogo exceeded expectations last year, and there would be no certainty that the team would maintain the enormous quality even if they had not lost any player.
Coaches have many dilemmas in their decisions. Only the ignorant have no doubt. Leonardo Jardim, Cruzeiro’s coach, has defined, at least for now, that there is no place to play together Kaio Jorge, Matheus Pereira and Gabigol. An alternative would be Matheus Pereira to act from the right to the center, as well as marking on the side, as Gerson does in Flamengo. The Ponta Wanderson or the shipowner on the Christian side would come out.
Dorival Júnior, when he has Garro’s return, will have to find out how to act without tips, which mark and attack by sides, how the coach likes. One option will be to play with three defenders, two steering wheels, Garro between the two and the duo of strikers, and two wings occupying the spaces on the sides, marking and support. Thus many European teams act.
The coaches are exaggeratedly dismissed in Brazil. Vasco dismissed Pragmatic and Prudente Carille, who was doing work in the expected according to the quality of the cast, and hired the bold and dreamer Fernando Diniz. You can’t predict what will happen.
The fans, the leaders and the sports press have an ambivalent relationship with the coaches. While fascinated in victories, as if they had the key to the secrets of the game, they become disappointed with few defeats, as if they were illusions. It is human duality. Brazilian football needs psychological help.
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