Following the elimination of Barcelona from the Champions League, the famous Italian coach Fabio Capello criticized the Catalan team for continuing to play in the attack on Inter Milan even with the advantage of a goal. Inter tied at the last minute and won in an extension by 4 x 3.
Fabio Capello ignores the beautiful game and the desire that to get better it is necessary to give a show. To paraphrase the poet Ferreira Gullar, art and beauty in football only exist because the result is not enough.
Over the weekend, Real Madrid won 2-0 in the first 15 minutes, Barcelona reacted, scored four goals, continued in the attack and Real scored one more, in Barcelona’s 4-3 victory. Barcelona is practically the Spanish champion, with another exceptional performance of his two midfielders (from Jong and Pedri) and his two strikers (Raphinha and Lamine Yamal).
On Monday (12), the CBF announced the hiring of Carlo Ancelotti, who will be in Rio de Janeiro on the 26th to announce the list of players who will face Ecuador and Paraguay. Just seeing, the suspicious miner would say.
Probably Ancelotti will have the same tactical questions in Real Madrid after the arrival of the great stars Mbappé and Bellingham. Before both, Real played with a trio in the midfield formed by Casemiro, Modric and Kroos and another trio in the attack with Vinicius Junior, Rodrygo and Benzema. With the changes, the attack became more explosive, spectacular, but the team became more unbalanced, with the most unprotected defense and the midfield with less dominance of the ball and the game.
In the selection, especially if he has Neymar, the coach can climb the offensive quartet (Neymar, Raphinha, Vini and Rodrygo) and another duo in midfield, or a trio in attack and another trio in midfield. Brazil with four in front and two in midfield took a ball from Argentina.
To play with four strikers it is essential that the two sides players come back to mark and form a quartet in protecting the four defenders. Dorival Junior in the national team and Ancelotti at Real Madrid had great difficulties.
Ancelotti is an excellent and great victor coach. Not all excellent are victorious and not all victories are excellent, at least in a short time. Ancelotti is not an innovative, revolutionary coach. Their teams do not use pressure marking in routine nor play with advanced quarterbacks, as Guardiola and Barcelona coach Hansi Flick do.
Ancelotti stands out a lot for his balance, the right choices, the command of a group and the use of different and correct strategies according to the moment and the opponent. Its teams alternate the rapid transition of the ball with the short change of defense passes to the attack. In the real, it uses the counterattacks a lot to take advantage of the speed of Vinicius Junior and Mbappé.
I hope Ancelotti, in an attempt to please and honor the history of Brazilian football, do not say the buzzword that Brazilian football needs to return to the origins to recover the prestige. The world and football have changed.
The national team needs to play modern, organized, efficient and charming football.
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