For the coach, technical disparity is minimal and Brazilian football is intense and dynamic when the lawns are good and there is time to rest and prepare the team properly
The debate on the technical difference between South American and European teams, fierce with the good performance of Brazilian and Argentine clubs against NO rivals, was approached by a news conference on Wednesday, the eve of the second duel of Palmeiras in the competition against Al-Ahly at 1 pm at Metlife Stadium in New Jersey. For the coach, technical disparity is minimal and Brazilian football is intense and dynamic when the lawns are good and there is time to rest and prepare the team properly. The Palmeirense coach said that his Portuguese colleagues find Brazilian football slow. It is not, according to him, when the conditions are ideal. “We had three days of complete recovery no one is in Europe with the feeling that Brazilian football is slow, which is what happens in Brazil,” continued the Portuguese, before mentioning that Palmeiras and Fluminense were better than Porto and Borussia Dortmund, in the first round of the group stage of the World Cup.
“I have not seen any Brazilian team that had no intensity in the games,” he said. “If they give us working conditions, if the teams rest and the lawns are good, the games become dynamic. That image goes down the drain. The difference is minimal, let’s compete. There are no easy games.” For him, it is sorry for the argument of European team athletes who complain of tiredness for playing the World Cup a month after the end of the European season. “The physical question is all a lie because when we play the World Cup (Intercontinental) we are going with over 70 games. That’s excuse.”
Abel reinforced the thesis that Brasileirão is one of the most competitive championships in the world and indicated that if it makes changes to the team that starts the game against Al-Ahly, will be few. “I do not repeat the lineups very much because it has strategic nuances that have to do with the changes of players. It is the function of the coach. Often exchanging a player thinking of the opponent and what it is to enhance our players’ characteristics of the characteristics of our opponents,” he explained.
*With information from Estadão Content
