“You can’t compliment.” This is an expression that I remembered by disappointing with football presented by Brazilian clubs in the third round, the ultimate, from the group of the Club World Cup (Supermundial), played in the US.
In the previous text to this on the blog, titled “Fantastic Four”, I showed myself excited about the performance hitherto Flamengo, Botafogo (two wins each), Palmeiras and Fluminense (a draw followed by a victory each).
The expectation for the following quartet games was the best possible.
In Pasadena, Botafogo would face an Atletico Madrid who had taken 4-0 from PSG, to whom the Lone Star team had defeated 1-0.
But even with maximum force, the stove was much lower than the Spanish team. He attacked very little and deservedly took a goal near the end. Result: lost the game and the group’s lead to PSG, and was bad for the round of 16. I explain below why.
Palmeiras would have the Inter Miami before them. Which has Messi (supercrow, but already veteran), Suárez (ace, but already a veteran), Busquets (of great career but already veteran) and a handful of mediocre players.
In Miami Gardens, Abel Ferreira changed the team he had easily won Al Ahly (2-0), climbing Marcos Rocha, Lucas Evangelista and Flaco López, and it didn’t work out. Messi and Suárez (who scored a great goal) left, and the Florida team had two advantage on the scoreboard.
Without inspiration or technique, and at risk of losing the place to Porto and being eliminated if defeated, Alviverde sought the draw at the base of the muffle, with substitutes Paulinho and Maurício.
The 2-2 made the team from São Paulo escape an indigestible cross with PSG, the current European champion, winner of the Botafogo group, who, this reason for “getting bad”, will do eliminatory duel with Palmeiras, which has much more team than the hardworking but limited Inter Miami.
In Orlando, he was expected to be classified Flamengo-which was the field with the first position of the group guaranteed-an easy triumph, the third in the World Cup, and a convincing performance in front of the eliminated Los Angeles FC (two losses).
Filipe Luís spared half a team, and who played was owed. It was not a bad acting of Red-Black, so much so that it hit the goalkeeper Lloris four times, but these opportunities only masked the absence of joint and competitiveness of the mystan, and exposing the lack of aim-Trave is wrong finishing.
La FC marked close to the end, in its only right kick, and Flamengo found the draw shortly thereafter in the individual play by Wallace Yan, 20, two goals in two games, the boy being the only good news for the largest crowd in Brazil, which certainly was not satisfied with what he saw overall.
The returns of Gerson, Léo Pereira, Pulgar, Ayrton Lucas, Wesley and Plata, all starting 3-1 in Chelsea, are hope for the return of productive and effective football, essential to survive Bayern Munich, the opponent in the round of 16.
In Miami Gardens, where Palmeiras stumbled, Fluminense, who fought for the group’s first place and simultaneously against the elimination, had the favoritism against Mamelodi from South Africa.
I found 0-0 very worrying, due to the lack of offensive power of Tricolor (only six submissions, zero certain) and because the rival’s dominion was clear, who forced goalkeeper Fabio to work. In the end, it was suffered, and Flu must thank John of God very much for following alive in the supermundial. Next Game: Inter Milan, Indigestion Parade. If he had won the group, the opponent would be Mexico’s Monterrey.
Football has this, the ability to turn a scenario of “open sky” into another “hazy, gray sky” in a very short time. And vice versa.
That the drop in income may have a positive effect on each member of the quartet, the rescue of football that made me qualify it fantastic.
I shelved compliments, I can certainly nail that in a few days this quartet will be undone. At most, three brasucas will continue in the dispute. At least one. (More than the Argentines: Boca and River, dull, have already given “Adiós” to the US.)
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