If PSG wins the world club title, which is likely, things will be in the right place. The French team, which had wounded Inter Milan 5-0 in the Champions League final, won the current competition athletic and Real Madrid 4-0.
With the exception of Fluminense, which was better than expected, the performances and results of Brazilians were according to what was planned. The best teams in Brazil are at the level of Europe’s median teams, and these, from time to time, gain from the main European teams. Botafogo’s victories over PSG, Fluminense about Inter Milan and Flamengo about Chelsea were not extraordinary, historical, as they love to say.
The great teams in Europe have financial conditions and professional structures higher than the Brazilian teams. With this, they hire the best players in South America and other continents. They are also better administered. Just as the various Brazilian governments do not solve the country’s serious problems, such as crime, public insecurity, lack of basic sanitation and dozens of other situations, football leaders do not solve the chronic calendar problems, lawns, arbitration and many others.
PSG’s 4-0 defeat over Real Madrid occurred because of the superiority of the French team, the poor tactical formation made by coach Xabi Alonso and the flattened faults of the Real defenders.
Xabi Alonso weakened the midfield with the lineup of another attacker and left the corridors on the sides to advance the excellent sides of the PSG. The PSG midfielder trio took over the ball and the game. The three mark, build and attack. If the Portuguese Vitinha had been formed in Brazil, they would certainly have put it on the right end, because it is skilled, fast and easily out of marking.
Brazilian football is still hostage to the two in line steering wheels, 5 and 8 shirts, the centralized offensive midfielder, shirt 10, which steps in the area, as they like to say, and the fixed center forward, shirt 9.
In the final, if Chelsea no longer fills the midfield, as it works with only two in the sector, the excellent Enzo Fernández and Caicedo, will have many problems. Palmer is a great midfielder, from the intermediate to the goal. It is not a midfielder.
In a decisive game, there may be numerous details, unpredictable and emotional factors that change the story of a match. Anxiety, even certain limits, is beneficial to the athlete as it increases concentration and physical strength. However, if it is excessive, it inhibits decisions and movement. The body is the shadow of the soul.
The emotional preparation of athletes, in all sports, needs to be more valued, especially in men’s soccer, influenced by macho thoughts that nervousness on the field is a mark of the defeated.
As they are not transmitted by statistics, emotions are ignored, as if they did not exist. Statistics are important, but there is an exaggerated appreciation, even when they are expressionless. Statistics are a refuge of those who do not know.
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