For Libertadores, Flamengo and Inter played a strategic, intense game, with a lot of marking, but with little creativity and technical quality. Flamengo dominated most of the game, however, as it has been usual, created few chances of goal. Jorginho, an excellent midfielder, who usually starts the offensive plays in the field with great passes, was further ahead, while Allan, who does not have this quality, started the throws.
After the Club World Cup, 40% of Flamengo’s goals were due to stopped balls. It is exaggeration. In the English championship there are 17%. In addition, Flamengo and all Brazilian clubs cross the balls of the intermediary, which makes it easier for the defender to cut. The main European teams use the rapid ball turns from side to side as well as triangulations on the sides until someone penetrates the defense to receive the ball and cross from the bottom line to their partner head facing the goal.
What happens to Inter, which had a big drop this season? The coach and strategy have not changed, but the quality of some players fell. Wesley, who surprised last year for acting much better than in Cruzeiro, returned to play as before, dull. Football has reasons that go beyond our knowledge and technical and tactical explanations.
Botafogo, at home, beat Ecuador’s LDU by 1-0. Ancelotti was present to see the players and his son Davide’s first work as a coach. Must have been satisfied. In the World Cup, the son will be a father’s assistant again.
In the many matches that Ancelotti saw for Brazil, it must have found what he already knew, that the selection has a great lack on the sides. Several players who play in Brazil have been summoned, such as Arana, from Atletico-MG, Alex Telles of Botafogo, Alex Sandro and Emerson Royal, from Flamengo. Everyone is good at their clubs, but weak for the national team. If Uruguayan Piquerez, from Palmeiras, were Brazilian, would be starting in the national team.
Palmeiras thrashed, in Lima, the weak university 4-0, with three goals at the beginning of the match. The attack duo formed by Vitor Roque and Flaco López, together since the start of the game for the first time, was the highlight of the match. After the first goal, the Peruvian team went to the attack, which greatly facilitated the two strikers, especially Vitor Roque, with their huge speed. It is still early for an assessment of the pair. The hasty are already euphoric.
Gradually, Brazilian teams have incorporated the important modern concepts in the way of playing, such as pressure marking throughout the field to quickly recover the ball, the compaction not to leave large spaces between the sectors, the intensity to attack and defend with many players, the ball with passing from the goalkeeper, the alternation between the short and longer game towards the goal and other details.
But none of this is sufficient if there is no individual talent and the ability, in a second fraction, to make correct decisions, with clarity, conciseness and accuracy.
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