Palmeiras advanced to the quarterfinals of the Copa Libertadores after play at Allianz Parque, this Thursday (1). However, coach Abel Ferreira was not satisfied with the performance of the team. “It can’t happen,” he said.
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“Although it was a point in favor of winning from 4 to 0, unconsciously, our players relaxed, and it cannot happen. In the first half it was only passes back and sideways. At the break said that to them, that we were not offensive, making possession of intent and often losing possession hasty.”
Our players relaxed.
The coach promoted a series of changes in the team, especially with the intention of saving athletes for the next confrontations. “We played a hardworking game and our players know we can do more and better. The truth is that the responsible is me, who exchanged the team was me, who made the choices was me. But it is also true that in Libertadores, in recent years, things have been very well done,” he explained.
With this Thursday’s draw, Palmeiras reached seven matches without winning at Allianz Parque in games valid for the Libertadores knockout. The last victory came in 2022, when Verdon beat Cerro Porteño in the last 16 of that year. Despite the sequence, Abel prefers to look at the present, valuing Alviverde’s unbeaten campaign in the current edition.
“We haven’t lost in this competition yet. To see how hard it is to arrive, the current champion has been eliminated in the eighth. So I prefer to cling to positive things, I’m positive here and now. No one wants to know the past, people want to know here and now. I prefer to get the good things we’re doing,” he said.
