As expected, it was very easy to win from Chile 3-0. The Brazilian team, with four strikers, was intense, pressed and created numerous chances of goal. However, as it has been usual in recent years under the command of several coaches, the team has been very hurried, eager to reach the goal. Luiz Henrique and Paquetá, who entered later, were easier due to the tiredness of the opponent.
To play with just two in the midfield against strong selections, it is essential that the two players on the sides work like socks and as tips, which attack and defend, forming a quartet along with the two midfielders in protecting the four defenders. Vinicius Junior, who did not play against Chile, has no habit of retreating and scoring.
Against strong opponents, Carlo Ancelotti intends to form a trio of midfielders, a more centralized to start offensive moves and one on each side, that marks, builds and advances? Acting this way is neither new nor modern. The Brazilian champion teams of the world in 1958, 1962 and 1970 had a trio in midfield and another in the attack. At the best moments of Real Madrid under Ancelotti’s recent command, the team played this way, especially when they had Casemiro, Kroos and Modric.
The Argentine team, the current world champion, usually changes the tactical scheme, but rarely stops playing with a trio in midfield, and Messi ahead of the three and one more player along the side, Almada, who replaces Di María, returns to score and starts the plays. Argentina greatly fills the midfield and leaves only a fixed striker in front. The team exchanges many passes and arrives with many midfielders to attack, as in Brazil’s 4-1 rout.
Ancelotti has already stated that the Brazilian team will not only have one strategy and will depend on the opponent. He had taken! I hope he won’t be fooled by the performances and victories about Paraguay and Chile. In the last World Cups, Brazil, widely praised in the friendly and group phases of the world, playing with many strikers and a void in midfield, was eliminated before Germany, Belgium and Croatia. It is the future of an illusion.
Weirdness
The strange Sampaoli returned to Atletico-MG. They say he didn’t even give the club employees a good morning. He must have followed his master, Loco Bielsa, who was criticized for having the same behavior in the Uruguayan selection.
In the field, Sampaoli impressed a lot at the beginning of his career, as his teams played very intensely and with great pressure to recover the ball. He followed Bielsa’s footsteps. It was a big news. Today, almost every big team seek to play this way. The coaches learned from Guardiola, when he was a Barcelona coach, Cruyff’s disciple, who drank from the source of Rinus Michels, coach of the 1974 Dutch national team that revolutionized football.
Today, Sampaoli is a very irregular coach, with bad and great moments. I imagine that one of the reasons for his hiring by Atletico-MG is the hope that he, with his doids, to make a major transformation in the team to face Cruzeiro on the 11th, for the Brazilian Cup, even with the disadvantage of two goals.
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