2023-05-08 18:56:58
Yes, I copied a title from Carpinejar.
I always say that losing is part of the game, but losing to this São Paulo team is outside the curve, because, perhaps, it is the worst São Paulo in the last 30 years. It’s a team made up of short men, with two good defenders and nothing else, absolutely nothing. Gauchão teams are better and more organized. None of the players would start at Inter, except for Calleri, and currently midfielder Luan, who is a substitute.
Of course, Dorival knows this and set up a strike, with 5 players in the midfield line and Luciano isolated in front, the game and the ball belonged to Inter, but the team, and Mano, managed to lose a very easy game.
And we played bad games in the Copa do Brasil, Libertadores and now Brasileirão.
That’s where the trial factor comes in.
It is clear that Mano makes mistakes, to err is human, the problem is to insist on the mistake, and not even try something new.
I asked for Campanharo and De Pena in the middle, it was the only formation that Mano hadn’t tested yet, and the ball output got better, but that was until the SP pressed a little, and then it seems that fear hit, and Mano doesn’t come up with any solution .
It is also true that Igor played one of his worst games for Inter, making a lot of mistakes even before the penalty. I don’t see him in the starting line-up, and I think Bustos is much better, scoring and attacking, and especially when he leaves the ball.
Mano even tried, lowered Alan Patrick to drive the ball, but offered little alternative up front.
A lot because Luis Adriano is pure embarrassment when playing. When he receives the ball, he even shows some technique and quality, but football is much more than that, and he settled down with Arboleda in his neck, staying there, without moving, and, thus, without offering the team an option.
Mano makes a mistake and insists on the mistake of not changing. If he didn’t have Alemão, he could and should have used PH as a center forward, leaving Maurício. The line of 4 in attack, formed by PH, Maurício, Alan Patrick and Wanderson is able to break through blocks, using one of the ends and with the three closing in the middle. The recomposition could be done with the speed of PH and Wanderson, there would be three players in the area, plus an eventual player like De Pena or Campanharo.
It would be helped by the numbers, PH has 8 goals. Even if you don’t think it’s the best formation, without Alemão fighting and moving up front, it’s at least an attempt. Yesterday, with Lucca, the team played more, even if the evaluation is hampered by the fact of playing with 2×0 against.
Another situation is the defense, or the middle. We conceded a goal from a chubby guy from Nacional because there was no one to intercept him from the front, and yesterday the same thing, we conceded a goal from a short guy (no matter how good the kick was, and it was a great goal), he is only faced by Vitão, already in the area. Bustos marks the lateral and the pass through the middle, but there isn’t a player who stays in front of the area. And you can’t talk about De Pena, because who should have been there was Baralhas, as well as Campanharo against Nacional.
But that’s about positioning, and Mano spoke in the interview about strengthening the defense, the most obvious thing, not because we’ve conceded goals, but because our coach can’t play in 4231, and whoever he puts on the right, that’s where we always concede goals , and then he burns Johnny, Bustos, Igor, Campanharo and Baralhas, and even Matheus Dias, because the positioning of the 2 requires a compaction of the 3 and the 4, which does not exist in Mano’s team.
Incidentally, it is embarrassing in all games the Market saying where the Shuffles have to play.
So maybe it’s better that Mano tries to stop “proposing a game” when he’s attacked, and start doing what he knows how, arming the team with a line of 4 in the middle and two attackers, taking either Maurício or Alan Patrick, or alternating the two in the game, making the tripod that worked last year, with a defensive midfielder and two midfielders who score more, like Johnny and De Pena, these giving the first match and the defensive midfielder in the spare. This Mano showed that he knows how to do it, and he stopped doing it this year wanting to propose a game.
And you can do that against weaker teams that you know don’t want the ball, but you can’t score with the whole team positioned, the way you did against Nacional and São Paulo.
And management is to blame for this inconsistency. I have already written that, when they wanted a proactive game and hired coaches who played like that, they gave a team whose attackers were original defensive midfielders, and now, that they hired a coach who needs defensive robustness, they did not offer any original defensive midfielders, and the midfielders are all offensive in origin. It’s total schizophrenia.
I’ve already said that I much prefer not having midfielders and having to adapt a midfielder as a defensive midfielder, than not having attackers and improvising midfielders as wingers, but Mano didn’t even do that, because he never played with a defensive tripod in front of the defense. Mano never played with a midfielder posted in front of the area.
Mano’s team last year worked with Alemão playing a lot, and so it was against Nacional in the first 30 minutes, and the management wasn’t able to bring a striker either. By the way, the requests were very simple, a 5, a 9 and a two for Bustos’ reserve, and we still don’t have a 5 and a 9, although it has strengthened the team. I even brought Luis Adriano, but I knew the stakes were high and the risk too.
So Mano makes a mistake, as it often happens, but he is insisting too much on the mistake, to the point of becoming a mistake that the board is insisting on.
#MISTAKE #BRO #INSIST #MISTAKE