2023-06-26 20:11:10
Another game in which only the three points were important from the championship point of view.
However, about football, the game was very important.
First to show how bizarre Mano Menezes’ ideas are when he has to come up with ideas. Playing with 4 attackers, none of them with the slightest familiarity with the frame, and much less with the positioning of the 4 attackers, with three wingers, or who play on the flanks, cannot be considered an idea, but an activity that is done in toilet.
Mano destroyed the team, and almost destroyed players, leaving the frame with Rômulo and Johnny, and a mess in front of these two.
Mano proves more and more that he is a coach of a single formation, that he tests until he gets it right, and when he gets it right, if he changes, he doesn’t know what to do.
In addition to leaving 4 attackers without a frame, these attackers were rarely in the area, and even less often were they marked by a single defender. That is, even the positioning of the four attackers was regrettable, if there was any guidance on this.
Anyone who thought that Luiz Adriano could replace Alan Patrick, because a legend circulated that played like that in Turkey, yesterday had nothing to defend.
Incidentally, no defender of Luiz Adriano has arguments, when Jean Dias is more productive than him. And I’m not talking about the goal, but about the first half.
It is also curious how Jean Dias surpassed everyone in the hierarchy and became Inter’s set-piece hitter, without any predisposition for that. You can’t let Mano think.
In the second half, with the departure of the unproductive L Adriano, and the entry of another midfielder, more free to be in front, Inter started to threaten América and turned the scoreboard. Yes, with 3 steering wheels.
In the first half, América didn’t have the strength for anything, and Inter got rid of the ball until they took the goal. Detail, the ball hits the barrier, and PH watches the opponent enter the area. Inter need players with tactical awareness to defend too, and PH just watched.
From the maize of the first half, nothing can be saved.
The second half came with a modification in the middle, a better pass, but, above all, an organization in the attack, so that América had to score more, and not simply post the two lines of 5 of the first half. In that time, stand out for Wanderson, building the moves, and for Nico (despite the serious failure at the end of the game), who ventured into the vertical passes, breaking the opponent’s first line. Igor Gomes only had one successful attempt.
The tie came naturally, as América is a weak team that makes many fouls (the referee only pulled the card at the end of the second half, even with repeated fouls in the first), with a midfielder entering the area.
German, in a few minutes, scored the goal and ten times more than Luis Adriano in the season. As hard as he is going through, not meeting the football of last semester, Alemão has, at least, delivery on the field. The goal was manual, taking the front of the defender, waiting for the goalkeeper to fall and putting it on the opposite side.
We still managed to see Gabriel Barros, the renegade, show speed and momentum, which does not justify archiving.
Of all this, it is important to celebrate the three points, a comeback away from home that has not happened since 2014, and a certain tranquility to play the Libertadores decision with the rested players.
But here’s a giant alert, that our coach has crazy and absurd ideas, and is not afraid to put them into practice.
#THINKER