2023-06-09 19:42:21
“It was a cold night with a full moon…”
This is how the first page of the classic O Continente begins, part of the trilogy “O tempo e o vento” by the great gaucho writer Érico Veríssimo, father of another great writer and member of our white-washed legion: Luiz Fernando Veríssimo.
“It was a cold night with a full moon…” This is how a great work begins and ends in a melancholy way, a night that had everything to be a victory for Colorada in Terras Charruas against Nacional do Uruguay.
Everything was going well on Wednesday until we lost clear chances to score and took the now classic goal from the air in our area. As usual, an opposing player the size of a stump to tie a mare manages to climb up without any of our defenders bothering him (Are they badly trained? No time on the ball?) and ends our joy.
Endgame in Montevideo
The only undefeated in Libertadores! Congratulations! The team drew three and won two out of five matches!
Well, the three draws in three games is equivalent to having won one and lost the other two games… That’s not bugle, it’s basic mathematics. The consideration for a draw is almost the same as for a defeat when you need to add points.
When will managers and coaching staff stop facing tournament phases and consecutive points championships where, obviously, what counts is accumulating points as if we were in 1979? In that glorious era of the team that never lost, in addition to having players like Falcão, a draw was worth one point and a victory two points.
Back then, a draw was literally halfway to victory. Today a draw is 30% of the result of a win. In 2016, when the team was relegated, we drew 10 games and lost a dreadful 17 games (thanks Roth).
But that has changed recently, it’s true… it’s only been like this since 1995. There is still time to adjust the mindset. Instead of calling the team to the boom, try to trap the opponent in their own field with intelligence and mobility in the attack. Didn’t you learn anything from Iarley in 2006? Imagining if it was the current thought of “closing the house” that was in force, what the outcome in the game against Barcelona would be like, is painful.
People use as a figure of speech, without being too wrong, physical vigor as a synonym for good sexual performance. Our team has to start with “cock pointing to the sky” in every game (as Profexô would say) and not those Maria Moles that transform in the second half. For that they need to have intelligence, the will to win and good training. You have to do like Captain Rodrigo: in the small ones hitting the board and in the big ones with the butcher. I see this as the only way to have a competitive team until the end of the year… without high expectations, more to save finances and keep some reason to drink beer while the Colorado players parade all their skill.
Agree Colorado!
PS: is it very difficult to bring Ortiz (father) back? Since they repatriated the traitor’s physical trainer, what would it cost to bring back the great Ortiz to tame the aim of those foot-de-pants who manage to miss more clear chances to score than one misses the liquid that falls on him?
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