2023-08-21 16:29:58
It was not yet this time that the Coudet team added three points in the Brasileirão, even though it was a home game.
We played with almost the entire reserve team, and what you can see is a pattern of play that did not exist before, and a more active right side, concentrating several attacks on that side.
The difficulty of scoring goals persists, and I’ll deal with that.
Fortaleza, aware of its limitations, opted for a game of long balls for the speed of the wingers, and it only worked twice, once in a well-defended ball by Rochet, and another in the half-arranged penalty, counting on Marinho’s staging after a ball dispute. I would struggle to score the penalty.
After that, Fortaleza withdrew even more, and the game became a single team in the opposing field.
Then we reviewed the difficulty for Inter to score goals in relegated teams, a difficulty that is not only Inter’s, but is accentuated in our team.
Much because the few chances created were not put into effect, and this is one of the constant complaints of the Colorados, which is the inefficiency of the attackers and the team as a whole within the area.
This is because it is not acceptable for Luiz Adriano, alone, to head in the middle of the goal, weak, a perfect cross. It’s not a ball that misses, just as, later, with the adverse score, he delivers, again alone, almost in the small area, a weak shot, in the middle of the goal. This lack of effectiveness that has not given us the victory in the Brasileirão, since, like this, Igor Gomes isolated a ball, Aranguiz shot over it, Luiz Adriano again lost without hitting the goal, and Bruno Henrique tried to pass it inside the area . This ineffectiveness in front of the goal takes its toll.
Although I don’t like to analyze a game with a tight team, as the illusion is one of total superiority, without the favorable score, this happened and Inter lacked the correct finish, largely because our center forward and the other striker, PH, are going through a drought of goals and good performances, and I won’t even say exceptional, but reasonable, as PH entered a cycle of impediments that he cannot avoid.
Of note, Bruno Henrique took over the game, with the frame and organization of the team, although he does not have the strength to play against booms. This time, the team kicked little, perhaps due to Maurício’s position on the left.
The “yet not” in the title also serves as a reference to my concern with the Brasileirão table. Although the very bad sequence without victories leaves us in a worrying position, Inter has a team to be in a better place, and has been playing with a reserve team, with some starters joining at the end of the games. Different from other years in which the position did not match the football presented, but, in any case, we cannot pretend that the championship does not exist.
I remember Fortaleza last year, last placed at the turn of the shift, and recovered positions to the South American after being eliminated in Libertadores.
As the idea is to be champion of the Libertadores, it is not possible to think about recovering positions only after the title, so that Coudet will have to adjust the defensive left side, and it will not be with an improvised De Pena, when he wants to use most of the reserve team .
So too, up front, Lucca needs to be tested, even alongside Luiz Adriano, as the kid has already shown he has a star and knows how to play on the left side of the pitch.
I thought it took Coudet a long time to put Alan Patrick on the team, as he is the best weapon against booms, along with Wanderson, players who have good results in the 1v1.
Other than that, a bad arbitration that started badly by not calling an obvious foul on PH, then was convicted in a dubious penalty, and failed to score two clear penalties in favor of Inter, and, in Aranguiz, it became scandalous. My point, always, is that in the Brasileirão, we also have to win the arbitration.
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