Viña is irritated by the substitution in Palmeiras and Luxemburg responds: “I am the coach!” | palms

The problem occurred shortly after the player’s substitution, at 25 in the second half. He was irritated at leaving the match, giving way to Diogo Barbosa.

According to TV Globo reporter Marco Aurélio Souza, Luxemburg was upset by the player’s irritation, approached him on the bench and said “I’m the coach.”

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After the game, the coach explained how the conversation between him and Matías Viña went to the bench and considered the episode as something normal.

– You have to clarify that, because he speaks one language, I speak another. Obviously he was upset, but the coach is me, I went to talk to him, which is part of that. He said it was good to play, but I said that the coach is me, I make the decision. I didn’t fight Viña – he said.

– I didn’t say anything more than I did. I told him that I am the coach, I made the decision and he was upset. And it’s normal for a player to be upset, I don’t see any problem. But the decision depends on me, it does not depend on him, because I am the coach of the team. If they said something different, just take my speech, read my lips and see that I said, “I am the coach and I am in charge.” At no time did I offend him in any other way – he added.

The left-back left when the game was tied 0-0. Even so, according to Luxembourg, the option of taking him out of the game happened because he came from an injury and the game was very “stagnant”.