Abel Ferreira criticizes the grass and regrets the absences of the national teams at Palmeiras: “It’s not fair” | palms

In the coach’s opinion, due to the bad situation on the pitch, the team couldn’t have speed with the ball and could have lost players due to injury – Felipe Melo came out loaded after suffering a serious ankle sprain.

– Today one rival was Vasco and the second was the field of play. I hope I didn’t lose anyone else, let’s see if we didn’t, because the grass was in very bad shape. It was necessary to give four touches so that the ball was clean, we could not give speed. You have to move the ball fast to find the space like this against the team. Then he said that Vasco and the field were the opponents, he explained.

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For the next matches, Abel Ferreira will have several absences. In addition to injury problems, he will lose Gabriel Menino and Weverton to the Brazilian team, Viña to the Uruguay team and Gustavo Gómez to Paraguay.

The coach criticized the fact that he could not count on some of his main athletes at decisive moments of the season, such as on Wednesday, against Ceará, for the Brazil Cup.

– I think even Tite said that, how can the club pay so much and be without athletes. I don’t know who makes the decisions, I still need to know, but it’s difficult. We have ambitions, we fight for titles and we are without the best, it is not fair. The load is great, the fans want to win, the management wants to win, for that we have to have the team always level, competitive – he said.

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– We knew about their competence to defend, they lined up with a line of five and four more up front, they defended the widths well. Sá Pinto and I know each other very well. Your team reduces space and does not let us create.

ABOUT THE TEAM’S FIRST TIME

– We are all going to make mistakes, that’s part. But I’ll say it again: we had a great collective attitude, the defensive line was getting shorter, almost a sandwich in defense, a compact block to recover the ball. But I will return to the difficulty of circulation. We had a ball from Veiga and a cross from Viña. We didn’t have much space. We could move faster, but for the opponent to close the spaces, with the lines of five. Then in the second half we talked to the players, we adjusted the position, we had to hit the wings, we got on well. We had Ron isolated, a center that the goalkeeper saved, after the exchanges we had the penalty. Who enters, enters to win, they added a lot. It is the soul of a team. That is the way.

HAVE YOU EVER CHANGED?

– This team has soul and attitude. Andrey left the team well, positive. A team willing to help the coach and assimilate his ideas. When we talk about the learning process, it is like learning to read. No one was born reading, running. You have to be born, crawl, stagger, walk well and run. Learning to read is the same. The game process also requires that time. But I want to emphasize his willingness to help me, his open mind and his great soul. They played well on a very difficult field. I haven’t played on a field like this in a long time, against a well organized team. They are badly on the table and today they would give their lives to climb. They came with confidence after the South American, but our team had a serious and competent attitude, we have to congratulate them for this determination, determination and for playing well too.

HOW WAS THE INTERVAL TALK

– We have the opportunity to see images in the interval. We only correct the positioning. The cast has quality and talent. You have to continue with that discipline and that teamwork. Individuality appears within the collective. They are small positioning adjustments. Be more aggressive with the ball. You couldn’t play between the lines, that space between the two lines. It was difficult to play there, the opponent was fine and we needed a lot of touches to give us speed. We managed to do some, we had some adjustments, against a team that defended very well.

MEETING WITH SÁ PINTO

– Life has these destinies, we had so much time to face Portugal and we came to face each other here in Brazil, on the other side of the Atlantic. I already told you how grateful I am to you, we played together in my last year as an athlete. It was he, who coached the Under-19s, who gave me the opportunity to recover and play in the Under-19s again. I couldn’t, I had to stop, he invited me to be his assistant. That’s when it all started. This gratitude is public. He is a great coach, very well organized. But it takes time, without time it is more difficult to see the work.

– Felipe has been a great surprise for me, not only because of what has been happening, not only because of what has been happening here. They said it was old. It was superior in terms of delivery. In the game I saw against Atlético-MG, what I saw was a 37-year-old man running like a child. Tomorrow we will do the exams, I hope it is not serious. Luan, Gómez and our boy Felipe have been important in this tripod that supports our team, it is not by chance that they are supporting our team and there are some games without conceding goals.

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