Analysis: Corinthians squad accumulates new frustration and is left with the “surplus” Brasileirão | corinthians

Another frustration of a team that is not bad on paper, but that in practice collects disappointments and individual and collective performance well below expectations. Soccer details difficult to predict, but capable of big problems.

The main example can be Luan, a great signing of the season, with a background to be an absolute starter, and shot in the decisive game only in the final minutes. Live in an extremely low technical phase. Today, he is a Corinthians reserve and only entered the game after Everaldo, Gabriel, Cantillo and Léo Natel.

With Cazares’s woundsee more details below), Vagner Mancini’s immediate choice was Everaldo, although he lost an articulator, to Luan’s detriment.

There is a natural frustration with the work of Tiago Nunes after nine months, the numbers play against the month of Dyego Coelho as interim, and it is possible to question Mancini’s options in last night’s game, but the disappointment with the squad is also undeniable . . It was possible to deliver more.

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Corinthians started the game in a kind of 4-2-3-1, with Mateus Vital falling down the left and Matheus Davo again positioned as a center forward. Cazares assumed the role of creation in the middle, playing opposite Éderson and Xavier and alongside Ramiro.

The problem is that the strategies outlined for the initial stage did not work and they were gradually undermined over the minutes, even with Timão with 55% of ball possession:

• Approval and domain errors remain (61 incomplete passes against 188 certain);
• Were only three presentations do Corinthians;
• América-MG began to take advantage of the spaces it had left to easily reach the Cássio area (there were ten presentations in 45 minutes);
• Corinthians’ long balls didn’t work either (36 attempts and only 14 hits);
• Cazares, the most creative man on the squad, was injured in the 32nd minute;
• Everaldo’s entrance from the left with Mateus Vital placed in the middle did not work;
• Davo had little participation in the game (only five passes exchanged).

The first half did not work, the scoreboard did not open and there were only 45 minutes left for the team to try to reverse the result against an organized America. Silly mistakes, like pass-through and even simple domains, or non-vertical actions, waste time.

– The strategy put in place was to keep the same team that played a great game, perhaps the best, against Internacional, they saw no reason to move, they stayed fully. When I saw that in the first half there was no evolution between the sectors, the back was too long with the ball on the foot, the midfielders were not divided and our team was slow. Against a well adjusted team that plays at speed, you suffer a lot. An unpacking began that did not allow us good opportunities – said Mancini.

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Mancini made changes in the final stage: he drew midfielders Xavier and Éderson for Gabriel and Cantillo innings. A change of posture at the beginning generated more proximity to the goal. Matheus Davo participated in a good double by Fagner and Ramiro and could have done it with his head.

In a more intense Corinthians, minutes later, Davo suffered a penalty. Converted by Fagner. In an inspired sequence, the winger avoided Ademir’s goal, after Everaldo’s bad retreat and Cássio’s bad exit from the goal. It was the team’s “second goal” in what looked like a match destined to end on penalties..

Ball possession jumped from 55 to 57% and submissions went from three to ten. The number of incomplete passes also decreased and the number of determined passes increased: 58 x 198. Ultimately, Corinthians improved in the final stage and it seemed that they would lead the decision to penalties.

Behold, the bad individual / team phase that extends into the season and insists on walking for the team has made a new victim: Lucas Piton.

On a bad night, the left-back struggled to score and was unable to assist in the attack as usual. He ended with the misfortune of a penalty behind his back, touching the ball with his arm. For Central do Whistle, the offense was correctly marked.

Along the same lines as the low profile, Cantillo, fired in the final stage, could have done more. The Colombian started well, hitting 29 passes in one go. He no longer did it because he also lives in a still unstable moment and today he is an option on the bench.

A Corinthians with Luan and Cantillo at their best, delivering their maximum, would undoubtedly have more ease and fewer spaces in the midfield. Shirt 7 itself suffered the rush of the team in the final minutes. In the image (see below), it is possible to see it without options before a strong marking.

With Brasileirão as a “leftover” until the end of the season, Corinthians’ goal is not only to find a tactical standard, but also to maintain a performance standard and find a performance balance.

– The real scenario is exactly that of oscillation, which worries me, but I know that, as time passes, we diminish it game by game. The Corinthians showed evolution in many things, but not in others. And we will have to work. Now, curiously, we will have time to work. This will play in favor of a team that wants to recover in the season, that had some ambitions and they were escaping little by little – added the coach.