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THE Fluminense avoided defeat in extra time, but 2-2 with Ceará inside Maracanã (watch the best moments in the video above) it was still a painful stumbling block. And even losing Iago with a minute of play is no excuse. With a streak of five unbeaten matches and after stopping the leader Atlético-MG, The Tricolor arrived full, but it was far from repeating the intensity and quality it had on Wednesday in Mineirão.
If to surprise his rival, Odair Hellmann opted for a game of speed and rapid transition, against Ceará Fluminense changed its characteristic again. With the return of Nenê and Fred, the team slowed down to become more technical. And at first, it seemed like it would work. There were 12 minutes of tricolor blitz: two submissions, three clear chances and a goal, from Luiz Henrique. And eight more minutes of controlled play.
Fluminense withdrew too much until suffering the goal of the equalizer of Ceará – Photo: André Durão / ge
But, from the age of 20, Ceará began to find spaces in the tricolor defense and to scare. Then, Fluminense fell into their own trap that they had made against Atlético-MG: they tried to be reactive, only without bits of speed. The result was that the team stopped attacking and saw the pressure go to the opponent’s side until the goal came out, sadly for Hudson on the dead ball.
Scout – Fluminense x Ceará
| Question | Fluminense | Ceara |
| Ball possession | 47% | 53% |
| Shooting | 5 | 14 |
| Scoring possibilities | 4 | 4 |
| Passes to the right | 461 | 324 |
| Wrong passes | 79 | 90 |
| Disarmament | 18 | 3. 4 |
| Fouls | 17 | sixteen |
| Impediments | two | two |
Only then did Fluminense attack again and had another chance with Luiz Henrique, at the end of the first half. But the withdrawal had already cost a team that urgently needed an “antidote to withdrawal” after a goal.. Odair guarantees that he never gave the order to withdraw to the team, and Nenê himself, moments before the Ceará draw, when he received a ball on the side and saw that he had no option to pass, made a gesture for the players to come out from behind .
Nenê was “pistol” with the team’s defensive posture in the 1st half – Photo: André Durão / ge
In the second half, Odair took the opportunity to change positions and launch the team on the attack. First, with Caio Paulista, then with Marcos Paulo, Ganso and Felippe Cardoso. But Ceará continued better and closer to the second goal, which happened at 32 minutes. Defeat seemed certain until Fred, who had done nothing in the game to justify his presence on the pitch at the time, gave Danilo Barcelos a great assist to avoid further damage in overtime.
The left-back, who scored a goal and an assist, was one of the few who was saved. Like Luiz Henrique, who oozes personality and is more and more headline. Speaking of the forward, who was one of those infected and cured of Covid-19, there are others who left the team because of the disease, but who have already stayed on the bench after recovering. Odair needs to climb the best, and it’s time for Luccas Claro and Calegari to return to the team. Digão was sanctioned for the third yellow card and Igor Julião was the worst in the field.
Odair admitted the poor performance of the team at a press conference – Photo: André Durão / ge
After the draw, Fluminense fell one place in the table, but remains in the Brazilian G-6 with 26 points. The tricolor players won on Sunday and Monday off and will be re-presented on Tuesday at CT Carlos Castilho. With a week off to train after a long time, Odair will have five days to prepare the team for the “six-point match” against Santos, fifth place, next Sunday at 4:00 p.m. (Brasilia time), in Maracanã .
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