Faced with a bad performance, Felipão sees a draw as “normal” and reaffirms Cruzeiro’s goal: “Don’t fall down” | cruise

The words of Felipão, at the press conference after the 1-1 draw with Figueirense, were also accompanied by criticism for the loss of six points in the FIFA process, which made the club start the tournament with a negative score, sunk in the lantern.

– I will not fight with the fans, they can feed any situation. I do not. We are six games away here, we draw three, we win three. Imagine if we had lost all three games? With all these points, we are in position 15, without them we would be in 19. I will develop the project, with the players, until we reach the first goal. Second objective I will not speak to them, nor to you, because we have not reached the objective.

“If I had dreamed, I would have paid FIFA, I would have scored points. We will work on the first goal, which is not to fall in Serie C. Then we will look forward”

– I already said it several times: the Cruzeiro project is for next year. This year it has to sink. We have five or six teams at our command. If we had the blessed six points, they understood that they didn’t need to play, because they would have six points. People are seeing that it is not as easy as they imagined. What we are working on is continuing with our first objective. I am not thinking about the second goal, because I am not free from the first.

The draw with Figueirense saw Cruzeiro reach eight games undefeated in Serie B, but five with draws. There are 25 points earned. Five in front of the Z-4 ​​and 12 behind the G-4.

Felipão criticized the position of the Cruzeiro players in the Figueirense goal. Following him, everything said and trained for the game was not fulfilled in the play. For him, the result, from what the team produced, can be considered normal.

– We have to remember what we train, the positions, we took a goal that was our corner ball and, poorly positioned, we worked on it and defined it in the conference. In the sense of creation, we had few shots on goal, we did not have situations that we could say that we created, we wasted, we experienced opportunities. We had very few opportunities. So few chances that the tie, in the end, was a normal result for what we did today.

“We can’t win if we don’t create a little more”

For Felipão, the Cruzeiro team is missing more. The coach pointed out that the difficulty of generating scoring opportunities was one of the factors of the tie.

– I think there was a little more creation in the middle, working the ball more, not having such a situation that we needed the result.

“We need, but we have to be calmer, rotate the ball more, participation of the standing team”

According to the Cruzeirense coach, having gone behind the scoreboard made victory in Mineirão very difficult.

– A little different from what we imagined, we came back with difficulties, wanting to get out of the ground, generating greater anxiety. This cannot happen. It was one of our mistakes. Go back again, a goal that you never imagine taking, when the ball is on your foot, there is no tactical foul, there is no positioning. It turns out that the opponent arrives closed, makes it difficult, there has to be a great power of reaction. I’m glad I did, they drew, but couldn’t. We will see in two, three games, the possibility of our team, because the possibilities that we are creating are not the best. We can’t win if we don’t create a little more.