Luxa complains about the expulsion of Zé Rafael, but admits that the tie between Palmeiras and Sport was fair | palms

At a press conference, Luxa stated that he would not give up the responsibility for the tie to the referee, but complained mainly about the expulsion of Zé Rafael in the second half.

– I am not going to transfer the judge, but he had two big mistakes. One that her goalkeeper, from the beginning, bought time. I was talking to the fourth official. He said he didn’t realize it, but if he didn’t, he would be in another game. And the expulsion of Zé Rafael was to compensate, I have no doubt. It is not because he has a yellow card and misses a second yellow card. The foul was not due to a yellow card. It was unnecessary and it was wrong …

– This has hurt us. I had to open the team a little more, Sport had a backlash, they had the virtue of scoring the goal. We must continue, it is part of the game. It was an atypical round for everyone – said the coach.

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On the other hand, Vanderlei Luxemburg admitted that Palmeiras did not play so efficiently as to deserve the victory. Even so, in the coach’s opinion, the team had opportunities to kill the game.

– Our team has scored goals in every game. What happens today hardly happens to our defense, scoring two goals. It’s a solid defense. We scored two goals, we weren’t that efficient. It is part of the soccer game. We are all in the same boat. We did not play a convincing match to deserve the victory by convincing. I think the draw was fair despite some moves we had to kill the game, he said.

Palmeiras now focuses on the return of the Libertadores da América games. On Wednesday, away from home, Verdão faces Bolívar. For Brasileirão, the next game will be on Sunday 20, at 4:00 p.m., against Grêmio, in Porto Alegre.

See other excerpts from Vanderlei Luxembourg’s interview:

– We fell behind and we were playing well, with control of the game. It was a quick transition, they made it 1 to 0. We were calm and calm to score goals, we kept touching the ball. We did 2 to 1. We reached the second half with Ramires, who had taken a yellow card, he was dangerous. I kept the team structure with Danilo, to distribute the ball from behind. He managed to get it right. And Veron for speed. We had a chance to kill the game in the first and second half.

– He is an important player for us. He and Luiz Adriano are the team’s top scorers, as well as positive leadership. They are players that we have in attack, with different characteristics. Luiz Adriano more stuck, goes out to make table, and Willian a little faster. There are two distinct characteristics, two that score goals. We’ve done it.

Does not win at Allianz in the Brasileirão

– Yes. Our house, right? Let’s say … We tried, we tried. Today is the game. It was something that happened a lot at home. The absence of the crowd, there is no crowd playing upwards, so there is a game that is played, but without the emotion of a stadium that has to be with the fans. Not just for Palmeiras, for everyone. So much so that I believe that in the world the protagonists could not win when they returned from the pandemic. We will continue working. We have a very good stadium, with a different pitch, but we can play football with quality. Unfortunately, we did not win three games here in the Brazilian Championship.

About Felipe Melo and Luiz Adriano

– Patrick and Gustavo were left out because they passed the information from the medical and physiological department that they were at the limit, close to having an injury. I think they repeated eight games in a row playing all the time. This brings a lot of overhead. They were close to injury. We took the two of them and Luiz Adriano, who were in the same situation as them. So much so that in the game against Bahia Luiz Adriano himself was already very overloaded, at Corinthians he felt that he had no injury, only a pain.

– Luiz Adriano travels. I brought Felipe because he was out for two months, now he has left the transition and is going to train for the games. I brought him to relive the atmosphere of the game, because he has his presence, he is in the locker room, on the bench, participating, getting involved with the game, so it was very important, but he does not go to Bolivia, because we are going to train. during the week for the sequel. They told him that he would come to that game and that if he needed it he was an experienced player to enter, without any problem. Taking risks, I could tell. He is not going to Bolivia, he is going to train all week, he has a training match to train on Wednesday.