Mancini complains about the penalty and believes in the evolution of the team: “The greatness of Corinthians will return” | corinthians

The official said Lucas Piton’s touchball was “a shame.” Mancini was a bit more thoughtful, but also did not agree with the decision of referee Wagner do Nascimento Magalhães:

– Today, unfortunately, we are out of the Copa do Brasil, due to a refereeing error. It was an interpretive move, but the América-MG athlete got between the ball and our player. This dispute is a lot of interpretation. The referee was wrong to give the penalty. But that doesn’t justify it. Yes, we have to improve in the season. As we only have the Brazilian left, we have to focus on recovering the points, raising the table, showing a different game, of a team that thinks differently, there has to be an imposition on the field against all the teams, as there was against him. Inter, a powerful rival. Although there has been some evolution, the greatest evolution has to happen now.

The team’s focus is now exclusively on the Brazilian Championship, in which the team is ranked 11th with 24 points. The distance to the relegation zone is currently five points. The coach talks about ending the oscillation between games.

– Our real scenario is exactly that of oscillation, which worries me, but I know that, with the passage of time, we are decreasing 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 – he said.

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Without Otero and Fábio Santos, the coach opted for the line-ups of Mateus Vital and Lucas Piton in the starting eleven with the intention of moving as little as possible in the team that beat Inter 1-0. At 30 minutes, Cazares lost injured and opted for the forward. Everaldo, leaving Luan for last.

The delegation remains in the capital of Minas Gerais and then will go directly to Goiânia, where on Saturday they will face Atlético-GO, by the Brazilian, at 9:00 p.m. (from Brasilia), at the Pedro Ludovico Olympic Stadium.

– The Cazares exit and Everaldo entrance were exactly above the speed we wanted to have. Entry of Vital on the inside and Everaldo on the outside to speed up the game. The entry of the two midfielders in the intermission was what improved the team in the second stage, we had a slow and heavy initiation (with Xavier and Éderson), Cantillo and Gabriel gave the team liveliness, it was the moment when we played better in the 180 minutes, we got involved, we kept going and we had good opportunities. Davo left physically, he had not been playing, he played two games in three days, Léo Natel came in to give us new gas, we won 1-0 and we wanted to kill the game so as not to suffer in the end.

Mancini admitted that he did not see the Corinthians that he wants to see at his command in both games against America-MG. In his presentation, he stated that he would make the team “go back to being Corinthians.”

– We had difficulties in both games. In the first half of the first game and in the second of the second game we were superior, although today we have drawn. There was balance in the second half of the Arena and in the first half here in Minas América it was better. Our team with a very slow ball out gave America several quick transition outs, impacting the game. This greatness of Corinthians will return little by little, we are going through a difficult time because we were eliminated, but we will not bow our heads and say that everything is going wrong, the team has evolved.

– Corinthians must look like Corinthians, but they must also play good football. He did it on Saturday and not today. It improved a lot in the second stage, but much lower in the initial one, it bothers me a lot and makes us have to look for alternatives. The aforementioned imposition is what I have been asking for and I am sure it is a differential of a team of the greatness of Corinthians. It is a giant club that has to recover that imposition, be it physically, technically or tactically. That is what we are fighting for. I don’t like to see the team like this on the pitch, it bothers us and has attracted attention. Today was the psychological part of a team that had to recover after losing 1-0, this generates anxiety. I agree that the rate has to return, and it will return, this is not the face of Corinthians, we are seeking this rescue as soon as possible.

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– The return of Jô is a thoughtful and balanced return, before a stage that is not the one that debuted. I was not even here at Corinthians, but it is important to talk about it, the athlete anticipated his return and that generated a series of complications, not only physical, but also injuries. So, our head for this today is that Jô will return to the team from the moment he has a physically armed base to execute the requested.

– Today, unfortunately, we had the Cazares injury, we don’t even know when he will be out of the team, but we have other players who can deliver, maybe not with their efficiency, but with gains in other things, that’s football. Sometimes you lose one player and end up discovering another. We lost Jô and Boselli and discovered Davo. We had already discovered Mantuan in a different position. This is the coach’s fight, and today I have a team with athletes, some worn out by the sequence, others who are dying to enter, and in this mix we are trying to find the ideal team for each game until we find the ideal team and we have a successful sequence.

Is there support from the board?

– I feel supported, yes. We have a very faithful day to day at Corinthians, it is important to say so. In times of pandemic, many people do not have access to what is happening and our daily life is wonderful in every way. It is based on demands and compliments, loads that football offers, pressure that we all have. And the pressure is not only external, it is internal to each of us who live football and we know that it has to be that way. The administrative part takes care of everything that is his and I take care of the technical part.