Mancini sees the idea of ​​buying cast and praises Mantuan: “Corinthians has a jewel” | corinthians

– The stimulus today is different, from a team that attacks more, plays at speed, tries to get the ball and occupy the spaces left by the rival. It happened in my initial game, in Curitiba, and again today. Very good in the first half, and had a crash in the second stage. When I make exchanges, the team gives light. This is natural, because the stimulus is different. If you’ve been playing with an organization and tactical form, and then a new team comes along and changes this game system, it’s natural for athletes to sit down, and it will take a little longer. There are nine days of work, the third game, many things are getting “good in the mouth” – said Vagner Mancini, who also completed:

– But the most important thing is that in the field things will adjust, I think, I am convinced, the athletes are buying the idea, but it is natural that we wait more and little by little the team is increasing in production.

The manager’s main bet for this match, attacking midfielder Gustavo Mantuan scored the first goal of the match and earned Mancini’s praise.

– I already knew Mantuan, when I faced Corinthians for Atlético-GO, Mantuan entered the game and almost spoiled the defensive system at that time. When I agreed with Corinthians, I was very attentive to him, a young man, a promise. Today he acted as a false 9 for being an athlete endowed with strength, speed and great technique. So it can act to either extreme, like a false 9 or also like a sock.

– I have no hesitation in saying, not only to accompany him for ten days, that he is a player who can help us and will help us a lot in the season. And I dare say that Corinthians has a jewel in its hands, and that if handled well it will undoubtedly pay off.

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Before beating Vasco, under Mancini, Corinthians beat Atlético-PR and were defeated 5-1 by Flamengo. The coach treated Sunday’s defeat as a “traffic accident.”

– We played two away games, beat two opponents in difficult matches and lost against Flamengo. I want to believe, with the sequence of games, that it was a road accident, not because of the quality of Flamengo, which we all know, but because of the lack of competitiveness that the game had. We have a sequence with Internacional, before America-MG, it is important to know where we are today. I was only talking about the change in the characteristics of the team, this also denotes a certain amount of time, but with the sequence of games I will be able to better analyze if it was really a traffic accident or if we have to improve, which I know we have in many aspects. but also not only in the tactical system so as not to start as we saw in some moments of the game, but also in the weakness that we showed in the last game.

With the victory in São Januário, Corinthians move away from the relegation zone of Brasileirão. With one game more than other teams, Timão is in tenth place.

The team takes the weekend off and returns to the field on Wednesday, when it faces América-MG, for the round of 16 of the Brazilian Cup. The next appointment at the Brasileirão is next Saturday, against Internacional. Both matches will be at Neo Química Arena.

Below are other excerpts from Vagner Mancini’s press conference:

– It is a situation that can happen, one more alternative, it does not mean that Corinthians always play without a center forward. Whenever you have a hard time putting together the cast, you turn to the pieces you have. Soccer is very fun and wide-ranging because it gives you the possibility to make changes, to enter players, to change the game system, to change characteristics … If, suddenly, Vasco expected Corinthians playing with a center forward There was a certain surprise, because Mantuan made a false 9, an athlete with a lot of explosion, speed, who has a technical game. He and Cazares were very uncomfortable in the first half and throughout the game in general. It is an alternative that can be used, yes.

– On the emotional side of the team, we had two days, just over 72 hours since the last game, which was difficult to swallow until today. And the way I use it is always face to face, football has to have a series of demands and praise is also part. On Sundays they were much more accused, but always looking into the eyes, telling the truth. In addition to correcting, it generates great empathy and a commitment to improve. We made sure that, on Monday, we had a longer conversation, so that everyone understood what happened and quickly took that away from us.

– Everaldo was really decisive in two games and at the end of the game. This shows that, in addition to the team not giving up, the characteristic of the player is exactly to play forward. This concept that is being modified within the team has been successful. When we are a little more used to it, the team will win with that.

Team with the face of a coach?

– I think that little by little we are putting our training methodology, which is a little different from what the athletes were doing and maybe the team will fall in the second half. Because the stimuli are different, the concept of the game is different, this makes the player need an adaptation, and I am seeing the effort of all of them so that we can achieve it quickly.

– I would be frivolous if I spoke of professionals who passed through the club, especially since we have friends with the two who preceded me and I know the work that was done. The most important thing at this point is to tell the truth, that we are exchanging the stimuli of the team. Therefore, more time is needed, which, unfortunately, we do not have. Now we will have seven days and we are going to intensify the stimulus a little. It does not mean that the team is physically ill, but yes, not used to the speed stimulus. This makes the athlete feel more. When the methodology is changed, there is a time for the athlete to adapt. I hope athletes will quickly understand what we are being asked to improve, not only on the field, in tactical and physical terms, but also in the quality of football.

– We really adopted this system, a line three ahead of Xavier with two attackers inside. And it had an effect in the first half, but when the team contracted it dropped to 4-4-2, it was a variation to give freedom to the five players to get ahead, but when we retired we had to make the two lines of four. Sometimes in a 4-4-2 and sometimes in a 4-4-1-1, because Vasco sometimes pushes a shuttlecock off the ball with three and other times with two. When there were two of them, Cazares got behind the wheel. By starting in three, Cazares behaved alongside Mantuan so that we would not suffer the infiltrations of the two defenders abroad. The tactical system is obvious that each coach has the ones they like the most, but I think it is important to look at the characteristics of your player, your squad, to know how much stronger we are playing in one system or another, which on the field gives you responses, in training and in play, athletes sometimes feel more comfortable in one situation or another. We had variations today and I like that my teams have that, with three times in front of both sides, sometimes four with a steering wheel in front, so these are variations that we are gradually introducing so that we always demonstrate some surprise in the games.

– The idea is that we start to keep the team, Mantuan will play tomorrow in the U-20 team, we will not have it against América-MG in seven days, but it is important that at some point you make exchanges because we have a large squad and I know it. that the team is feeling different stimuli than before, so it ends up showing some fragility throughout the game, the athlete starts to get tired, but possibly he has Jô back against America, so let’s study. As for the participation of the attackers, unlike what it was today, we cannot in any way throw excessive weight on Boselli and Jô. Today we also had a midfielder, Cazares played a great game, until he got tired in the second half, but he has a very interesting vision and the strategy put in place for this game today was exactly that we would face a double defense that I thought would would put. a speed player, who was also a coach and had infiltrations. And in one of those he scored the goal. There was another thing that I thought was a penalty in Mantuan, I haven’t seen it on TV yet. Then the athlete understood the movement and the team went up in production.

– About Marllon, it’s a bet from what I saw during the games. Today was a great match for Marllon with Gil, the defensive system behaved well even with the arrival of Fábio Santos. I know the importance of Bruno Méndez in the team, in the squad, and I had the option to join one or the other, and the coach will always have that option. My choice was based on what I saw on a day-to-day basis, I think I was right, the defending duo did very well in the air game, but also from below, marking a difficult athlete that is Ribamar, who is a strong player, has game. by air, they did very well.