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For Mano Menezes, his expulsion at the end of the Bahia game against Goiás, which ended in a 1-1 draw, had a clear reason: a kind of retroactive sanction for the behavior he had on the last day, in the match against Fluminense , when he called the referee of the duel a “vagabond”.
Mano was sent off when the game ended and, according to him, for no apparent reason. Before that, the match referee, Rodrigo Carvalhaes de Miranda, had already sent off his assistant, Sidnei Lobo, as well as forwards Elber and Rossi. [confira o momento em que Mano é expulso no vídeo abaixo].
Mano Menezes, Bahian coach, receives the red after the final whistle
– I think they threw me out in the last game. Of course, I was kicked out of the previous game. Because I was sent off after a match that we had just drawn and I was happy with the behavior of the team. I couldn’t have said anything to get expelled. But the four referees, from the start of the game, always had a provocative attitude in the situation. He sent Sidnei off and stared at me, waiting for my reaction, to call the referee. I didn’t like it, because I knew that today things would be much more rigorous – he said.
– Yesterday I saw Flamengo’s match against Bragantino. All the time, talking about the coaches, about my attitude. There is a lot of ex-referee talking and little coach talking to the defense coach. Soccer must have a balance of strength – he said.
Mano took as an example the expulsion of Elber, who, in his opinion, suffered a foul when he threw the counterattack. The striker was sent off after complaining to the referee about something that could not be caught [confira a expulsão no vídeo abaixo].
On the street! Elber is expelled and Bahia has one less, at 33 from 2
– Because it seems that the problem of Brazilian referees passes only through football coaches. Someone is always chosen for Christ. Especially when someone publicly assumes the mistake. I think we can improve the football environment as a whole, but the things that happened here today cannot happen. On the one hand, we have one type of interpretation and, on the other, we have another type of interpretation. Elber’s offer, for example, is an example of this. Elber was making a counterattack, he is ahead of the Goiás player, there is no way that Elber has not suffered that foul. And then the referee does not mark the fault and is still there, in the player’s reaction, and presents a red card. So there are a lot of things that happened here that need to be analyzed to determine the quality of the game that everyone wants. And the coaches want it too – he said.
Mano Menezes during the match between Goiás and Bahia – Photo: Felipe Santana / EC Bahia
The performance of the referees left the tricolor delegation in absentia, so much so that even President Guilherme Bellintani used the microphone to complain. Before, however, he made an assessment of the performance of the tricolor team.
– I think we played a game, in the first half, below what we need to get out of this difficult phase. We did a apathetic first part, without the struggle that the group has already shown. We return even more listless and with an enormous degree of unconcern. But this match, despite the inconsistency, showed the group’s fighting capacity, which is perhaps the way we have to get the team back. For me, one thing is positive: it is only with the struggle, which we have not had until then, that we will be able to turn things around. The team had to get the goal, keep one less, to show its technical superiority – he said.
Regarding the arbitration, the tricolor president recalled that the referee Rodrigo Carvalhaes de Miranda had already whistled the Bahia match against São Paulo and had criticized him harshly.
– Apart from these shortcomings [da equipe], there is an absurd technical deficiency in Brazilian arbitration. I do not want to be irresponsible and demonstrate only in the heat of the game, but what happened today is very serious. This man who called the game today is not in a position to be a professional referee in Brazil. I don’t want that for series B, C and D. It is the second game that broadcasts in the Brazilian Championship and the second for Bahia. My first question is: why someone who is whistling only the second game in the Brazilian, and both are against us? – He said.
– In order not to seem like a losing game, the absolute lack of control of the game showed the terrible level it has, bringing a disorderly vision to Brazilian football, due to arbitration – added the coach.
Bellintani said he requested a meeting with the arbitration committee to ask for explanations.
– What I want is not a defense of my club, simply. I want to understand what the criteria are at all times, including whether to use the VAR or not, interpretation of what is or is not a hand. There are many things that are obscure and that are not intentional, to hide the incompetence of the Brazilian arbitration. We will try to understand why the Brazilian arbitration is making so many mistakes, even after the adoption of the VAR – he said.
Without being able to count on Mano and his assistant in the technical area, in addition to Elber and Rossi, Bahia receives Atlético-MG on Monday, in Pituaçu.
