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Cruzeiro’s first defeat under the command of Ney Franco came on Saturday night, 3-1 against CSA, in Alagoas, for the tenth round of Series B of the Brazilian Championship. The team was easily hit on the balls from above and did not have as much facility to create scoring chances.
Although Cruzeiro conceded all three goals in aerial balls, the coach preferred not to blame him, despite regretting the first two goals, which were born from dead balls. The team had not yet leaked that way into the competition, and failed precisely at a moment of dominance (at least territorial) of the game.
– About the defeat, we will not tell anyone. The rival deserved the result, because of the competition they had, especially in the first two goals, in dead balls, at the moment when our team sent a message that they were playing over the rival, but without creating many scoring opportunities.
Ney Franco, Cruzeiro coach – Photo: Gustavo Aleixo / Cruzeiro
Among the three goals conceded from above, Ney Franco highlighted the first, where he made a mistake that he considered “basic” in football.
“There was a bit of competition from the rival, but, especially in the first goal, the attacker’s pull at the near post to scratch is basic football, which must be set. Unfortunately, those two dead ball goals have changed the game a lot. ”
– Now it’s up to us to get something positive out of the game to reinforce and it shows that we have to make adjustments in these details of the set pieces, so that, in the next game, we are improving and, today, we know that in balanced games this The detail of the dead ball can define.
Ney Franco was also questioned at the press conference about the fact that the Cruzeiro team is unable to commit and always has a request for patience addressed to the fans, which has been happening since 2019. The coach understands the charges and, himself , admits: The cast knows they need to show more.
– The Cruzeiro fans showed, in the moments when they won the games, they generated great expectations, due to the optimism we have, due to the tradition we have within national competitions.
“But we are going to have to play a lot more than we are playing. The players know it “
An unusual situation was seen before the CSA. Given the two goals scored in the first half, Ney Franco made two substitutions in a few minutes, giving up Jadsom and Arthur Caíke to replace Thiago and Daniel Guedes, respectively. The coach said that the idea of giving up the wheel to put a center forward was with the intention of giving more strength to the attack, in the face of adversity on the scoreboard.
– The first substitution was made in addition to the result. (…) As we got the second goal very early, if I’m not wrong at 28 or 29 minutes, I did what, normally, is not done in football. You give more time, but I wanted to put more offensive strength so that we could create more scoring situations. After the entry of Thiago, in the first half, we created two clear scoring opportunities, but unfortunately the goal did not come out.
Rafael Luiz launched the attack with the entry of Daniel Guedes – Photo: Gustavo Aleixo / Cruzeiro
Arthur Caíke’s replacement was more surprising, mainly due to the fact that Daniel Guedes had not played since September last year. With his entrance, Rafael Luiz went ahead for the attack. According to Ney, Arthur felt a muscle problem and Daniel entered due to a lack of speed options on the bench.
– The other change, Arthur Caíke, still in the first half, felt a muscle injury. (…) I worked a lot with an experience that Rafael had in the last game, of playing a little ahead, and I already took the opportunity to put Daniel Guedes, who is a winger, on the field, putting Rafael forward, playing. as an attacker. It was a physical substitution and since we don’t have any players on the bench with speed characteristics, I opted to make a substitution with Rafael in a way that he had already played.
