Ney Franco regrets losing the point and says that Cruzeiro needs “more than flashes” | cruise

“We paid dearly in the last game, we played practically the entire game with the entire team well organized on the field, with a solid defensive system, going on the attack and leaving our team behind very well protected.”

– And, at the end of the game, with a minute to go with a very distant lateral foul, we launched the attack because it has that characteristic, because you play at Cruzeiro, you want to have three points and precisely in this last play our team was badly positioned on the pitch, we lost a very long ball, we lost the first ball, we lost the rebound and they rejoiced on the counterattack, the only moment when our team was defenseless, defenseless. So today we pay dearly for a detail of the game. This detail that, precisely in the last play of the game, we placed ourselves on the field with our team unprotected and poorly positioned on the field.

Despite having achieved three consecutive victories in the first series B rounds, Cruzeiro had no sequence after the start of the competition. The team, whose main objective is to return to the elite of Brazilian football, is far from accessing, with only 11 points added, remembering that the club started Serie B with 6 points less due to a FIFA sanction. The technician admitted that the equipment needs more than flashes.

“I think we had some glimpses from that match (match against Ponte Preta) at times in the match (against Cuiabá), but we need more than sparkles at Cruzeiro. We really need to define a solid play,” regardless of whether it’s at home or away. home, regardless of the opponent, and we will have to look for that solidity “

The coach chose to use the five substitutions available in the game. Everything from the middle to the front. Roberson, Rafael Luiz, Marcelo Moreno, Caio Rosa and Ariel Cabral entered. According to Ney Franco, all the exchanges were aimed at giving offensive power to the team, which performs poorly up front.

– All the substitutions we made in today’s game, specifically, they were all to gain more offensive strength, to be able to play with more players close to the Cuiabá area and also a lot on the physical plane, right ?! The first two substitutions had this detail, both from Régis and Maurício, we felt that the performance was already falling in the physical part, so I took the player with the midfield characteristic and put another player open, I put another attacker inside too , and Roberson, who has the characteristic of playing as a midfielder.

– And the other substitutions, there came a time when Henrique felt the physical part, we made the substitution and then, so that we could gain strength on the right side of the field, I took Daniel out, I pushed Rafael so that we could have a player. More relaxed on the right wing, and Sassá also, at the end of the game, at 28 minutes, felt the physical part, and we put in an attacking player. But, I don’t think the articulating sock was a problem. Also because Roberson played making this connecting sock. So, the substitutions were intended for offensive power.

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– We need to have this consistency. We need regularity, we need to get to a point in the championship to make a sequence of six, seven games in a row scoring points. Today we regret the loss of three points and due to the circumstances that it was, as we lost those three points, we could be there regretting a point if we came out of here with a draw. When you work in a big team like Cruzeiro you can’t afford to put the team on the field for a draw. We have an urge to score points, but we understand that in today’s game, due to the degree of difficulty, we could have finished this game with one point and practically made the second consecutive game with a point. At some point we were even superior to the rival and in the end we were able to lift that ball in the area. We are looking for this regularity, and we need it, now we have six rounds to finish the first round, the next home game, mobilize the group, we will all be licking the wound, all frustrated, but leaving tomorrow when you return to work, raise your head , charge us, charge the athletes and seek this regularity as quickly as possible because with each round that passes it does not arrive and you have to be calm to adjust the equipment and have the competition inside the house that we had in front of the black bridge, and to do our command of field that is our main objective now, it is useless to talk about the game against the West, against paraná, against youth, we have to take the game against Sampaio now Run indoors and play at the same level that we play against the black bridge, we mark and slow down this recovery and I am sure that we will find the moment in the championship and we will have this winning streak, command points.

– Actually, this game was hotly contested in the midfield sector. Both on our side, Fábio and João, goalkeepers, practically did not participate in the game. At times we even had some advantage in ball possession, rotating the ball back and forth, but we couldn’t penetrate the defense there with Luiz Gustavo inside, two midfielders scoring well for their team, especially after Patrick entered. Romário with his left side closing the defense line well, so we tried to enter through the side that they blocked well. So that this alternative of having one more player can enter, in the first substitution I put Moreno inside, I opened Sassá on one side and Caike on the other and I put Rafael to be a player rested inside to reach the attack. We had a few moments where this game idea worked, but we didn’t create scoring chances either. In fact, all the substitutions we made today were in an attempt to increase offensive power, create scoring opportunities, but we couldn’t do that in the game and we were punished at the end of the game for wanting all three points, either way above the opponent, we realized it was the game where we could have all three points, and in the end we had a classic soccer mistake which is attacking and leaving the baselines unprotected, and they explored the counter. Attack with two fast attackers, mainly Felipe Marques who entered the second half, a rested, fast player who managed to pull off this counterattack with great quality at a time when our team was disorganized.