Odair assures that Fluminense sought a tie in the hard and regrets a new injury at the beginning: “The athletes are going to the limit” | fluminense

+ Actions: Luiz Henrique and Danilo Barcelos save in a draw
+ Danilo Barcelos says that the score could have been better for the flu

– Injuries always happen in football, but when you have a requirement like the one happening now, players are much more likely to get hurt. It does not mean that injuries cannot occur when you have a space of time, because athletes go to the physical limit. But when you have this situation of not being able to make the best recovery, all teams and players are at greater risk. We had a high intensity match on Wednesday night, we arrived at dawn, we trained one day, 48 hours later we were already on the pitch and we suffered the consequences in today’s match – said the coach, who greatly regretted the loss of Yago Felipe :

– Yago was already well adapted to movements with and without the ball. It was an already natural movement that was happening and that strengthened the midfield. With his defeat, André entered well, very well. But of course, if Yago stayed in the game, perhaps we would not have lost that control of possession at 20 minutes and perhaps we would have maintained that possession even longer, despite the good tackle from André, who has a different characteristic.

“Unfortunately, the injury happened, as it also happened at Atlético-MG. That created difficulties, but André must be congratulated for the game he also played. He is another great player that Fluminense reveals for Brazilian football,” he added.

Odair presented his analysis of Fluminense’s performance and confessed that the team’s performance was bad, especially from the first half.

– We managed to print our game until the first 20 minutes and then Ceará managed to grow, managed to create danger without many clear situations and had more possession of the ball. We could not have control through possession and that made the rival grow in the game and then the goal came from set pieces. In the second part, I made the modifications and also the system so that we could regain control of the game through possession and passing. It ended up not happening, it goes 2 to 1 and then you have to expose yourself in such a way to look for at least the tie and then look for the turn. It ends up giving space to the opposing team, which has a characteristic of physical imposition, competition and rapid transition. Then you end up exposing yourself to these situations – analyzed the coach.

“But, fortunately, today we managed, with a lot of strength, will and sweat, to find the tie,” he added.

– Not what we wanted. We wanted to win those three points at home, but there was a draw in a physical and tactical improvement of the players. From the age of 35 we managed to stay a little longer with this control to try to get the tie, which came out in the end. But today we could not play a good game technically. We couldn’t maintain the possession situation and this ends up creating a better situation for the opponent and difficulties for us. That week we played three games in six days and that weighed heavily. But it’s important for us to evaluate the full sequence of six games without losing at home, we haven’t lost yet. But in the Brazilian Championship it is not enough, you have to look for points away from home, you have to win away and at home and the more you do it regularly, the more you are at the top of the table, as we are and we stay in the G-6. . Of course, we get angry because we did not get all three points, but we are going to get everyone back, to train hard so that we can resume the victories at home – concluded Odair.

See other points from Odair Hellmann’s interview:

Plans for Lucca’s debut

– It is the rehabilitation to football, another type of training, another level of training. The substitutions I made were for attacking players: Marcos Paulo, Caio Paulista, Felipe, Ganso … Players who were going to try to rescue this possession of ours, this force of maintaining the pass and possession so that we could regain control. of the game and seek that victory. So in the end, I put both of them in center forward because we needed an imposition because we were reaching at least the sides of the field. Ceará made the midfield too difficult. We got there and we needed a better definition. So Felipe’s option at the end. I could have put Marcos Paulo in and put Lucca open or inside, but my option for the moment was to give him that weight in the area, which was when the goal happened because we triangulated well from the side and defined it. A center forward moved the near post, took the mark, the other leaned and Danilo’s surprise entry. So it worked. Lucca will have his chance, like all players. We have a lot of players in the role and I can’t put them all in the same game at the same time. At some point a player with some characteristic will enter, at another time another player with another characteristic will enter. Lucca will also have a chance throughout the Championship.

Alignment differences

– I have not praised the team on Wednesday, I have praised the team in the last six games. Regardless of the lineup, I have praised the group for their performance. Nenê and Fred started and started playing again. It wasn’t specifically on Wednesday. I also praised the team that played with Nenê and Fred and we beat Bahia. There is no differentiation for me.

– In the conjecture of evaluating the team, from the sequence of six games with three away from home, we are looking for a point against Botafogo away from home, which is a classic, we are looking for a point against Atlético-MG that everyone said that those three points they were out of the hike. And if he adds that point, it is a victory at home and he would not beat Botafogo and Atlético-MG in the sum of points in a regular ride in a 38-day championship. But draw at home, just because of the circumstances of the game. We play to win, we want to win. We don’t get frustrated because we still manage to find the tie at the end of the game by imposing and fighting to the end, which is a characteristic of this group. But of course we would like to seek victory. In the conjecture of the whole trip, it is one more point. Unfortunately it was not all three, but we have the next game at home, so we can look for those three points and continue in the G-6, at the top of the table, looking for the first places.

Goals and objectives of the week

“Take the opportunity to recover the players, do a strong training week so that we become strong in each match. Each match will be treated as a final, which we have to prevail in all phases of the match and achieve victories and good performances and good results. so that we continue on this good path, which has been excellent so far ”.

– This is a great project. Young player who is making the transition from base to professional, those who have passed the age of junior, those who have not yet passed … Because sometimes some players overcome stages and make a faster play. But the club has contracts with many players who are older than the U-20s and it is necessary to use these players, mature, and the greater the possibility of this integrated work, the more we imagine making more players and making these players establish themselves within Fluminense and within the professional group. And the player needs to play, especially the base player. A youth soccer player who is at the age of youth soccer or who is in this transition even though he did not have a professional statement, he needs to play. For him it is important to play and development only happens with hours and moments of play. So, it is essential that the players who are not being used more directly in the professional can do this integration work and participate in the game so that it fails, hits, evolves, so that it is corrected, so that it has timing, and that it shows its capacity and win. more space. By the time you receive the opportunity in the professional you are much more prepared and prepared for this action.

Any specific deficiencies in the cast?

– I have the characteristic of not making any kind of comment about the hiring, what you need and what you don’t need, what is the possibility or not because they are situations that interfere in the market, they can interfere in any other situation. I work and trust the group that I have, I work tirelessly so that the group that we have at hand can perform at their best individually. I work so that we form a very strong collective team so that the individual appears and stands out. We are always attentive to these conversations, assessments and re-evaluations, knowing and emphasizing once again that Fluminense has a very difficult financial situation. It is not easy, because you also need to maintain structure daily and financially monthly. All of this makes management difficult and we have this understanding and vision. We are working in these circumstances and we are managing to work well with all the structural difficulties that the club has.

– The management is trying to work in every way so that, more and more, it places the economic and structural situation of Fluminense on another level. He’s doing a great job with all this difficulty, which is not easy. Because football without money is difficult. If you already have difficulties with money, imagine without money. So internally, we do what it has been since the beginning of the year. We sit down, talk, conduct meetings and evaluations. Fluminense must always be open to market opportunities, but the market is not that easy. It is about economic situations, characteristics … We already have a large group, we have to be surgical. If, by chance, we find it necessary to bring one more feature that it has in any player, we always do it internally. Externally, I am always very careful to respond to these types of situations because they can be interpreted and even make any type of action difficult. I’m a guy who talks a lot about the group we have, which is a group with a lot of quality and a lot of character and professionalism, which is giving a great response in the Brazilian Championship. We need to resume, as of Tuesday, our training day in a forceful way and look for a final in each game and as many points as possible to continue in that part of the table where we are and compete for the top positions. from the competition.