Odair praises Fluminense’s “strong reaction” after elimination: “Always very difficult to digest” | fluminense

– Always very difficult for you to digest after a match in which you were eliminated in the Brazil Cup. Everyone was very upset, sore with all this. Not only the fans, but all of us who live our day to day, we give ourselves to the fullest to be able to bring better results for the fans, for the club. When such a setback occurs, it is important that in the next game the team has a strong reaction, as we did. It is not easy to have, but the group has personality, it has been working hard – praised Odair, adding:

– We did not deserve what happened, but we cannot look back, go back and fix what we did not achieve in the Copa do Brasil. We can improve going forward. Now there is the Brazilian Championship and we have to focus on the fact that each game for us is a decision, it is final. Work, improve performance on a day-to-day basis so that everything is reflected on the field and we stay in this range of the table, among the first. The championship is long, competitive, but if we start from this position, today’s standard, we will surely be able to have a very good championship.

With the victory, Fluminense finished the round in seventh place at the Brasileirão, with 17 points, one behind the G-6, qualifying zone for the Pre-Libertadores. Tricolor will return to the field next Sunday, when he faces the classic with Botafogo at 11 in the morning (Brasilia time), in Nilton Santos.

See other answers from Odair:

– I think the whole team played a consistent game, very safe in the defensive phase, and in the offense it produced and was effective in scoring goals. When he had to organize he defended very well. It is important not to take goals and we do not. Even with an elastic marker, you can sometimes relax and end up happening. Coritiba even produced some situations, but not only Muriel, but everyone did very well. Congratulations to everyone who entered the field, not just those who started, but those who entered later. And Muriel too.

– Each team goes through processes within the game, it also has to see the rival when they scored the goal. We dominated the game until 25 minutes into the first half, we could have extended it and we didn’t, and the rival grows naturally within the game, begins to look for ways to get off the scoreboard, the strength that we were impressing in the game. It is important that the team is balanced and is able to give an answer of not taking the goal. In the second half we scored the second goal, then the game is lighter, within what we had been producing until then.

– The variables within the game are normal, what cannot happen when the opposing team has control of the actions is that you suffer the goal, you cannot prevail without the ball in the defensive organization. This generates discomfort and confidence to the opponent. It was only a few minutes, we reduced that space of dominance of the rival and in most of the 90 minutes we had regularity of performance in all phases of the game.

– I told all the players that after the elimination match we would have nothing else to do. We should and had to give a quick response of force, imposition of the game and not stop doing things better than we did in the game we lost. This is what a team that has regularity, strength, standard can maintain. So it is taking negative experiences and transforming them into positive ones with performance, results … It was the most important thing today, a consistent display in every way.

– I am a professional who works a lot, I dedicate myself a lot. I respect opposing opinions, I am a boy of observation, of reading what is happening, of critical processes, very attentive to that. But I usually protect the dressing room, the players. As a coach, especially in the most difficult moments, I am the boy who goes there to give a hug, I show him strength, confidence so that he can quickly reestablish himself. We all go through bad, difficult, irregular times, not only in sports but in life. But few in bad times come to reach out, talk, do this, improve it, visualize what you did wrong, but look ahead, work, sweat a lot, that things will happen again.

– What I do as a coach, I don’t give my head to anyone. I have great respect for them and that is why I will continue to be here and throughout my career. Call me responsibility as a coach and transmit lightness to them so they can perform better. Of course, always doing analysis calmly, with discretion, on a day-to-day basis and making the decisions that need to be made. I do not make decisions in the minds of others, by pressure, I make decisions about my daily work, by my convictions. I make mistakes and blows like any human being, any coach, but I try to build confidence and play like they played today.

– Big club, giant like Fluminense, surely when it is eliminated there are burdens, setbacks. As long as they have respect and don’t cross the line, they are acceptable. They happen, it’s part of football. Pressure cannot enter the internal factor. And neither is the internal factor, in this case, we do not stop evaluating, asking ourselves, doing a self-analysis, knowing how to improve, making decisions that are important for the group to strengthen itself and give the answers that the fans want, that we do. we want. You can be sure that I want a strong, winning team to represent you. We have always worked hard to achieve this. Sometimes it doesn’t work, so you can quickly learn lessons so that in the next step you can give an imposition response like we did today.