Unbeaten with Cruzeiro, Felipão praises tactical structure in “significant victory” over Chapecoense | cruise

In the manager’s opinion, the result against the isolated leader, who has a 10-point advantage over the first team outside the G-4, can be considered significant. Once again, Scolari stressed that Cruzeiro’s fight is against relegation and said that the victory in the South was a step towards losing sight of Serie C. Today they are eight points ahead of Náutico, 17th place, who has a party less.

– Regarding today’s victory, I think it was significant, in relation to the three points we needed. As we have always said, we are in a very difficult situation, and this situation is changing little by little, so that we can achieve our goal. When we arrived, Cruzeiro had 13 points, so it was a situation in which we saw great difficulty.

“The steps are being taken slowly. Not like all the fans want, just with wins, but we are getting what we wanted in the first place. “

Besides winning, Cruzeiro showed progress in relation to the last two games, when he played poorly and only drew at home with Guaraní and Figueirense. Felipão praised the team’s tactical stance against Chapecoense, saying that this fit was the main reason the first substitution was made only after 36 minutes of the final stage.

– I didn’t think much about it (after matches) during the match, but I did think about the result we were getting, the way the players were behaving tactically. We can change a player, who can totally change the structure of a team. As they were well structured, we opted for the majority of the players to stay.

In other matches, even with positive results, Felipão criticized the team’s performance. This Tuesday, he insisted that the performance was good, highlighting the compactness and the use of a strikerless scheme. The technician, however, stressed that there are still adjustments to be made so that the Cruzeiro is more balanced.

– We need to make some corrections in some details. Patrick’s second half was much better. The approach was better than in the previous two games. The center forward we had as a reference, replaced by Sobis, caused the rival defense to have some doubts in the marking.

“Today I think it was a good game. We can have an open path and work on it. But there is still a lack of details for our team to become strong, balanced in every game “

Other responses from Felipão

Do you think it was the best performance of Cruzeiro with you?

– I think that today we have some good examples in the game, and we will take them to try to continue this work. If we find, reasonably, some better situations than the ones we had, it is to keep, develop, structure these people who were playing and see, in Friday’s game, if we can maintain that level or even improve a little more. It was a good performance, but let’s not forget that we played quite well against Botafogo and Operário. We did not play well, or we even had some moments in which we overcame to draw a draw, it was against Guaraní and against Figueirense. Today we play well. Now let’s see what happened today. Once again, Adriano’s input was excellent. Once again Ramón, the fourth quarterback, proved to be an excellent quarterback. I am happy with everything.

Could Victoria have been more relaxed?

– I do not believe). I think the team played well, they beat a rival with a lot of quality, that 99% will qualify, they are practically already classified. I would like to have 47 points. Losing a game like that, if I was 47, I’d lose and agree with you. But I’m only 28, so I don’t agree with your line of reasoning. The team behaved well. I hope he continues like this, behaving like this and getting all three points.