Vanderlei Luxemburg values ​​Palmeiras’ strategies and breaks taboo in La Paz | palms

One of the strategies was to bet on the speed of forward Ron, who, even in the first half, received a long shot and suffered the penalty that Willian converted to open the scoring.

– The long ball on Ron was also trained. Our goalkeeper and defenders take the ball well. It was a strategy. At altitude, speed is important, so much so that he (Ron) was causing difficulties all the time. Everything that happened was well planned – he said, referring to the altitude of 3,640 meters.

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According to Luxemburg, another important and proven point to guarantee 100% success in three days and the leadership of Group B of the South American tournament was seen in the strong and beautiful shot from outside the area of ​​Gabriel Menino, in the second goal of Palmeiras.

– The problems (due to the height) are surprises, headache, retching, dizziness, a number of things. In two days, three days, these things will break. We stay with what happens in the game. The ball is fast, we trained a lot of shots from outside the antenna and we took a shot, he was trained.

What was not planned, but ended up being used by Luxembourg, was the entry of Vitor Hugo as a third defender to reinforce the work of the duo formed by Gustavo Gómez and Luan after Bolívar narrowed the gap on the scoreboard.

– I began to have a lot of aerial ball, in the crosses. I put three defenses to eliminate this ball, which was creating difficulties for us, he commented, recalling the marks reached this Wednesday by Palmeiras, such as three consecutive victories in the first three games of the Libertadores, which has not occurred since 1968.

– It has been 37 years since a Brazilian team won here, we kept our unbeaten record in 15 games. Some things that had not happened in a long time, like three consecutive victories (in the first three games) in the Libertadores.

Other topics from Luxa’s interview:

– I would like to congratulate these children, because playing here at height is very difficult. Congratulations also to your team, which is very well configured and we knew how to suffer in the game. The players are to be congratulated.

– First we have to qualify. We won three games, we are key leaders, but we have to qualify, then there is the knockout, a lot to go. We are one of the teams that we are fighting, but there are others. It’s too early to say that Palmeiras is a favorite. We will work hard to make this happen. Our cast is versatile and has a lot of young people that we are putting on the top team. We are on the right track, but there is still a long way to go.

– To win the championship, you must improve each game. Later we will play against Guaraní, a very strong team that scores very strong. We will have to change the strategy, because playing in São Paulo we had difficulties. We won, but we had difficulties. But now we have to forget about the Libertadores and play against Grêmio, which is an important match in the Brazilian Championship.