Expresso Grandstand | That magnificent desolation on the child’s face



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Being audible, the sound is insufficient, there are no signs indicating the hoarse direction “Come on, boy!” He listened, the ball was still reaching Rochinha through Uribe’s messy foot, who failed when trying to pass the ball that Sérgio Oliveira passed him, he did not look, did not see and did not even realize that the end was where it was supposed to be , closing the fence to attach a reception that Vitória invited FC Porto to try in the center. It was a bait.

Individual failure was successful. Rochinha started with the ball and forced to double the authorship of the error because Uribe went to redemption and still achieved it, on fire, pretending that the Portuguese fixed the final space with which he finished the 1-0 (deflected to the back of Diogo Leite), already on the edge of the area. It was the seventh minute of the game and there was more jargon, right there, in the empty stadium.

A hollow room is a sad sight, depressing even, but here and now it might be for the best. It was in this place where some backward and intellectually disadvantaged humans imitated the sounds of monkeys 316 days ago every time Moussa Marega touched the ball, it is not for them that the stadium was without people, but these details were never they will lose for the good of all. people and Marega.

In the first minute, the Malian came close to contributing to a goal, the Malian put even more pressure on the action of Bruno Varela who already had a lot of pressure on him: Sacko delayed the ball in the air, hit it just ahead in the area and the goalkeeper tried to head him. He just nudged him a little toward Corona, whose shot scraped off the bar. Soon after, Marega was thrown by Taremi into the area and dragged a soft ball into Varela’s hands.

But they were not signs of superiority, much less haughtiness in the game, because for half an hour Vitória canceled several things about FC Porto while the Porto players got stuck. Letting the ball roll freely through the center, the Guimarães players put the ends to block passes to the flanks and invited the rival to risk balls from the inside, where they touched the back of the midfielders, many times inferior to Sérgio Oliveira. Retreat at the exit of the ball with Pepe and Diogo Leite (even without pressure).

And with Vitória having the last line close to his area, he removed the depth so desired by FC Porto, which often resorted to a long and direct pass, but a beggar for receipts or strikers disputes and not attack moves into space in the back of the players. defenses, which did not exist. Additionally, the team was ostracized where it often ruthlessly represses others – in duels. Almost everyone lost them.

Without Vitória being able to adequately filter all this in plays that ended near the area, it was half an hour of errors, failed passes, second lost balls and fouls, quite a few fouls, the sad desolation was on Romário Baró’s face as he waited. See his number on the fourth official’s plate, at the end of that half hour, when he had already seen a yellow card and had just committed two field fouls per second.

With Luis Díaz being an option, more on the outside, to receive and face opponents in dribbling, the team improved, also by hitting the way to pressure Vitória, with two lines of three falling quickly on any ball exit. And Pepe would also leave, due to injury.

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The home team lowered the lines, was forced to shrink the team and lost the ability to rack up seconds to advance on the field with many players rather than just the hot flashes of Rochinha and Ricardo Quaresma.

The FC Porto midfielders have already inhaled and expired with a ball in someone else’s field, in addition to shrinking Vitória’s lines they were becoming so passive that Sérgio Oliveira had time to rip an aerial pass to Marega, waiting in the back of the wing , attack the area and first touch the ball to the other post, where Taremi stretched to 1-1. There was little left for rest.

The ancestry of those who visited continued and the hosts would seize once and for all the lower-middle block, waiting for FC Porto closer to the area and, putting the pieces together, they would bet once and for all on quick transitions when there was less. people from Porto to defend more meters of field.

That team was intense in the pressure on the opponents’ exit, of the aggressiveness put in all the duels and in the mixture of movements inside, by the frontal support (Taremi) with sprints by depth (Marega) you could already see. And Vitória suffered in the second half with this gardener of ingredients: his wings were alone against Corona and Díaz, his centrals also fought with the forwards because the help of Pepelu did not always arrive.

And FC Porto loaded, forced, insisted and had multiple orphaned balls from a single submission in the area. But, before appearing, there was another error by Uribe who was punished by Vitória. The Colombian went to discuss a ball split with the heel, the rest went to Rochinha, who saw the most dangerous soul on the field – and even the most discreet souls in the game – only with Zaidu ahead.

The pass entered the Quaresma bailaor technician, whose bipedal simulations found space to cross the ball that Estupiñán headed 2-1. It was almost a grain of sand in the extensive forward of FC Porto, he did not change trends or rhythms, Sérgio Conceição’s team continued to put many plays to be decided in one-on-one situations at its ends, because there was no space in deep or inside opponent’s shrunken block.

One of them, shortly after, made Luis Díaz overtake Sacko in the sprint and cross low to the place where the rammed foot Taremi was going to arrive, to beat 2-2 initially. Then, the more serene and insightful Corona had all the time to cross the ball that Suliman intercepted with his head, lifting it over the area; Although they surrounded him, none of the three opponents played it with Luis Díaz, who tamed him with a receiving shoe and finished him off with the toe of his boot, the only possible way to make it 2-3.

With discounts, the game would end 15 minutes later. There was nothing more dangerous, the goals would remain calm, the victory of FC Porto would arrive and the last whistle, sorry for centralization, my memory rewound back to the beardless face of Romário Baró, fatally to look what awaited him when he was replaced by the guy who ended up unlocking the game.

It was a magnificent desolation: he was saddened and devastated by the yellow that had already taken him off the field – by the coach’s admission; The team, even without knowing it, comes out magnified in the game, even if they are moments that can destroy the confidence and external perception of a player born in 2000.



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