Portuguese journalist João Almeida Moreira defined as “Cain’s complex” the scolding of coach Jorginho, from Atlético-GO, regarding Abel Ferreira’s behavior with referees. There are, in fact, statements that the coach of Palmeiras exaggerates the sentences.
But showing the desire to reserve the market, three years after the success of Jorge Jesus, no longer makes sense.
The best job will be the best. Today, Abel is the best. Rogério Ceni is the one who most can produce a fair reaction from the coaches born in Brazil, with innovations in training, games and strategies. This will happen with time.
The time that Abel Ferreira had to show that he doesn’t manage a one-note team, that he doesn’t depend only on counterattacks, a theory he always refuted. “It’s not just possession. There are four moments of play. You have to be good at defending, pulling the counterattack, good at attacking positionally and when you lose the ball. We are a balanced team at all times. .”
Abel told this to this column in May 2021, when he was accused of only using space. The first goal against Atlético-GO, beginning of the most incredible 7 minutes of the Brazilian 2022, had a pass from Luan to Gabriel Veron, with the offensive movement featuring two defenders, three midfielders and five forwards against four Goiás defenders.
This Monday’s Choque-Rei (20th) can have the five Palmeiras forwards head to head against a line of five defenders, when São Paulo is defending.
Rogério Ceni is detail-oriented. Sometimes he overestimates details that explain a play, not the game. Like the goal conceded against Botafogo, after a corner badly beaten by Wellington.
Or the goal that his team conceded against Palmeiras, in the state, in which the São Paulo coach realized the doctor’s failure, who induced his midfielder to return to the field in the wrong place, and left his team with one less player to fight the cross for Ron’s goal. Rogério is good and his team evolves every month. As was the case with Palmeiras a year ago, while critics only saw Abel counterattack.
Today, Abel reinforces: “Our team does not attack according to the opponent, but our style”. This does not exclude having a strategy for each match, for each rival. Rogério looks at the detail. Against Botafogo, he climbed the team with Gabriel Neves, to play in a line of four defenders. Upon learning that the Botafogo team had three defenders, he changed the steering wheel for defender Diego Costa and was kind enough to warn Botafogo about the change.
The performance was not good and São Paulo lost in Rio.
Rogério Ceni will assemble his team to try to win two games in a row against the best team in the country, currently, for the Brazilian and Copa do Brasil. This is a bigger challenge than discussing the market for technicians based on nationality.
Right now, the best is Abel Ferreira. He assembles the best team, works at the most coherent and structured club, Palmeiras. While Rogério works to try to make São Paulo go back to what it was 15 years ago. Remember? São Paulo was what Palmeiras is today. It was the best place to work and therefore had the best coach.
the royal championship
There was the virtual championship, the one in which only Palmeiras, Atlético and Flamengo would compete. The real shows Corinthians in the fight. He has the same 25 points, good ball circulation and no longer the worst in finishing. Without charm, with competitiveness.
the virtual team
Right now, the virtual competitor is Flamengo. As had already happened in the Supercup, the red-black gave freedom to Arana and one of the actions of the Atlético side helped to define the marker. Atlético, yes, still looks at Palmeiras as a competitor.
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