Opinion – Tostão: Sylvinho, Tite and Ancelotti should hold a videoconference

I don’t know what I like to write more: about logic, understanding the game and technical and tactical details or about the uncertainty and drama of a game, which has no defined plot, like life. I try to have both looks. Sometimes they don’t understand each other. One wants to be more important than the other.

The 1-1 draw with Ecuador was a weird, crazy, bad game, with four decisive moves altered by VAR and with ten players on each side most of the time. The referee wanted to make up for the mistakes, but VAR wouldn’t let him.

Marquinhos and Neymar are sorely missed by the national team. Marquinhos and Thiago Silva form one of the best defenders in the world. The assessment that Thiago Silva plays very well at Chelsea because the team has three defenders, and he, with older age, is more protected, does not hold up, as Thiago Silva also shines in the selection.

Against Paraguay, on Tuesday, at Mineirão, Tite will return Coutinho, as he only played 30 minutes, because of the necessary replacement of the coach, or he will enter with Paquetá, suspended from the first match, who would be the immediate replacement. from Neymar?

I won’t be surprised either if the coach takes one of the players aside, Vinicius Junior or Raphinha, to make way for Paquetá, keeping Coutinho. Vinicius Junior needs to play more often and in consecutive matches for the national team.

The youngster will have a hard time repeating in the national team what he does at Real Madrid, because, in the Spanish team, he learned with Ancelotti to play on the side, open, and also in the middle, entering diagonally, to receive the ball behind the midfield. opponent, closest to the centre-forward, the area and the goal.

Real play with a trio in midfield, without an attacking midfielder. In the national team, as the team plays with two midfielders in line, Casemiro and Fred, and a midfielder in front of the two (Neymar or Coutinho or Paquetá), the space behind the opposing midfield is filled by the attacking midfielder.

The solution for the Brazilian national team is not to act like Real Madrid, because there are no high-level midfielders, like Kroos and Modric, who play from one intermediary to the other. With three in midfield, Neymar would have to play on the left and there would be no left for Vinicius Junior.

And there’s still Paquetá for Tite to find a place or even Coutinho, if he shines again. There are doubts and riddles that Tite will have to solve until the Cup. He should seek help, call Ancelotti, whom he admires so much, to talk about Vinicius Junior and other things.

Corinthians, on the drawing board, has the same tactical design as Real Madrid, with a trio in midfield, two open players and a striker. The team is very static, with each player in his position, which makes it easier for the opponent to mark.

Róger Guedes, on the left, could, as in Atlético’s time and as Vinicius Junior does at Real, play on the wing and also enter the middle, diagonally, to receive the ball behind the opposing midfield, closer to the goal and the center forward.

The young Sylvinho, vibrant and studious, who was Tite’s assistant and who loves the “titês”, should call the national team coach to ask for help. Sylvinho, Tite and Ancelotti could talk together, at least by videoconference. One could help the other. Everyone needs help. I only suggest that Sylvinho call Paulinho Paulinho, not Paulo. It gets very boring.