Coach Cruz-Maltino appreciated the team’s performance and high intensity and judged the result as bad
The penalty ball. Thanks to the lack of efficiency in the finals, Vasco lost the first game of the Brazilian championship, this Monday, with the setback against Bahia for 1 to 0. Manager Maurício Barbieri lamented the large amount of missed chances, but analyzed the team’s performance differently from the result.
– Efficiency always has an important weight in the result. In the first half, in particular, we created a good number of chances and we weren’t efficient. They had a ball early in the game, which hit the crossbar. That ball was missing to stop the counterattack or foul if necessary, defend better. In the second half they came with a much longer wait and game attitude. They created an inferior block and we tried to find solutions. Also for being a new situation in the league, being behind and having to look for the result. We got anxious, missed a lot of steps and made not so good decisions. We managed to get close to scoring, but we couldn’t make the last pass. The Puma has reached the baseline. Let’s put the ball inside the area – mark Barbieri and then complete:
– We had finishes, we got close to their goal, but we had to finish better. It wasn’t a bad game, in terms of volume and what we created. The players had a very high intensity from start to finish. But it’s a bad result. I make this separation between the result of the team and the performance.
Barbieri also commented on Vasco’s difficulty in playing a proactive game. Against opponents with more power, Cruz-Maltino, in a sense, was more responsive and superior. A more elastic score has escaped against Bahia.
– We need to improve in this regard. But I will remind you of our second goal against Palmeiras. The ball went into Léo Jardim’s hand and we moved until it went inside the box and Pec scored on the rebound. It was a move we built from the very beginning. It is a point that we tend to evolve and it takes more time. It depends on other issues besides the organization. It depends on creativity and other things. But I repeat, we created a good number of chances, at least for the score to be different. We had to be more efficient. It should have been better defined. In the second half we succumbed to anxiety and made many mistakes. So much so that in the second half they had many situations of counterattack and danger. Léo Jardim made good saves. Because we started making a lot of mistakes, accelerating too much,” the coach considered. And he revealed the reason for Gabriel Pec’s farewell, the biggest highlight of the Vasco season:
– asked to leave Pec, who was beginning to feel cramps.
In this Monday’s match, two players made their debut for Vasco. Midfielder Carabajal and striker Rwan Cruz. The athletes found themselves in a moment when Cruz-Maltino suffered from anxiety and could not change the scenario of the match.
– Compared to Carabajal, he is a more creative player who thinks more about the game and has more ball. That was the idea. At the moment I thought that Alex (Teixeira) had lost a bit of rhythm. The idea was for him to replace Alex. Then we needed to have more presence in the area and so I went in with Rwan and moved Carabajal back so he could start construction there. Rodrigo’s entrance has something to do with it. Since I got two shuttlecocks, I needed a deposit to give to other players for free. They are players who have trained very well, but I don’t think they have been able to reproduce what they showed in training in the game. But again, they play in context. It was a time when the team was very anxious and nervous. I think they too ended up entering this context and didn’t give away everything they had to give away.
Now Vasco has the rest of the week to continue working hard. On Saturday, Cruz-Maltino plays the first classic of the Brazilian championship and the rivals are Fluminense. The match will be in the Maracanã, at 21:00.
Source: Terra
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