Verdão played eight consecutive matches with a short rest break
The coach of Palmeiras, Abel Ferreira, held a press conference after the 3-0 victory over Internacional, this Saturday (11), and addressed several topics. With the result obtained at Arena Barueri, the team will sleep at the top of the tournament, supporting Botafogo and Grêmio this Sunday (12) to stay there.
“I’m very proud of our players. Did you see what Vanderlan played? The questions you have to ask yourself are not why Vanderlan plays, it’s what you want in that position. I want verticality, I want a player who, when he sees ‘I have the ball, run forward. I don’t want a player who passes the ball backwards, like 90% of Brazilian teams do. I don’t want this, I want samba, verticality, I want to score goals.”
When asked about the severity of Luan’s possible injury, the Portuguese complained a lot about the marathon of matches that the clubs are going through at the moment. The defender was replaced at half-time because he felt pain in his right thigh.
“It’s a shame that the CBF allows you to play eight games in a row with two or three days of rest. It’s a shame, this is crazy for everyone.” In the last match here, Atletico-PR was without two players. We, Luan, I don’t know what will happen, and two more Internacional players were injured. Doesn’t this make you think? It’s a shame what they do to Brazilian players, to Brazilian football,” he questioned.
He also took the opportunity to tap part of the “3% of fans” of Palmeiras. “Which fans are you talking about? The ones who come here to support us or the ones who sit at home in front of the computer, blog and criticize us to influence others? This is what I tell my players: don’t let these fans influence you”, who may not even be members,” Abel said.
“I am referring to the 3% of fans, those who stay at home, create a blog (some) and do nothing else. I am the coach. I make mistakes like everyone else, but the feeling that What matters is that whoever is in front of the computers he knows everything, he never makes mistakes and always speaks at the end. But I prefer to valorise all the remaining 97% of the fans”, added commander Alviverde.
Now Abel and part of the team will finally have a period of rest, with the championship suspended due to Data-Fifa. The team will play again just in two weeks, on November 26, against Fortaleza, at Arena Castelão.
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Six players have been called up by their respective teams and are expected to return only on the 22nd: Raphael Veiga and Endrick (Brazil), Gustavo Gómez (Paraguay), Piquerez (Uruguay), Richard Ríos (Colombia), Luis Guilherme and Vanderlan (Brazil sub-23) .
Source: Terra
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