Verdão beat Fluminense 1-0 at Allianz Parque
Palmeiras coach Abel Ferreira tried to slow down the celebrations for the Brazilian title, which is very close but not yet mathematically confirmed. This Sunday (3), the team beat Fluminense 1-0, reaching 69 points and only an upset with elastic scores in the last round could take away the 12th title from the Brazilian alviverde.
The Portuguese also took the opportunity to respond to speculation that he had agreed to leave for Al Sadd, from Qatar. He tried to underline that these are speculations, given that being a coach in Brazil is very tiring, but he is not ungrateful.
“I don’t comment on speculation, you know how Brazilian football is. I’ve already said this throughout the year, there are a lot of speculations about different players, coach, it’s normal. But the most important thing is on Wednesday we will play the most important match of the year and we want to seal this title, because at the moment we are not champions and we really want to be,” he said.
Later, when asked again if he had organized his departure, Abel denied it. “I haven’t defined, you know what’s happening to me, that I have a contract. That’s speculation.” If next Wednesday he confirms the title (6), it will be the ninth won as coach of the club.
“In the first or second Libertadores I said that I would stop and reflect, as I do every year. When we won against Flamengo, I said the same thing: ‘I’m fed up’, and it’s not a lie at all. Do you want me to tell you that it’s difficult to play and travel every three days, it’s difficult to have the institutions of Brazilian football constantly insinuating that your coaching staff or you are this or that, when others have done the same and said nothing. do you think it’s easy? three years passed, not three days, not three months,” he reflected
“Every year, I get to the end, I have a report ready of what I asked for the previous year, what happened and what I think the future of the club will be. And this report is ready to be delivered when the Brasileirão ends. And to have time to rest, because it is very tiring to be a coach in Brazilian football, but there is one thing I have to tell you: I am not ungrateful,” Abel added.
With Sunday’s victory, even if they were defeated by Cruzeiro in the last round, the team should keep the cup, given that Atlético-MG would have to eliminate a deficit of at least seven goals, while Flamengo would need even more, 15 Botafogo, at the time of publishing this report, are facing the same Cruzeiro and need to win. Cruzeiro x Palmeiras will be played this Wednesday (6), at 9.30pm, at Mineirão.
Abel revealed that when the team was 13, 14 points behind former leaders, Botafogo, he said two sentences to the team. “I said two things. Were we at 14 points or 13? I told them that if they abandoned the championship, I would be the first to withdraw. If I had the feeling that they were abandoning, I would be the first to withdraw. “The first to withdraw abandon. This was the first. And the second was that I told you: we have the opportunity to go from here, me as a better coach and you as better players. It is these moments of difficulty that test us that can make us grow and come back even better, and I think they understood the words I meant,” he said.
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“Not that I felt anything when I said ‘if you let yourself go, I would too’ but, sometimes, when we are 13, 14 points down, the tendency can be that there is nothing left to do. I have always said that we have an identity, a character, this team has a history in this club. They were two sentences, and I think they managed to understand them as a team and this for me is what fills me with the most pride: watching and see that they can’t create labels for this team, that they can only play this way, and just highlight it.”
Source: Terra
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