Tite praises Flamengo but underlines: ‘It’s still an open semi-final’

After the 2-0 victory against Fluminense, in the first match of the Cariocão semi-final, Tite held a press conference and preached calm in his speech. “It’s still an open semi-final.” The coach also highly praised the team’s performance, without however being enthusiastic about the return match. The teams next Saturday […]

After the 2-0 victory against Fluminense, in the first match of the Cariocão semi-final, Tite held a press conference and preached calm in his speech. “It’s still an open semi-final.” The coach also highly praised the team’s performance, without however being enthusiastic about the return match. Next Saturday the teams will face each other again and the Tricolore will have to win with a three-goal difference, given that Rubro-Negro has the draw advantage.

Tite opened the interview by praising Flamengo’s performance and recognizing the quality of Fluminese. “It’s a beautiful match, worthy of the greatness of Fla-Flu, the technical quality of both teams and a great performance, with great results”

Even at 2-0, after a dominant performance and the advantage of an aggregate draw for the second leg, Tite continues to have his feet on the ground. “It’s still an open semi-final”

When questioned about the collective spirit of the team, the Flamengo coach also proved to be less than enthusiastic and underlined the professionalism of the athletes: “It’s not a family. The family is a sacred thing, father, son, mother, they have no equals. C ‘it’s a professional relationship’ who are transparent, loyal, who want the job, who don’t want to take anything away from their opponent. But they don’t want anyone to take away what’s theirs. It is a right that they have and that they seek through their work, to be worthy”

Technical assistant Cléber Xavier also participated in the press conference and, speaking about the balance of the team, Tite underlined the work of the technical committee. “He (Cléber Xavier) talks about defensive consistency and Matheus (Bachi) talks about scoring goals.” Matheus is the son of Tite, who is also the team’s assistant.

Regarding signings and the quality of Flamengo’s squad, Tite said he was speaking on behalf of the board and explained the planning a bit. “Flamengo projects a medium/long-term team, regardless of the coach. So they have two athletes who are playing a lot and are selectable. They have an extraordinary player, David (Luiz), with experience, a young emerging boy and looking for their space, which is Bahia (Cleiton). Rodrigo Caio and Pablo have left, and Léo Ortiz has arrived, who fits both the technical and personal profile, to maintain longevity”

Cléber Xavier also answered some questions and revealed the focus of the last week’s training. “We work a lot on finishing and other techniques. We will continue to work on finishing, with deep and central balls. We try to improve game after game.”

Cléber took the opportunity to analyze the match. “We gave the opponents few chances, they shot very little, I don’t think there was anyone on goal. We were effective in the offensive options we had, we could have had one or the other clearer situation and we maintained the average we had during the match. competition. Not conceding a goal and scoring one or more goals and we are very happy for this and for the greatness of the opponent, but we are aware that this semi-final continues on Saturday.”

Source: Terra

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