Vasco will face Flamengo in the semifinals of the Carioca Championship, and Mauricio Barbieri revealed an advantage for the alvinegro team
Basque It is Flamengo will be the most anticipated match of the semifinals of the cariocão. Mauricio Barbieri, even, after Cruzmaltino’s classification for the next phase of the state, he used a good part of his press conference to analyze the next games against the rubro-negro. Even if it is a classic and the rival can be considered a favorite, the Giant of the Hill understands that he will arrive for the clashes with a little more respect on the other side.
That’s because, in the penultimate round of the first phase, Vasco won, who won 1-0 against Flamengo. Therefore, Mauricio Barbieri insisted on saying that: “Today I’m sure they have a lot more respect for us than they did at the beginning of the season. Nice. The idea is for it to be a great show, and for my part I want to come out victorious.“.
Vasco will have an ally for the games against Flamengo. The alvinegra team will be able to act for the tie to get the classification for the final of Cariocão. Mauricio Barbieri commented on this “advantage”, but warned that none of this will make any difference if his squad does not manage to turn the classic into a balanced confrontation. The technician highlighted the qualities that the rival has.
“I would trade the word tranquility for advantage. We’re not going to go peacefully. We go in knowing that if there are two equal results, we move forward. but we need to build within the games. The idea is that we play two great games so that we don’t need that advantage. We will face a great team, with recent achievements. Competent cast. As much as it’s not the best time, it’s always dangerous. We go with a lot of humility. We want to win both games, but thinking macro, we had the objective of disputing decisions“, he stated.
The advantage of two equal results can be an advantage if we manage to build, balance the games. It is merit of what we did in the first phase. They had the opportunity and they didn’t. We put it in our pocket“, continued.
Even with his positivity for the classic against Flamengo, Mauricio Barbieri ended his answers with a warning about the rivals’ experience: “I think that speaking of team and squad, the opponent is ahead of us. It’s a team more used to decisions than us. As a team. We have players who are used to deciding, but they have a more mature team in that sense. It is a challenge and a gap that we have to mentally work through”.
Source: sportbuzz
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