After Flamengo’s victory, Barbieri evaluates Vasco’s “determinant” mistake

O Basque couldn’t win the Flamengo at the Carioca ChampionshipIt is Mauricio Barbieri hopes to revert the result next Sunday, 19th, at 4 pm (Brasília time), in Maracanã. Coach Cruzmaltino said in a press conference, held after the 3-2 defeat last Monday, the 13th, that the negative result did not frustrate anyone. In addition, he broke the silence in relation to a bid that was decisive for the Flamengo victory.

Mauricio Barbieri was clear when commenting on Capasso’s mistake during Flamengo’s second goal in the match against Vasco. On that occasion, the Argentine sent the ball into his own area, but he missed and the ball landed at Pedro’s feet. The number 9 shirt did not forgive the defender’s failure and put it in the back of the net. At that moment, Fla turned the match to 2 to 1, and the Cruzmaltino coach did not hide his dissatisfaction with the move.

“The bid interfered because it was decisive. The idea is not to play at any risk. We can’t give up and just play for a long time. Flamengo had a way of scoring that offered some spaces, this was not the case. We think that Capasso ended up making a wrong decision, I didn’t talk to him afterwards, but he felt a lot“, said the coach of Vasco.

Even so, Barbieri revealed that he left a warning for his cast: “What I did was ask the team for peace of mind, it’s 180 minutes, we couldn’t get emotionally unbalanced. We come back balanced, we draw, but we get a goal on the dead ball. In the end, due to the changes I made, Flamengo created more opportunities, we ended up exposing ourselves a little. Then he even came back well, made cuts, aerial dispute. But it turned out to be a decisive move for the result“.

In addition to commenting on Capasso’s mistake, Mauricio Barbieri also said that he was not frustrated with the defeat against Flamengo. He even recalled the advantage of the draw that Vasco had for the semifinals of the Carioca Championship and said again that he only thinks about victory, but that the moment is to join forces and concentrate on the match against ABC in the Copa do Brasil.

“It doesn’t disappoint, I think it’s an important point that we won in the first phase, now we depend on a simple victory. Of course they reversed in the sense that there are no more two draws, but we depend on a simple victory. They put a lot of weight on this advantage and forgot other factors that brought us a disadvantage, which has nothing to do with the opponent”, he explained before concluding that:

“Having played a day later, having one less day of preparation, a decision in the middle of the week. These are important points. The fact that we had the possibility of two equal results balanced yet another dispute that at first was against us, due to the sequence the calendar and everything. They got the result, we need a simple victory, and now it’s the focus on Thursday (against ABC in the Copa do Brasil)”completed.