After Fluminense x Internacional, Mano Menezes detonates the cast: “We weren’t…”

Mano Menezes left angry with the Internationalafter defeat to Fluminense at the Brasileirão. The coach made a strong statement during the afternoon of last Sunday, the 9th, after his team was beaten 2-0 at Maracanã. The commander of the Rio Grande do Sul team was sincere and did not hide his dissatisfaction with the athletes’ performance during the 90 minutes of the game.

We had a really bad first half. We didn’t score well, we didn’t organize well and, consequently, we didn’t attack well, despite having three strikers. We weren’t a balanced team for the fundamentals of the game. Fluminense has a very good creation, one of the best in the championship’ began his analysis.

According to Mano Menezes, his players were unable to put into practice what was passed on to them during the last few days. Therefore, Internacional left Maracanã with their coach frustrated: “I knew how they would do it and we prepared to try to neutralize it with the three in the middle. We did a part with Pena on the left and tried to bring Valencia closer to Luiz Adriano so that Bustos could have the runner outside. We couldn’t. Consequently, we were dominated to the point of almost not concluding“.

Mano Menezes also pointed to a slight improvement by Internacional in the second half of the match against Fluminense. Even so, the coach of the Rio Grande do Sul team continued with his ‘sincerity box’ open and made it clear that his team did not deserve to have left Maracanã with a better result than defeat.

“In the second half, we improved a little. We took out an attacker and put in a middle man. We arrived more times, but still with difficulty in concluding. The first was with Rômulo, on a prop by Luiz Adriano. Then German on the pole. The team was closer. We don’t deserve a different outcome than what we’re getting“, he completed. With the result, Internacional ranked 10th and wasted the chance to join the G-4.