Mengao fell 3-1 against Olimpia, squandering the advantage they gained in the first game. Considering this, the Argentine coach was one of the first designated.
Flamengo has been excluded from the fight for the Copa Libertadores . Despite gaining a 2-1 advantage in the first leg, Mengao could not confirm this advantage and lost 3-1 on Thursday against Olimpia, remaining on the way to lifting the trophy again. continental.
Faced with this situation, one of the main targets of this failure was Jorge Sampaoli. This is what the Brazilian press specifies in its publications. In fact, Uol has shared a column devoted exclusively to the Argentine’s work.
“The conviction of a technician in his ideas, in his strategies, is a virtue most of the time. But it is possible that it will become a flaw if the insistence goes against reality, the field, the real game. That’s how it happened with Jorge Sampaoli’s Flamengo “, begins the column of Rodrigo Mattos.
“The elimination of the Rubronegro team against Olimpia in the Libertadores round of 16 revealed how the Argentine coach’s vision of football did not adapt to what was seen on the pitch. . The position of the players was also not appropriate to the scenario proposed for the game”, he adds then.
He also clarified that “the Rio team spent half of the first half under pressure without winning any high balls or second balls. Worse still, when there were spaces behind Olimpia, Flamengo was slow and did not accelerate ”.
For his part, Lance presented some key elements to explain Flamengo’s early elimination from the Copa Libertadores. One of them talks about the choice of coaches.
“Fla’s management seem to have no guidelines for choosing their technicians since the departure of Jorge Jesus. Betting on foreign and positional coaches has been a topic at this table. Even with the sequence of failures with Domenec Torrent, Paulo Sousa and Vitor Pereira, President Landim has decided to ‘bank’ Jorge Sampaoli’s choice saying he sees in the Argentine the attacking characteristics that Flamengo deserve . Assessing the performances, it is a fact that Fla had his best moments and obtained his best results with Brazilian coaches who did not practice the so-called ‘position game’”, they indicate.
Another point concerns the internal environment. “The latest news shows a football department with little control and many internal crises . Gabigol had a heated argument with Marcos Braz, was fined and removed from a game. Shortly after, after returning away from the Brasileirão, Pedro was attacked by the club’s now former physical trainer Pablo Fernández, a personal friend of Jorge Sampaoli . It is worth mentioning the cases of former players with similar situations of problems with the coach and the commission, such as the cases of Marinho and Vidal, who left through the back door.
Finally, reporter Galvão Bueno went all out against Jorge Sampaoli. Through his Twitter account, he wrote that “I’ve been saying it since the day he arrived: Sampaoli is a loser! Flamengo was not born for a positional scheme, and with 30 different formations in 30 games! Sampaoli, it worked for you! ”.
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