Flamengo lost 2-0 to Fluminense and Paulo Sousa opened the game about individual mistakes, especially those of Léo Pereira
Leo Pereira and the cast of Flamengo did not have a great performance, irritated Paulo Sousa and left the Maracanãlast Wednesday, 30, with a 2-0 defeat to Fluminense. The defeat in the Carioca Championship final seems to have bothered the Portuguese coach a lot, who used the press conference to make a strong outburst about the mistakes of his team.
Pursued by rivals and Flamengo fans, Léo Pereira was one of the most talked about subjects after the classic against Fluminense. Despite this, Paulo Sousa did not relieve the defender and left dissatisfied with what the athlete presented in the Carioca Championship final. The coach, by the way, criticized the defender’s departure of the ball and asked the cast for help with the defender.
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“Of course there has to be climate, of course it has to turn around. I, as a leader, and your colleagues have to help. He has a strong personality, he started very well this season. Unfortunately, he is a player who has had these moments that condition results and bring him a lot of pressure.“, began the rant.
“It has many important characteristics, it is super aggressive in the air. He’s fast, he plays well, he’s technically advanced, he’s super aggressive in duels. That’s why he’s a very valid player. We have to help you to prevent these one-offs from conditioning results. We will reverse the situation, I have no doubt, especially at the level of the game we present”,completed Paulo Sousa on Léo Pereira.
But it wasn’t just the Flamengo defender who took a message from the coach. The entire cast also received criticism throughout the press conference. According to Paulo Sousa, his team failed in the tactical, technical and individual sense. He also valued the work done by Abel Braga to hold the red-blacks against Fluminense.
“Today, without a doubt, we were all very bad individually, technically and tactically. And I’m the first to put myself at the head of the pack. Things didn’t work out, and our opponent was much better in the tactical context that my colleague Abel created for that game. We wanted to speed up the game too much with few situations, especially in the low quality pass. And we have a lot of quality. We were too far apart in the lines, which didn’t make us fresh to give more energy in the pressure“, he explained.
Then the game unfortunately has a lot to do with completely unfavorable technical decisions. It was not what we allowed our adversary to create. The transitions came a lot because of the misfortunes of our players. But of course we didn’t do well.”finished.
Game over at Maracanã. Flamengo is defeated by Fluminense by 2 to 0 in the first match of the Carioca Championship final. #CRF
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— Flamengo (@Flamengo) March 31, 2022
Source: sportbuzz
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