Big comebacks like Palmeiras’s don’t have a single explanation – 04/11/2023 – Tostão

Palmeiras’ avalanche in the 5-0 rout against São Paulo was repeated in the second half against Botafogo. The controversial expulsion of a Botafogo player and the penalty missed by Tiquinho, a mistake by the referee, when the game was 3-1, contributed to the spectacular reaction and Palmeiras’ 4-3 victory.

Young Endrick shone brightly. Controlling the ball with his right knee adjusting to finish with precision with his left leg was masterful. The team’s new tactical formation with Endrick forming a pair with another striker did the boy a lot of good, with more space to use his incredible speed and skill. Before, Endrick had a fixed positioning, as a center forward, with his back to the goal, or as a winger.

Saying that Abel Ferreira should have chosen Endrick as a starter a while ago is an unreasonable criticism. On the contrary, Abel acted correctly in preserving the young man, as he entered during the game and generally performed poorly.

Endrick’s performance against Botafogo could become a milestone, the beginning of a phenomenal career, which will soon continue at Real Madrid, already signed. But it is still too early to predict how far he will go. There will be many stones on the way.

I saw and experienced spectacular reactions in football. In 1966, in the Brazilian Cup final, Pelé’s Santos, the best team in the world, won 2-0 at Pacaembu and, in the second half, Cruzeiro won 3-2.

The big changes in the scoreboard and many other spectacular and unexpected events occur for countless reasons, known and unknown, foreseen and surprising. Trying to explain the inexplicable with a single reason, no matter how good the arguments, is a superb and fallacious attempt.

On Thursday, during the game between São Paulo and Cruzeiro, Alison was preparing to be substituted when another player was injured and he had to continue. Alison passed the winning goal for 1-0. Chance was present again. Cruzeiro, once again, played well and lost because they didn’t score a goal.

“Everything seems easy and connected when we win, everything seems dispersed and difficult when we lose. However, it is so small that we win and lose. The final whistle violently stabilizes what, throughout the game, seems like a catastrophic river of a thousand possibilities, to drag us along with it”. (Nuno Ramos).

In my life I have had several phases of trying to explain everything. When I was an athlete I only understood a few moves after matches. He performed it without knowing and without understanding. It is unconscious knowledge. I knew, but I didn’t know that I knew.

When I graduated in medicine and became a professor, I thought I could explain all the symptoms and details that occurred with patients. Over time, I realized that the more I studied, worked and knew, the more I needed to learn.

As a commentator, especially on television, because I was more exposed and evaluated by viewers, I tried to explain everything that happened in a game. Football is very complex, we are the ones who try to simplify it with rationalizations. Worse is not having anything to explain. Even worse is explaining without knowing. Sometimes we give too much importance to facts that have little or no importance.

“Those who have studied explain light and darkness, give classes about the stars and the firmament, but they understand nothing about the Universe and existence, because understanding is very different in explaining and almost always the two walk separately” (João Ubaldo Ribeiro , the blue albatross).

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