Defense fails and Corinthians loses to Del Valle in the debut of Luxembourg – 02/05/2023 – Sport

Hired as an emergency solution, with the mission of organizing the squad and giving new life to the Corinthians team, Vanderlei Luxemburgo had a sample this Tuesday (2nd) of the difficulty of the challenge he took on when accepting the team’s invitation alvinegro.

Playing at home, with the Neo Química Arena practically full, the Parque São Jorge team lost to Independiente Del Valle by 2-1 and dropped to third place in Group E, with only three points in three matches played.

In addition to the defeat by the Ecuadorians, the black and white team had also lost to Argentinos Juniors, in Itaquera, by 1-0.

While the Argentines lead the group, with seven points, the club from Ecuador reached six and is in second place. Corinthians will still face the two opponents again, but now away from home.

In front of his fans, he will only play for the competition again in the last round, against Liverpool, from Uruguay, last in the group, with just one point — in the first round, Corinthians beat the Uruguayans, 3 to 0.

In the Luxembourg debut, the Corinthian team again presented the same problems that led to the “relegation” of Fernando Lázaro again to the auxiliary role and that also marked the short passage of Cuca at the head of the squad.

After leading the team in two games, the coach from Santa Catarina could not resist the pressure due to the renewed repercussions of the case in which he was convicted of sexual harassment in 1987, in Switzerland, when he was a Grêmio midfielder.

He left Parque São Jorge after managing Corinthians in the defeat to Goiás, by 3 to 1, for Brasileiro, and in the triumph over Remo, when the team from São Paulo advanced to the round of 16 of the Copa do Brasil on penalties.

At the age of 70, Luxemburgo started this Tuesday his third passage through the alvinegro team. In the first, he was Brazilian champion in 1998. He won Paulista in 2001 in the last one. His contract runs until December.

After directing the team in just one training session, he was unable to correct the defensive errors that marked the last black and white performances.

Who knew how to take advantage of this very well was striker Lautaro Díaz, scorer of two goals for Del Valle, in the 22nd minute of the first half, with a strong finish, and in the 7th minute, when Maycon made a mistake, backed the ball badly and gave as a gift for the Argentine player to score again.

Róger Guedes was the one who scored the alvinegro goal, at 35 of the initial stage. The hosts still hit two balls on the crossbar and one on the crossbar throughout the game, but were unable to seek a tie.

At the end of the match, frustrated, the Corinthian fans shouted: “I miss when Corinthians played with will.”