Headed goals are also beautiful – 01/08/2023 – Tostão

On the morning of this Wednesday (2) we will know if the selection goes to the round of 16 of the Women’s World Cup.

Over the weekend, between the many matches of the Brasileirão, I watched the match between Barcelona and Real Madrid, in the USA, a friendly preparation for the season. Ancelotti, who doesn’t want to talk about the Brazilian team, changed Real’s traditional tactical design. Instead of the classic 4-3-3, with four defenders, a trio in the middle, two wingers and a center forward, the team played in the 4-4-2, with a line of four in the midfield and a pair of attackers formed by Vinicius Junior and Rodrygo.

Vinicius Junior didn’t act like he always did on the left wing. By having several excellent midfielders and not having a good substitute for striker Benzema, Ancelotti is looking for an alternative to climb the best. It didn’t work well. Vinicius Junior did not feel comfortable. If the coach repeats the formation and it works, it could even be a good option for the Brazilian team, with Vinicius Junior and Neymar forming the attacking duo.

This Wednesday, for Libertadores, Atlético-MG and Palmeiras make a classic in Mineirão. Palmeiras won again and scored several headers in crossed balls, while Atlético-MG, under the command of Felipão, has not won the last eight games.

Headed goals are increasingly frequent in Brazilian and world football. The balls crossed by Raphael Veiga, strong, curved, and without going up too much, are exquisite, even more so with good headers. Head goals are also beautiful. Who attacks, runs, takes momentum and heads over the stationary defender. Headed goals, like the two scored by France against Brazil, were much more due to the French women’s virtues than to the Brazilian women’s failures.

Individually, Palmeiras’ starting line-up is clearly superior to Atlético-MG’s. In almost all positions, Palmeiras has players that are among the main players in Brazilian football. Palmeiras lacks better reserves for some positions.

Felipão, in the first game in charge of Atlético-MG, changed the position of Paulinho, who started playing on the left, attacking and coming back to score. It didn’t work out. The coach returned with Paulinho to the middle, forming a duo with Hulk, and the team did not do well. In recent games, Felipão changed again by changing an offensive midfielder for another defensive midfielder. It also didn’t work out. Will the coach do something different this Wednesday?

For the Libertadores, Flamengo will face Olímpia, from Paraguay, on Thursday (3), at Maracanã. In the 2-1 victory against Atlético-MG, Flamengo went from euphoria to hell, because of the physical trainer’s aggression towards Pedro, who refused to warm up.

Pedro deserves punishment, but the attitude of Sampaoli’s assistant was absurd, a horror. He’s already been fired. Pedro, who played in the Cup and is the team’s top scorer this year, is dissatisfied and should be traded, especially as there are very high proposals to hire him. On the other hand, the player will be greatly missed if Gabigol and or Bruno Henrique cannot play.

Palmeiras, Flamengo, Atlético-MG and all Brazilian teams, with the exception of Botafogo, have fluctuated. What is Botafogo’s secret? If the clichés were repeated, I would say that the team is very objective, happy and united on and off the field, that they play every match as if they were the last, and several others. I prefer the words of the poet Fernando Pessoa, that many things in life have no explanation, but existence.

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