Life is not statistics, says Diniz about marks in the national team – 11/22/2023 – Sport

Under the command of Fernando Diniz, the Brazilian team lost this Tuesday (22) for the first time in history a home game in the World Cup qualifiers. They also suffered an unprecedented third consecutive defeat in the qualifiers. It is only in sixth place in the dispute. And he doesn’t know what it’s like to win for four games.

Despite this, the coach believes that the statistics do not reflect his work at the helm of Brazil, although he admits that during his tenure the team “fluctuated between good and bad moments”.

“In life, you can’t take and put a statistic. Think it’s just statistics. If it’s just statistics, everything is very bad, but we need to analyze it as a process of change”, said the coach after the defeat to Argentina , 1-0, at Maracanã. “Today we had three players who played in the last World Cup, while Argentina had an almost complete team.”

For the commander, the Brazilian team deserved to have left the field with a victory on Tuesday night. “We had a similar number of shots, but Brazil faced much more danger than Argentina. I found the result quite unfair today.”

Before the defeat to the Argentines, the team had negative results against Colombia and Uruguay, in addition to having drawn at home with Venezuela.

With seven points added, they are only in sixth place in the Qualifiers, the last one that guarantees a place in the next World Cup, while Argentina leads the dispute, with 15 points.

It may have been Diniz’s last game in charge of the national team in an official game, since in the first half of 2024 Brazil will only have friendlies.

After that, the CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation) hopes to announce the arrival of Italian Carlo Ancelotti, currently at Real Madrid, as its new commander. Although the agreement was never confirmed by the professional himself, the entity claims that it has an agreement with him.

For the Qualifiers, the Canarian team will only play again in September of next year, when they will host Ecuador, in a location yet to be defined.