Midfield is the link between what is planned and what is executed – 12/16/2023 – Tostão

If Fluminense wins on Monday and Manchester City wins on Tuesday, the two teams will play in the Club World Cup final on the 22nd. It is the most anticipated game.

Haaland is doubtful, and De Bruyne remains out. Despite not having a good time and being fourth in the English Championship, City won all six matches in the group stage of the Champions League. He is the favorite to win the world tournament.

Fluminense and Manchester City are teams that always like to have the ball, exchange passes and involve the opponent. This stance began at Barcelona, ​​led by Guardiola, who drank from Cruyff’s fountain. The strategy has spread throughout the world and is becoming more common every day. Improves the beauty and quality of football. To have the ball, you need to recover it quickly, and City does this better than Fluminense and all other teams.

Flu and City have important similarities and differences. The English team plays with two wide wingers or a midfielder and a winger on each side, which forces the full-backs to mark them closely, leaving spaces between the full-back and the defender, where City usually makes triangulations with the team’s participation. winger, full-back and midfielder. The plays end with Haaland’s shots, usually inside the box.

As City advances and presses a lot as a block to recover the ball, Fluminense, if they face them, will be able to use the spaces left behind the forward defenders. Thus, the English team has conceded goals, more than in previous seasons.

Midfielder Rodri is the center of City’s plays. He initiates and organizes the moves. When the team is unable to penetrate the opponent’s area, the ball returns to Rodri, who restarts the game with quick and precise passes. Fluminense should guard him more closely, in case the two teams clash in the final.

If Fluminense faces City in the final and wins, it won’t mean that Flu is superior to City nor that Fernando Diniz is a genius and has tactically tied Guardiola up. It’s just a game. Every now and then, City are beaten by inferior teams. In the same way, if Flu is a disappointment, loses in the semi-final or is beaten by City, it will not mean that it is not a good team nor that Fernando Diniz is an excessively hyped and glamorized coach.

Manchester City and Real Madrid are the two best teams in Europe and the world. At Real, young Englishman Bellingham, a current sensation, resembles the exceptional Kaká. Both are attacking midfielders, tall, have long strides and reach the goal from midfield with ease. Bellingham has a larger repertoire, with more dribbles and special effects. Kaká didn’t dribble. He played the ball up front and always arrived first to finish with extreme efficiency. Bellingham has more collective talent for moving without the ball throughout the attack.

Kaká, deservedly, was voted the best in the world, at a time when there was no Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. This year, the candidates are Messi, Mbappé and Haaland. Next year, other candidates for the throne will certainly emerge. Life goes’ Round.

I would like to see more midfielders and midfielders competing for the best in the world. Modric won the title years ago. As important as shining in attack and scoring a large number of goals is being an organizer, initiator of offensive plays, with a wide vision of the field and with quick and accurate passes. The goal starts in defense, is created in midfield and ends in attack. The midfield is the link between what is planned and what is executed.

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