Jorge Jesus provoked a great discussion in Brazil in the last days, when he pointed out Flamengo as a team that would be able to fight for one of the top places in the Premier League. The statement of the Portuguese coach I had to talk, provoked several reactions and even led Yahoo Esportes to do a simulation on … Football Manager, a video game known as the most reliable and complete database in the world of football. The result, this, will not leave JJ there very satisfied …
Now, using an update with the transfers from the last market and putting Flamengo in place of Aston Villa, the aforementioned Brazilian website decided to move on to the experience, letting the game define everything that happened (basically, the player assumed the role “go on vacation”). He advanced until the end of the season and the outcome was very different from what Jesus predicted, since Flamengo ended only in 11th, with 49 points, 19 of the fifth place, occupied by Arsenal. In the cups, the scenario was also not very positive, with eliminations in the third round of the League Cup, at the feet of Middlesbrough, and in the ‘eighth’ of the FA Cup, against Arsenal. Finally, in the fight with the Big Six, Flamengo only managed to add 5 points out of 35 possible …
This was at a time when, to make matters worse, Jesus was even fired before Christmas, condemned for the bad results he was having – he was eighth, with seven wins, four draws and six losses – and was later replaced by the mythical Sam Allardyce. Now, with the psychological lash, Fla did not do much better, since until the end of the year he only won another seven duels, losing eleven and drawing three. It should be noted that Allardyce also did not reach the end, having been fired in April, to be replaced by Cesare Prandelli.
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