By Matheus Trunk
O Palm trees He suffered his second defeat at Paulistão this Sunday night. alviverde lost to Botafogo-SP 1-0 due to a goalkeeper error Marcelo Lomba at the beginning of the second stage. It was a game with a poor technical level on both sides. At the press conference, the coach Abel Ferreira took responsibility for the result and complained three times about the condition of the Nicnet Arena pitch. “It’s my responsibility for the players not playing the football we liked on a terrible pitch for both teams.”
Abel He looked tired at the press conference. It didn’t have the same intensity as usual. He complained about the lack of reinforcements. In this window input, the Palm trees lost six players and only signed one player: the midfielder Marlon Freitas that came from Botafogo. “I’ve already said that beans and rice are very simple and satisfy a lot of people’s hunger. So you don’t need to be smart to understand which players left and which ones we need. It’s about figuring it out: who left? Goalkeeper, defender, winger, midfielder…”
The Portuguese also commented on the fact that he had an extra player for almost the entire second half and was unable to take advantage of the opportunities in the match. He assumed it was a poor performance from the team. “We weren’t creative enough, but that’s football. Taking responsibility for a bad performance from the players who started and those who came on later, I think we had a bad performance.”
Young players
Several players from the green base had chances in today’s match. The defender Benedettithe attacker Riquelme Filippithe midfielder Allanthe attacker Lie down and the attacker Into it They are athletes trained in Palmeiras’ youth divisions and played against the Ribeirão team. Most performed below expectations. Abel Ferreira highlighted that he is providing opportunities to observe these athletes. “Understand the players we have and what we have to work on in them. We know that’s what we have to do. If I don’t do it now, when will I do it?”
The coach avoided blaming any athlete on the squad for the defeat. Abel Ferreira he also assumed that the opponent had a better performance in the confrontation against Palmeiras and deserved the result. He praised the Botafogo-SP of Claudio Tencati. “It was fiercer, more intense, more mature, more competitive…”.
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Two rounds left
Even after the terrible result, Alviverde remains in second place in the State with twelve points. THE Novorizontino Grêmio is in first place. There are two rounds left to end the first phase of the competition. THE Palm trees still faces the Corinthians next Sunday at 8:30 pm at Neo Química Arena and ends the phase playing against Guarani on February 15th at Arena Crefisa Barueri. The top eight placed advance to the quarterfinal stage.
