Alisson is absent for the first time in the Brasileirão (Photo: Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images)
Now midfielder Alisson’s phase is one of the best in São Paulo. Many are even starting to ask the player for a chance in the Brazilian team. The fact is that the player became Tricolor’s true ‘engine’ on the field.
After a difficult time in his life, where he suffered from depression, Alisson was reinvented in football by Lucas Silvestre, Dorival Jr.’s brother, who suggested that he act as a midfielder. It worked, a lot. The athlete rediscovered himself in midfield and never lost his starting position again.
In 2024, 30 matches have already been played, 28 of which as a starter. No one played as much in the year for Tricolor as Alisson. He is Zubeldía’s undisputed starter and has never been replaced by the Argentine.
In the Brasileirão, Alisson also reigns supreme in participations. He has played in ten games so far for São Paulo, but will have his first absence in the national tournament. The midfielder is serving an automatic suspension against Vasco for having received his third yellow card in the defeat against Cuiabá in the last round.
His numbers in the competition are impressive. Alisson is the 5th best player in successful passes per match in this Brasileirão. With the exception of the defenders ahead on the list, he is only behind Martinelli, from Fluminense, among forward midfield names.
Alisson has an incredible average of 58.7 correct passes per match, which gives an average of 90% accuracy.
He is the player who takes the ball from the defense field to the Tricolor attack with speed and quality. In addition to also standing out in marking. He has an average of 5 balls recovered per game in the Brasileirão. With Zubeldía, he sometimes acts as the first man of containment in the middle.
The absence against Vasco is a headache for Luis Zubeldía, who has few options for his position in the squad, as Pablo Maia recovers from surgery and Bobadilla defends Paraguay in the Copa América.
Thus, the midfielder duo should be formed by Luiz Gustavo, rested in the last round, and Galoppo, who has been gaining more chances in the position where he prefers, but has not given good results on the field.
Tricolor still has a young duo from the base in their training at the CT, Iba Ly, a Senegalese with a lot of physical vigor promoted to professional this year, and Negrucci, a second midfielder with more technique and vision of the game. Both, however, have not yet been used by Zubeldía.
Even if he wants to improvise in the needy Tricolor sector, the coach can move Rodrigo Nestor or Michel Araújo to perform the duties of midfielder, something they have done at other times in their career. Zubeldía can also switch to a formation with three defenders, which he already used in his recent spell at São Paulo.
The fact is that São Paulo will miss one of its main players this season, at Luis Zubeldía’s most ‘critical’ moment in charge. Tricolor hasn’t won in three games and hasn’t scored in two of them. Seeks to get back on the path to victory
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2024-06-22 15:50:37
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