Atlético’s Victory Against Internacional Brings Relief to Club Amidst Recent Struggles

Atlético’s 2-1 victory against Internacional brought great relief to the club’s week. After 3 rounds without winning – defeats to Palmeiras, Vitória and a draw with Fortaleza – Galo won the 3 points and rose in the Brazilian Championship rankings.

After the match, Milito spoke about the triumph and highlighted some of his team’s performance: “It was a very difficult game. We played a great game, where we tried to neutralize Internacional. But we always tried to win the game. I really liked the players’ behavior, their courage. We believed until the end to get the victory. We did it in the last play of the game! But it was a balanced game, where at times we had to defend well and at others, attack.”he spoke.

The Argentine coach also explained the formation of the team he sent onto the field:

Like I said, we knew we needed to defend and attack well. To attack, we had to have players with attacking characteristics. To defend we use a fixed line of 4 players, with Mariano, Igor Rabello, Fuchs and Scarpa. We still had a contention player, Battaglia and in front of him Zaracho, as far as he was able to play. Then we had Paulo Vitor enter, and I was very happy with his return and his performance. Besides them, Paulinho. So, they would have 3 players in the middle and so would we. With a defensive player like Battaglia, a “mixed” player like Zaracho and an attacking player like Paulinho.

And he added:

I put Hulk up front, Palacios on the right, who helped Mariano a lot defend against Wanderson and Renê. Cadu on the left. When we had the ball, the idea was to leave Cadu inside, giving Scarpa more space.

The bad news for Milito ended up being two more guaranteed absences for next Sunday’s game (30), when Galo hosts Atlético-GO at Arena MRV. Gustavo Scarpa and Bruno Fuchs received their third yellow card and are suspended.

Without Scarpa, who was being “improvised” on the left side, Milito spoke about whether he already knows what he is going to do, thinking about a substitute: “I haven’t thought about it yet. Now we’ll have time to think about it and we know we’ll have to improvise, since we don’t have left-footed players. But we have players in the squad and someone will play there. But right now, I don’t know yet.”he responded.

Check out other topics answered by the coach:

Hulk’s importance to the team…

Different players, the stars, show up when the team needs them most. Always! Hulk, with all the joy of his fatherhood, was able to play. I admire his effort, making this long trip, training and being available to play for 90 minutes, being decisive in the last play of the match. All of this is very valuable! When your captain has this kind of behavior, everyone will follow suit. He is a great example, in addition to being a great player.

Highlight for young players, such as Matheus Mendes, Rômulo, Cadu and Paulo Vitor…

My confidence in Matheus has always been the same. It didn’t increase today. It was the same against Palmeiras, before and after. I watch him train, I know what a goalkeeper I have. I was very happy with the performance he had. Conceding 4 goals is not good for any team, much less for a goalkeeper. But he had no responsibility for those goals (against Palmeiras). Today he was very decisive for the final result. I was also very happy with Cadu, who scored a goal, I was very happy for Rômulo, with the goal he scored at the end that gave us the victory. I was also very happy with Paulo Vitor’s return.

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2024-06-27 21:01:27
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