Abel considers the victory fair and exalts the team’s spirit: “Leave your ego at home to serve Palmeiras” | palm trees

Cuiabá x Palmeiras – Best Moments

– I think we played a mature, intelligent game, at the home of an opponent who needed to win. There was a change of coach and they wanted to show him desire and quality. We played a good game, with patience. Today we face two opponents, Cuiabá and the heat, which we are not used to at this temperature. I think it was a fair victory – said the coach.

The Portuguese coach also highlighted the unity of the Palmeiras squad. In the penalty suffered by Estêvão, Rony caught the ball and looked like he was going to take the penalty. However, he gave Estêvão the chance to take charge.

The 17-year-old boy hit the corner and guaranteed Verdão the victory. All the teammates celebrated another goal from the Palmeiras jewel.

– As in other moments, I think it is a moment that reflects the spirit of this team, which really wants to win, score goals, but leaves its ego at home to serve Palmeiras. It was a beautiful gesture and reflects the spirit of this team.

In this Sunday’s match, Verdão scored more goals than they had scored in the last four Brasileirão games. Abel mentioned that the team could have done more and improved this statistic, but that it has been working on improving this season.

– In points, how are we? We are two points behind first, not bad. We play against difficult teams, we want to score a lot of goals, we scored two, but we could have scored one more with Endrick, who had a good transition with him and Luis. It’s a great pleasure to be their coach and who knows, maybe one day I’ll be able to coach them all together again – commented the coach.

– Football is like Formula 1, each game is like a different track, we are not the best attack, but we are one of the best defenses. Congratulations to those who have better attacks, but it is an aspect that we will improve and we will always train our finishing to be calm when opportunities arise. A football team is constantly improving – he added.

With this Sunday’s victory, Verdão reached eight points and took a leap forward in the Brasileirão table. The team is now in fifth place and is just two points behind Athletico-PR, the competition leader.

Palmeiras now focuses its attention on Conmebol Libertadores. Next Thursday, at 7pm, the team will face Liverpool, from Uruguay, away from home, in the fourth round of the group stage.

– We will have to analyze the opponent, we have some tactical nuances to attack, to defend as well. We have already played against them (Liverpool) and we will analyze it. I would be lying if I said that I thought about them, I was focused on Cuiabá, I haven’t prepared them yet, but the dedication is the same.

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