Brazil: Vinicius Jr and Co Humiliated from Argentina – Analysis
The prolonged humiliation of Tuesday did not leave the blue point.
In the game after play, the team seemed uneven, without clear strategies for the progress of the ball along the field and suffering from the possibility of being both overcome and outdated in the central midfield.
Individual talents have paper on cracks – like Thursday, when a special Vinicius jr of the arrest time gave them a victory over Colombia that their game did not really deserve.
But it cannot always happen.
And if the film is bad, especially if the cast is impressive, the director must be responsible.
There is a crisis in Brazilian coaching. It is difficult to produce coaches when there is no time to train and no work safety. This is the reality of homemade Brazilian football and helps to explain why almost all successful coaches in the country are now foreigners – Argentine or, in particular, Portuguese.
The National Chapter – For now – Dorival JR is a product of the home game, with more than four decades of experience as a player and coach.
But on the international phase he presents himself as a decent man completely out of his depth.
Did you really think he could travel to Argentina and play two men in the central midfield? Why not fall deep and create space for the counterattack, how did he do a year ago against England in Wembley? And when fresh heads were needed, his team came across a bag of nerves, all too willing to be involved in economic spaces.
Of the three duties of the coach – choose the team, determines the strategy and sets the emotional tone – Dorival has failed disorderly, and it is very difficult to see how it can maintain its job.
If it should be replaced, it would seem to be two options. One is to become foreigners: the Portuguese coach Jorge Jesus would be a strong candidate. The other would be to accelerate the left back of Chelsea, a man of great intelligence who started his coaching career with the giants of Rio Flamengo.
