After victory of Athletico Paranaense for 2 to 1 against Athletico-MG, by Grupo G da Liberadores, Casagrande praised the Hurricane, especially the performance of Bento, Vitor Roque and Terans. The former player and commentator also spoke well of the arena of the lowland and the red-black crowd. Videos of the throws and goals of the match you can watch by clicking here.
In his column at UOL, Casagrande began praising the Arena and the Twist:
The Arena da Baixada is beautiful, with a crowd always excited and fervent. It's so beautiful to see this crowded arena.
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Soon after, he began praising the organization and aggressiveness of the Athletico Paranaense and citing Vitor Roque as the great revelation of Brazilian football. But his main praises regarding the match that will make the Athletico sleep in the leadership of Group G of Liberators, is about the goalkeeper Benedict, putting immediately in the title of his column: Vítor Roque and Terans score, but the hero of Athletico was the goalkeeper Benedict.
Goalkeeper Benedict, getting everything and a little more.
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The Arena da Baixada is beautiful, with a crowd always excited and fervent. It's so beautiful to see this crowded arena.
Speaking of the game, it started with defense failures, leaving the goalkeepers in the hole. But Hurricane is a more solid, organized and aggressive team, not to mention that it has as its centre the great revelation of Brazilian football, the boy Vitor Roque.
He's a ready player with good experience. He's only 19 and little marketing, which is no problem. He was wronged at last year's Brazilian Championship awards, because the real revelation was him.
On the first ball he had to attack Rooster's defense, he went up with all confidence and hit the cross, making 1 to 0 for Hurricane.
Then the game gave a balanced and space to play, despite the fact that the two teams were scoring pressure and forcing the error of passes.
Atlético-MG continued to suffer to create moves, even with Coudet's attempt to make a lighter and more mobile midfield, climbing Battaglia instead of Otávio.
But the biggest defect Rooster has been presenting is the lack of concentration at the beginning of the matches. He scored before the 10 minutes of play against Libertad and Vasco, losing both games, and took that goal again against Hurricane.
It has also been showing defensive fragility, with opponents taking advantage of this bad moment to put a greater aggressiveness.
Moving on with the game: in a dubious move with the referee and the VAR taking a lifetime to decide, but in the end it was marked the penalty correctly. The Uruguayan Terans hit well and did 2 to 0 for Athletico.
After that goal the game got a lot more intense, tense, fought, and with one there and here huge. The worst thing for Coach Coudet was that when Rooster made a move with the Hulk, leaving Paulinho in the face of the goal, the great goalkeeper Bento made a great defense, just as he did with a difficult battaglia kick.
This lack of focus at the start of the matches is being a serious problem for Atlético-MG, because in the past games the wear is being too great for having to chase the result all the time.
The Atlético-MG is an elongated, unapproached team with three distant blocks – defense, midfield and attack, without having a link between these blocks. There's a faster way out of the defense for half and without a lack of creativity, that is, nothing connects the attack.
Unlike this, the Paraná team is very compact. As soon as the player picks up the ball, two companions are already approaching to give pass alternatives. That gives a football team momentum.
Na primeira jogada que Hulk partiu do meio-campo em velocidade na direção do gol, o Paulinho, com uma ótima movimentação, ficou na cara do gol. O Galo diminuiu e isso acendeu o time mineiro, que começou a tomar conta do jogo. Criou outra chance em seguida mas, na minha opinião, tudo começou a melhorar com a entrada do Hyoran no lugar do lateral Dodô, com o Patrick indo fazer a lateral.
Isso deixou o Galo muito mais agressivo e criativo. O time se organizou melhor depois do gol e foi para cima para tentar o empate. Mas encontrou pela frente o fantástico goleiro Bento, pegando tudo e mais um pouco.
Foi uma jogaço e uma vitória maiúscula do Athletico. Já o Atlético-MG, apesar de ter feito um ótimo segundo tempo, perdeu mais uma partida tomando gols no início.
Assim não tem time que aguente, porque os jogadores se preparam e, em 30 minutos, já estão perdendo. O desgaste dobra para ficar correndo atrás do empate ao invés da vitória.
Se o Atlético-MG não arrumar esse foco inicial, não vai a lugar nenhum.
