Verdão’s coach highlighted the team’s competitive spirit
Palmeiras eliminated Novorizontino and reached the Paulistão final for the fifth consecutive time. The duel marked the return of fans to Allianz Parque after changing the synthetic pitch, and for Abel Ferreira the time away from home generated anxiety in the stands which turned into nervousness among the athletes on the pitch.
– We feel nervous from the outside, our fans are always waiting… And I ask for patience. They always hope to win 2, 3, 4. The games are different. Today we are the ones pushing for them after the goal. Until the goal, the players felt the nervousness coming from the outside – said Abel Ferreira, coach of Palmeiras, during a press conference.
Despite the difficulties imposed by Novorizontino, Abel Ferreira highlighted the mentality of the Palmeiras players during the match to reach another Paulistão final.
– Getting to the final, once again, seems very easy. In recent years there has been a common denominator: Palmeiras arrives! If he will win, I don’t know. If you win it’s normal. If you don’t win it’s a failure… But I don’t see things like that. This is what I promise, to have a competitive team to reach the final,” he said.
GAME ANALYSIS
I play hard. The FIFA data pause has positive aspects and less positive aspects, such as interrupting the pace at which we were going. 15 days without playing. This benefited them more than us, a well organized and intense team. And play without any responsibility. But we managed to overcome our opponent’s will.
ENDRICK
He has a star, he has the gift of scoring. Luckily he scored. We were afraid that he would get a blow to the thigh, but life is full of risks and we took them
SANTOS
Santos has this ambition, but I think Santos has a long year ahead of them, they will have to be protagonists in the second division. A well-assembled team, with expert and very well-trained players. Santos arrives with this desire and we will try to play a good match there to finish at home. On the other side there is a well-organised team, there are two beautiful midfielders. It’s a good team. It has the advantage of not having matches in the middle of the week
Source: Terra
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