O lawn synthetic of Botafogo no Nilton Santos Stadium became a question for Bruno Lage at the press conference after the 3-1 victory over Internationalthis Saturday at Brazilian championship. The coach avoided controversy and was direct.
– Better a good synthetic than a bad lawn. Players have adapted perfectly. I was curious to notice, it is a different synthetic. When I walked in for the first time, on the day of the presentation, usually the rubber is black, not this one, it’s cork. What is nice to see is that the home team plays fantastic football. The three games here, against Coritiba, Guaraní and Internacional, were of quality, with countless scoring opportunities, we scored nine goals – highlighted Bruno Lage.
The alvinegro commander also analyzed how the victory over Internacional was.
– We had a good start to the game. The man I took out at halftime, I have confidence in everyone, Lucas (Fernandes) came from an injury period, played a game in the middle of the week and went to the limit. The plan was to have one or two players ready to come in and keep the intensity at a high level. Inter played a fantastic game against River Plate, we felt that they might eventually want to continue, not least because there were three days between games. We felt it. We entered at a high level, just like what Cruzeiro did to us, the man behind Eduardo had three good scoring opportunities. Then comes Internacional’s goal, ten minutes in which the team wants to solve the problem quickly. After 35 minutes, the team started to grow again and had more opportunities, both of them Eduardo’s. We finished the first part to grow. Luis is coming off an injury period, he made a good fourth entry, we felt he would be the man to come in and keep the game going at a high pace. Inter lowered the lines, we needed to have a man (Janderson) to push even more and give space to Eduardo. We were able to pass on a lot of trust, which they already have in each other. If we kept the game high, the opportunities would continue to appear and we wouldn’t have as much unhappiness, as in the first half, in not scoring a goal – he summarized.
2023-08-13 12:18:00
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