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Reacting without acting like Uribe is never enough to get on the Line (Estoril-FC Porto chronicle)

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Reacting without acting like Uribe is never enough to get on the Line (Estoril-FC Porto chronicle)

It was a game, but at the same time it was anything but a game. Because Estoril has been one of the teams with the best start to the season. Because it was in Amoreira that FC Porto started with a big turnaround in the second part of the march towards the conquest of the last Championship. Because the margin for error after the defeat in Vila do Conde in a Primeira Liga that until now has had no room for slippage was small (and the matches with Sp. Braga and Benfica are close). Besides all that, it was more than a game.

Estoril vs FC Porto. Rodrigo and André Franco play early (0-0, 3′)

It was more than a match for everything that happened in the Champions League thrashing suffered at Dragão against Club Brugge. It wasn’t the biggest setback of the Sérgio Conceição era, but it felt like one. It wasn’t a decisive defeat but he gained almost that substance. More than that, and as insiders said during the week, it was the exhibition that had less DNA from FC Porto since Sérgio Conceição took charge of the Blue and Whites in the summer of 2017. The 26 kilometers run together by Uribe and Eustáquio in midfield showed that there was no lack of desire, but leaving aside the individual and collective mistakes (very evident in all Belgian goals). ), the way the team did not have the usual aggressiveness with and without possession and passed the second ball was abnormal.

It was more than a match for everything that happened after the Champions League thrashing suffered at Dragão against Club Brugge. The attack in the Museum area on Sérgio Conceição’s wife’s car, where his sons Rodrigo (now in the main team) and Moisés also followed, had a special and natural impact on the coach, but did not pass by the side of the group, aware of the importance of the coach who has won three Championships and eight titles in five years in the squad and of the seriousness of everything that happened that night of terror for the Blue and Whites. Even without feeling that it was possible to ask to leave the club, everyone knew that this episode will not be forgotten any time soon by those who lived through it.

It was more than a match for everything that would have to happen after the Champions League thrashing suffered at Dragão against Club Brugge. When it was thought that the defeat against Rio Ave had been a warning that would mark the rest of the season, in which Sérgio Conceição considered that it had been his worst game since he returned to the club now as coach (something that the reception of the Goal by the Belgians), the failed night in the home debut of the main European club competition once again revealed the worst face of a FC Porto that continues to look for lost references, either in the center of defense without Mbemba, or in the midfield without vitina. After Vila do Conde, there were several changes in the team; now, there was this “suspect”.

Due to physical or mere management issues (only at the end of the game it will be possible to verify), Pepe was left out of the call in a squad of 24 players, making way again for the praised Fábio Cardoso. But the changes did not stop there, not to mention only the meeting with Club Brugge as a reference for the election: Rodrigo Conceição debuted as a starter instead of João Mário, David Carmo and Zaidu remained in the team, the field of midfielders was the same. André Franco was the novelty instead of Galeno and Taremi returned to team up with Evanilson and Otávio was no longer there. Four name changes, one requested change in attitude and view of the game. And that was the point.

In the first part, little or nothing changed. Defensive errors continued to be a constant (and the consequences could be worse), the offensive game was almost nil and the reaction was only on paper with an Estoril always capable of controlling every moment. So, more with the heart than with the head, there was at least an attitude of seeking more. With two shots on the plate, with tight saves by Dani Figueira, with a penalty saved in stoppage time converted by Taremi to emerge as the lesser evil of what happened. In the midst of all this, Uribe was saved. Pepê also had some important phases of growth for the team, Rodrigo Conceição tried to give depth and Taremi. He played the usual game between the lines but he was the captain trying to set an example that many did not want to follow. If the Porto team did not enter the Line, the midfielder tried to row against this phase.

The match started immediately with a longer pass from Diogo Costa to Zaidu that seemed to call all the ghosts of the midweek but that image would not have corresponded later even if neither team had even scored a shot on goal. With Pepê playing more open inside and André Franco dropping more on the right but appearing occasionally on the left, FC Porto managed to have more of the ball, projecting both full-backs with the depth that the team asks for when playing without full-backs, but the only play of relative danger was a long ball placed on the back of Taremi who did not even try to aim at the goal and lost possession when trying to cushion Evanilson (9 ‘). Estoril, on the other hand, always faithful to the way of playing, tried to build from behind, “froze” the game in possession but he couldn’t find Erison.

The first shot of the game would come almost halfway through the first half, with Rodrigo Martins taking advantage of a quick transition that caught the Blue and Whites off balance to shoot very close to Diogo Costa’s post (21′). Shortly after, Evanilson let the ball hit too hard after a through ball and Dani Figueira was in time to clear it out. The game began to move, also with Rodrigo Conceição stretching the game on the right, almost giving his teammates the order to have another aggressive attack in the last third. However, no one “heard” that message. So much so that the chances went to Estoril, with Diogo Costa taking Erison’s goal on the first shot before the Tiago Gouveia’s reload to the post (30′) and then defending another attempt by Gouveia (32′).

Sérgio Conceição ducked his head and put his hand in as if wondering how it was possible to have so many defensive facilities for the lineup, but Pepê finally managed to snatch more play down the left for one last shot until the break with one more at pre-Club Brugge level, with André Franco taking the first (weak) shot to the figure of Dani Figueira and the VAR confirming two goals annulled for offside, an own goal by Pedro Álvaro (34 ‘) and a combination between Taremi and Zaidu (36 ‘) . However, defensive errors again penalized the dragons, with David Carmo barely clearing a header, Tiago Gouveia receives more to the right behind Zaidu and a cross shot for the 1-0 with which they would reach the break against an increasingly incredulous Sérgio Conceição (41’).

Contrary to what happened in the Champions League, Sérgio Conceição opted not to make changes at half-time and saw the team enter the game much better, with a dangerous cross from Evanilson without finishing, Pepê holding more in the game and Taremi hitting the beam hard in a shot in the central zone (51 ‘). Even so, that offensive projection in search of the tie also had another side that was used in the best way by Estoril, who managed to put Rodrigo Martins to gain an advantage on the left in a transition against Diogo Costa’s center to prevent Francisco Geraldes . 2-0 (55′). With everything else broken, chances and goals could come from any of the goals despite a clear Blue and Whites tie with an Evanilson header to the post (65’).

Galeno was Sérgio Conceição’s first option to come off the bench, who dispensed with André Franco (a very weak game in his debut) to design a 4v2x4 with the ball that intended to create other problems for the Estorilista defense. And it was even the Brazilian who had the first threat after entering the field, with that traditional movement from outside to inside until the shot fell into the hands of Dani Figueira (68′). Another warning for the formation of Línea, which had stopped connecting sectors up to the three forwards as in the first half and which worsened after Ndiaye’s expulsion due to accumulation (76′). And the match ended in the center of the Estoril field, with Veron heading the post after Pepê’s free kick (79′), Dani Figueira avoiding Toni Martínez’s equalizer (81′), Uribe seeing a shot diverted to pass near the crossbar (84 ‘). ) and Taremi receiving the tie already at the end of the sales, in a VAR penalty that was worth the final 1-1 (90 + 9 ‘).

Source: Observadora

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