Cuca: Goal wrongly disallowed, but happy with Santos draw at Mineirão | OneFootball

This Sunday, Santos drew 1-1 with Cruzeiro at Mineirão, in the eighth round of the Brazilian Championship. After the match, coach Cuca, who made his return debut for the Alvinegro Praiano, said in a press conference that the goal scored by Barreal in the 50th minute, which would have given Peixe the win, was wrongly disallowed by VAR.

“VAR made a mistake”

“I saw the goal on the big screen and started celebrating right away. Besides the grass cut, there are other images and I still don’t understand why this goal was disallowed. At most, he was on the same line. And then our strategy would have been perfect, we would have won a tough game away from home,” he said.

“We had a wrongly disallowed goal, Wagner Reway threw away what had been a perfect refereeing performance. What can you do, VAR made a mistake and life goes on. We have to try to improve in every way, recover those who didn’t play so we can come back stronger,” Cuca added.

The coach was asked whether leaving Mineirão with a point was a positive or negative factor for the team. “Both. It’s a point to celebrate, in a decisive game, but it was a regular goal that we scored. He wasn’t offside, just give the goal, I don’t understand why it was disallowed, but it’s fine.”

Regarding the team’s performance, the coach admitted that Santos started the game nervously, but saw improvement in the second half. “We’re lacking calmness and better conditions to build from the back. When we made one or two mistakes at the start of the game, we were running too much risk. I put Thaciano in to help with that and the second half was much more balanced,” he concluded.

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The last job of Alexi Stival was as head coach of Atlético-MG. The 62-year-old coach left Galo in August last year and has been a free agent since then. For Santos, Cuca has 26 wins, 23 draws, and 24 losses in 73 matches. He led the team during their runner-up campaign in the Libertadores in 2020/21.

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