Danilo and Leonardo Jardim disagree over Flamengo issue in Brasileirão | OneFootball

Danilo and Leonardo Jardim had different opinions about the period after the mid-season break

Did the mid-season break help or hurt Flamengo? For coach Leonardo Jardim, the absence of called-up and injured players carried weight in this restart. Danilo, meanwhile, respects the coach’s opinion but prefers to think about the future, when Mengo will have 11 days to work with the full squad.

WHAT DID LEONARDO JARDIM SAY ABOUT THE MID-SEASON BREAK?

— We had ten players away (during the mid-season break). We delivered a certain level of performance up until the game against Coritiba. After that, we had one group training for more than 30 days and another group that was away, working with other coaches, other ideas, and other approaches, and that only just returned now —, Jardim said.

— After those players came back, we still haven’t been able to adjust the team, because we also didn’t have time to train. It was 10 days with three matches, or one week with three games. That’s why we have to make the most of this period we’ll have now to readjust the group as a whole, so that the actions are better understood and the quality of play returns to the level we showed in the first phase, when we had the entire squad available —, he added.

WHAT DID DANILO SAY?

Asked about the mid-season break in the mixed zone at Beira-Rio Stadium, Danilo respected Leonardo Jardim’s opinion. However, the center-back wants to “put an end to that excuse” and hopes to get Flamengo back on track after two straight draws in the Brasileirão.

— The Mister has his analysis, and we will always move in the direction of what the coach thinks, obviously. We’re together in the challenges, in whatever comes, but we also, as players, each one of us has to reconnect as soon as possible with Flamengo’s ideas —, Danilo said.— The Mister also needs, as quickly as possible, to bring all those ideas back together, because the decisive moments are coming and they wait for no one. But we have to look positively at what’s ahead. We have time now to work all together, so that excuse won’t exist anymore. And then we have to get back to the games showing what we showed in the first half of the season —, the defender added.

WHY WILL FLAMENGO HAVE TIME TO TRAIN?

The Brasileirão will only resume on the second weekend of August. Before that, the Copa do Brasil knockout matches will take place. That means Flamengo will have a week and a half to work. Rubro-Negro’s next match will be against Vitória on the 9th at the Maracanã.

WHAT IS THE AUTHOR’S OPINION?

— I don’t agree with Jardim on this issue of the called-up players needing time to readapt after following the national team coaches’ instructions. These players have been at Flamengo for many years. It’s not the two-month World Cup period that will make them lose that understanding —, said Pedro Paulo Catonho, journalist for Coluna do Fla.

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