Marcão sees Fluminense learning in reaching Libertadores semi-final | OneFootball

Fluminense will play in the Copa Libertadores semifinals for the third time in its history. The team lost 2-1 to Platense on the night of Tuesday the 15th, but secured qualification on aggregate. Flu won 2-0 at the Maracanã and will now chase its second Copa Libertadores title.

After the match, coach Marcão spoke about the game. He acknowledged the club’s poor first half, but saw improvement after the halftime talk. In the coach’s view, Fluminense can take a lot of lessons from the clash in Argentina.

“The first half ended up favoring them more. They managed to open the scoring. But at halftime, after a good talk, we balanced a little more what we wanted to do, what Fluminense is. We managed to create some plays, relieve a bit of their pressure, play our game, we got the goal, and that is extremely important,” said Marcão.

“This serves as a lesson so that, in the next matches, we can be closer to what we want to do rather than playing the opponent’s game,” he said.

Marcão gave his thoughts on the next opponent. LDU and Palmeiras play this Wednesday

“Another great match, regardless of which team comes through. Palmeiras is a classic matchup, we’ve played them many times, always in great battles. Against LDU we’ve also had some finals, but we are strong and confident. We got through another tough challenge here today, but that only makes us stronger. Regardless of who comes through, Fluminense will be strong enough to play two more good matches.”

Hércules’ performance

About Hércules, as you mentioned, he was coming off a spell of inactivity, he is a player who also needs match rhythm. He helped, he helped a lot, off the ball, he’s a big player too. We knew about this difficulty and, in the end, he felt it a little, so we had to make a change because of that. But he is a talented player, a big, physical player, and he will help us a lot during this final stretch.

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