D’Alessandro admits Internacional’s slump before Grenal: “We must change” | OneFootball

On this Thursday, three days before the Grenal, D’Alessandro, sporting director and idol of Internacional, gave a press conference and acknowledged the team's difficult moment in the season. The former athlete highlighted the team's two eliminations this year: to Fluminense in the Copa do Brasil and to Flamengo in the Libertadores.

"We have time to recover, I don't know if we will reach the expectation we created at the beginning of the year, in January, or the expectation we created with that surge at the end of last season. What we have to acknowledge is that we had two eliminations that were hard to swallow, even though we recognize the size of the opponents. We always have to acknowledge that in football, over the course of a season, we will lose, but it's the way that I think is much harder to accept. Losing a game is part of it, but the manner and form we cannot negotiate, we never negotiated that," he said.

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D’Alessandro also recalled the statements of José Olavo Bisol, vice-president of Internacional, about the need to change the team's attitude in the matches.

"I'm already making the connection with the statement of our vice-president Bisol, who said exactly that, and it was something recognized by the players in the post-game against Palmeiras. Recognize that we need to do more, that we need to change our attitude, that we need to train more and this was recognized by the athletes," he added.

Internacional, coming from a 4-1 rout over Palmeiras, returns to the fields this Sunday (21), against Grêmio, for the 24th round of the Brasileirão. The ball rolls at 5:30 pm (Brasília time), at Beira-Rio.

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