Dorival rues Yuri’s penalty miss, questions Flamengo’s second goal | OneFootball

Coach Dorival Júnior classified Yuri Alberto's decision to take the penalty for Corinthians with a chip shot as "erroneous". Timão could have taken the lead in the score against Flamengo still in the first half this Sunday, but the number 9 missed the penalty. The striker even redeemed himself and opened the score, but the Alvinegro team suffered a comeback from the team from Rio.

Dorival, in fact, bitterly recalled the penalty missed by Memphis Depay in the match against Mirassol, valid for the eighth round of the Brazilian Championship. At the time, the score was still tied at 0 to 0, and the Dutchman tried to chip, but Walter saved – just like Rossi did this Sunday on Yuri's penalty.

"So, the first moment he came to get some water, I talked to him. The player, more than anyone, knows the mistake he made, the wrong decision, let's say. It's not easy, it's not simple, even more so for those who command. It's a situation where you are totally sold, because you don't know the athlete's reaction at that moment. I just regret it, because, back there, we had a similar event in the match against Mirassol, and it should have served as a lesson for all of us," said the coach.

The coach also made it clear that, despite being on the sideline, he has no influence on how the penalty taker will kick the ball.

"[The coach] Can't change anything. That moment is the athlete's, he was trained for that. It may be that, on the day, he is not well. He takes the ball and gives it to the second, third. We have up to four players there who can take the penalty. But no interference [from the coach]. The result is what was trained. Surely, it was not like that. We were unlucky, we have to swallow all this," Dorival lamented.

Angry with the refereeing

In Dorival's view, Corinthians had a great first half and created at least two clear chances besides the penalty wasted by Yuri Alberto. The coach acknowledged the drop in performance in the second half, but was angry with the refereeing in the play of Flamengo's second goal.

Dorival Júnior, like Gustavo Henrique, complained about the lateral marking for Flamengo, in which Plata took a quick throw-in and started the play for the goal of the team from Rio's comeback. In sequence, Carrascal found Luiz Araújo, who shot past Hugo Souza.

"We created in the first half, we had volume, possession. Except for the last eight minutes, which is normal against a team that has a very well-defined standard, high-level players and substitutions that improve the presented context. We deserved to have had better luck, a better result. The first half was almost perfect, if we can put it that way. We didn't take advantage of the opportunities we had, otherwise we could have played a different game in the second half. Our goal and Flamengo's goal right after neutralizes the moment we had, and the game goes back to being disputed. In a mistake in the second half... the throw-in was ours, our team stops, to position itself and throw the ball in. The throw-in ends up being given to Flamengo and, with that, they caught us totally open, and they took advantage. In the second half, we had a little more difficulty due to the volume we put in the first half and the intensity," Dorival evaluated.

In the play in question, Gustavo Henrique divides with Plata in a sprint of the Flamengo player. The defender understands that the attacker touched the ball last, a view shared by Dorival. The coach even went further and contested the linesman's decision, emphasizing that "everyone saw" that the ball was Corinthians'.

"Everyone saw that the ball was ours. Everyone saw. Our team stopped. Unfortunately, when the play comes out, if I'm not mistaken it was Plata who took the ball, it was very close to him. He quickly takes the ball. He had this perception, but the feeling of the whole stadium is that the ball was ours. As it was from the players themselves. It was a very simple play, it was not a difficult or complicated play. I don't know what happened, because Bruno is one of the best linesmen we have in Brazil. I don't know what happened at that moment. It's a very clear, very obvious play. So it's not a lack of concentration. When he makes the move to the right, Plata was already on top of the ball. He takes the ball and makes the kick, it's impossible. From there, the goal comes out," the coach concluded.

Situation in the table

The result was terrible for Corinthians, which suffered its second consecutive defeat in the Brasileirão and remained in 12th place, with the same 29 points from the beginning of the round. Timão still has seven more points than Juventude, which opens the relegation zone.

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