Jardim admits Jorginho dip, names culprit for Flamengo slump | OneFootball

— Jorginho is certainly not at his best right now; everyone knows his ability. But Nico (De La Cruz) also wasn’t with us, and he’s a player who can replace him. Today I gave him a few minutes. Another player who can play an important role for the team as a number 8 and has tremendous quality is Paquetá. Certainly, when everyone is available, we can rotate. We’ll have better options. We know how important Jorginho is, but we also know we have other players who, when one is below par, can step in, and at this moment we don’t have that —, Jardim said.

THE MATCH “The first half was not good, especially offensively. We couldn’t connect our play. We had some difficulty creating, we had possession and moved the ball wide a lot, but in real terms and in effectiveness we didn’t manage it. In the second half we were more effective, but it wasn’t enough for what we wanted.” SECOND STRAIGHT DRAW — The results are certainly worrying. We know that anything other than a win carries weight for this group. It will be an extremely competitive league, and we believe we will always be in the fight, but we cannot drop points and allow our rival to pull away, because our goal is to retain the championship title. POOR FIRST HALF AGAIN — One of the things I told the players at the start of the match was exactly that point, the difficult first half against São Paulo. But I mentioned that before the World Cup break we were a team that started games very strongly; we ended up scoring a lot of goals early because we were dominant and “pressing.” That is more my style, but we haven’t been able to do it. Today I stressed again the importance of being incisive and starting games more strongly. Since bringing the groups together, we still haven’t managed to do that, but for me it is important, in my way of understanding the greatness of the club and the team I coach, that we be strong and incisive right from the start. We have to find again that way of playing that we had before the Cup. BREAK IN THE SCHEDULE — I intend to bring the group together in terms of training, because we still haven’t managed to do that. After the arrivals, the players were joining little by little. Many of them trained on their own, because we were traveling or weren’t with the group. Others are coming back from injury. As for the latest one, Paquetá, in principle he will also start working with the group from now on. After that, we will have the full squad together. I believe we will be able to recover a bit of our DNA, that style of play we seek and showed, especially before the Cup. PRIORITY IN THE MARKET — I’ve already spoken about the importance of having technical players with speed of execution up front, especially against teams that start dropping deeper and set up with a back five plus four. We need creative players, with speed, who can make the difference. Today, only Arrasca and Lino managed those movements at times. Other players didn’t. That’s why it’s something we’ve been assessing within the squad, and Boto knows how important it is to have technical players who can operate in tight spaces and create imbalance when opponents set up these low-space situations. MENTAL SIDE — Well, let’s turn the questions around. You know I’m not a big advocate of sterile possession. I think we have to be more effective. When we create, we have to finish the chances we produce better. As for the mental side, the players certainly know these two draws were not what we wanted. We also know these two teams had already caused Flamengo problems a few months ago, at the start of the league. Against Internacional and São Paulo, Flamengo had taken only one point. They were opponents we had already studied well, and we know their quality. The players also know that to play for Flamengo, you have to respond to adversity. I believe all of them, who already have a history in football, will be able to respond. We’ll use this period to work well as a team and now with the full group. After that, we still have the match against Vitória before the first leg of the Libertadores round of 16. DID INTER’S APPROACH SURPRISE YOU? — No, this Inter team has already shown quality. They were going through a difficult moment; we drew in the first half of the season and today as well. Football is like that, things change quickly. Bad spells don’t last forever, and neither do good ones. We have to manage these situations.

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