Is Brazil's 4-2-4 doomed? Our crew dives into the tactical mess from the Australia match, why the midfield is a ghost town, and if Ancelotti's plan is going nowhere fast! From Fantasy picks to formation fails, we break it all down. Hit subscribe for more real talk on the beautiful game and comment your favorite (or most frustrating) moment from this episode! #Soccer #Brazil #Tactics #Football #Analysis
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0:00 - System Critique and Early Concerns
1:04 - Discussion of Brazil vs. Australia Match
2:55 - Analysis of Lineup and Tactics
4:57 - Problems With Attacking Approach
7:39 - Team Structure and Repeating Mistakes
11:46 - Midfield Issues and Coaching Critique
14:27 - Solutions and Expectations for Future Matches
17:51 - Closing Thoughts and Brazil's Outlook
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0:00 - System Critique and Early Concerns
1:04 - Discussion of Brazil vs. Australia Match
2:55 - Analysis of Lineup and Tactics
4:57 - Problems With Attacking Approach
7:39 - Team Structure and Repeating Mistakes
11:46 - Midfield Issues and Coaching Critique
14:27 - Solutions and Expectations for Future Matches
17:51 - Closing Thoughts and Brazil's Outlook
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00:00The 4-2-4, it has to end.
00:02I defended and downplayed the idea that the system wasn't the problem
00:06until this game against Australia.
00:08And I really believe that it's possible to play well
00:11using this system with a few adjustments.
00:13But it's very far from what Ancelotti has been doing.
00:16Brazil doesn't necessarily need that classic number 10,
00:19but it does need people to fill the midfield.
00:22And the plays in this game make that very clear.
00:25Man, I'm going to say something I mentioned here a little while ago
00:28and that we can go deeper into.
00:29I honestly, very honestly think that this project
00:32has very little chance of working out.
00:34I really do.
00:35We can go deeper here into the topics, into the issues.
00:38But for me, it's a job that's just getting started, you know,
00:41a new cycle, a new moment.
00:43Repeating the same mistakes that happened last year
00:45and that were admitted by the coach shows that he didn't learn, man.
00:49He didn't learn from what didn't work, from what went wrong.
00:53And what he admitted didn't work.
00:55So for me, it's something that starts like this.
00:57It's doomed to fail.
00:58That's it, guys.
00:59Hold on.
01:00It's over.
01:01That's it.
01:02Have a good Friday.
01:02That's all we have to say.
01:03Take care.
01:04No, but that's a good starting point for us to discuss
01:07because I'm always the guy, I tend to be the optimistic guy, right?
01:10I'm the guy who's like, okay, but we have to understand.
01:13There's the coach's side.
01:14There's the player's side.
01:15But, man, it's frustrating for a few reasons, right?
01:17First, the level of the opponent.
01:18We talked on the day of the call-up about how, okay, if there's any moment for us to test,
01:23for us to do something crazy with the call-up, it's now.
01:26Because, come on, Australia and India, for God's sake, if we can't use it now, when are
01:30we going to use it?
01:30Again, it's who?
01:31Man, we're going to watch the game.
01:32Australia.
01:33And, by the way, this is, theoretically, the starting lineup.
01:35It's a team with fewer changes, right?
01:37Mateusinho played because Wesley got injured.
01:40Other than that, it was what we expected.
01:42Maybe the only one missing was Magal Hayes.
01:44Like, there are people...
01:45Okay, it's becoming this thing where people say losing to Australia is just part of testing.
01:50But testing is one thing, and losing to Australia is another.
01:53It could be.
01:54I think we can take a step into the game.
01:56Not that we have a lot of topics to talk about, but I really agree with your opening point
02:00there, right?
02:01When you talk about the frustration and the difficulty we have in seeing a future for
02:05the Brazilian national team, and I think that, to a certain extent, sometimes it's just a
02:08method of taste, right?
02:09I like to see a more offensive team.
02:11I like to see a team that plays more in transition with quick attacks, you know?
02:15I think in a game against Australia, it's not just about personal taste, you know?
02:19I think we get into a context where, man, any minimally qualified national team has to
02:23compete by keeping possession, occupying the attacking half, and finding solutions.
02:28But Brazil is better at transitions.
02:30Man, it doesn't matter.
02:31There's no way for Brazil to be one-dimensional like that ever since, man, you could say since
02:36the start of the last cycle, when it seems like nothing has evolved during this whole
02:40period, you know?
02:42Yeah, and to comparing, even if it's not a perfect comparison, Turkey played a much better
02:47game against Australia than we did, man.
02:49In the World Cup, Turkey dominated Australia and lost.
02:52We played badly and almost lost.
02:54But anyway, he said that at this moment, something I don't think there's much to debate about,
02:59the priority is to give minutes to players who are playing less.
03:02That is Hendrik and Estevo, players who were starters in today's game, right?
03:06Estevo was playing wide on the right side.
03:09And Hendrik was paired up there with Rafinha.
03:12And then, well, I noticed something, especially throughout the first half, that I think, given
03:19the characteristics Brazil has with Rafinha and Hendrik playing as a front pair, you have
03:24two guys who really like to attack space, right?
03:26To accelerate behind the defensive line.
03:28So Brazil tried that a lot in the first half.
03:30I counted, man, up until the 25th minute, about three or four attempts at forcing balls
03:33in behind, you know?
03:34An attempt from the center back, from the full back to launch, to skip the buildup, to try
03:39to find these guys against a team that was playing with a line of five, another line of
03:45four, very compact, closed off.
03:47It's really hard to find that, right?
03:49Cool.
03:49Characterities, two aspects.
03:51The first is this, trying to give these players some minutes.
03:53And the second is, with the characteristics these guys have, it's going to be very difficult
03:57in some scenarios for you to create opportunities.
04:00And facing a pact in Australia, what space would you have to attack behind their defense?
04:03Almost none, almost zero.
04:05Those guys are going to play there really tight and all.
04:07So this is a topic that I believe is going to have to, man, really focus on in the next
04:12few days to try to work on improving the team, right?
04:15The way the game was put together today was terrible, just like several other things.
04:19I just seen the images there, yeah.
04:21Yeah, I know.
04:21I even put the image here to, because this fits well with what Rahe mentioned.
04:26Yeah, look at how this was from the second half, okay?
04:29Rahe talked about the first half, and I totally agree.
04:31This was from the beginning of the second half.
04:33So Ancelotti still had the chance to make changes.
04:36Australia is defending.
04:37They set up their back five.
04:39It looks like Martino's here.
04:40He has a little more space to carry the ball.
04:43And look at the posture of the front four.
04:44It's Hendrick running in behind, Rafinha running in behind, and Vini running in behind.
04:49Esteban isn't doing it as much yet.
04:51So we're seeing more runs in behind, looking to get behind the defense, rather than trying
04:55to build up play a bit more.
04:57Not much more, just that, right?
05:01It was 60 minutes of trying it over and over, and Brazil kept trying.
05:05Couldn't there have been some support in this passing lane?
05:07Can you see my mouse?
05:08I think so, right?
05:10Uh-huh, uh-huh.
05:11In this passing lane over here, or in that other one over there?
05:14That's right.
05:15Could there have been more support, or whatever, two drop deep and two push-up, to try to create
05:19more dynamics?
05:20It seemed like a lost team to me, man.
05:22That caught my attention, too, man.
05:24And then, like, to be honest, this scenario that we're describing and everything, it bothered
05:29me, which is the lack of options, obviously, right?
05:32But at the same time, at least there's space behind the defensive line.
05:37But, man, I saw some force plays against a much deeper block than that mid-to-low block
05:42that you think, well, now it's not going to work.
05:44But even so, nobody came to support.
05:46And just a little bit of space between the last line and the goalkeeper, which is a tough
05:49space to get into, hard to attack.
05:51And the team kept forcing it.
05:53So, like, when there's a lot of space behind the defensive line, like in this frame that
05:57Felipe paused, what does the player think about at that moment on the field?
06:00He looks at where the defenders have their shoulders turned, where their bodies are facing.
06:04You can see that the defenders, the center backs, they're sideways, ready to defend the
06:09space in behind, all of them.
06:10There's no one with their chest facing the attack, where their chest is facing the attack.
06:14That's a trigger in each player's mind.
06:16The guy thinks, okay, now's the time to play it because the guy has his back to the space
06:20behind.
06:20I'm going to play that ball.
06:21Then the guy, they're perfectly positioned to defend the space behind, even so.
06:25But then you think, okay, fine.
06:27It was a little mistake there that, man, it's something very, it's very subtle.
06:31It's all about the details.
06:32The guy was like this.
06:33Suddenly he turned like that.
06:34I passed the ball when he turned, man.
06:36I messed up.
06:36You still get that feeling that the guy misread the body shape there.
06:40But man, when this little space behind the last line, really close, the block is much
06:44lower.
06:44And they keep trying to attack the space behind without anyone supporting.
06:47Then you think, man, that wasn't a mistake, bro.
06:49They're really lacking options.
06:51There's no one to support.
06:52I got excited with, like I started thinking about Rayan coming in and trying to bring things
06:57a little more inside.
06:59Because they can't occupy that area.
07:01Fill that part of the field to give a bit more support.
07:04And I also ended up, something I wasn't curious or anxious about at the start of the game
07:08was Pedro coming in.
07:10I got anxious to see Pedro.
07:12I thought, man, Pedro is going to help.
07:14Pedro is going to break up this lack of variety, just going there to attack the space in behind.
07:19Attack the space in behind.
07:20And he's going to show up there.
07:21But then, ironically, when the quick attacks started coming in and then another quick attack,
07:25it was already the point in terms of minute management to make a change, test something
07:29else.
07:30And Pedro came in right when the game was starting to shape up for those quick attacks.
07:33So, it's crazy.
07:35It seems like everything went wrong.
07:36Even the flow of the game.
07:38It happened at a bad moment, too.
07:39Are you the one keeping track of the time or is it João?
07:43I'm the one doing it.
07:44I'm the one.
07:44Go ahead.
07:45Set it to minute 11 and 11.48 of the first half.
07:49Please go back a little bit more, a little more.
07:52There's a frame there that I think is interesting for us to take a look at, which is exactly about
07:56this.
07:57Yeah, about the team splitting up, right?
07:59The team splitting into two.
08:00Yeah, you can already get an idea, right?
08:03That is the matter of playing out from the back, right?
08:05Which was also something new in this game, right?
08:07The two center backs and the defensive midfielders dropping back.
08:10Sometimes Bruno Guimarães would drop on the right.
08:12Sometimes Danilo would drop on the left, which I think doesn't really suit Danilo's style.
08:17In my view, Danilo is much more of a player who breaks forward, who gets up front.
08:21Anyway, I think Bruno Guimarães can be more of that guy to start to play.
08:24But anyway, it was Ancelot's choice.
08:26And you can see a bit of that, right?
08:28Look how the team is splitting two.
08:30The four guys are stuck up front and the two fullbacks are wide.
08:33At times, Meteo Zinho would come inside and Esteveu would go wide.
08:37At other times, Vinicius would go wide and Douglas would come inside.
08:40There were some switches between them.
08:41But look at this, man.
08:42How is the team supposed to build up play with this, with this positioning on the field?
08:46And like, Australia was very clear-headed on the field.
08:50Not that it justifies anything, okay?
08:53But still, we can say that Australia was more clear-headed than the Brazilian team, which
08:57to me is absurd.
08:58Basically, they had this line of four here in the middle.
09:00It was five for one.
09:01This line of four was really tight.
09:03Brazil only had depth up front.
09:05And when the ball was about to go to the fullbacks here, to Meteo Zinho and Douglas, the wingbacks
09:09would step up, block them, and then Brazil would go back.
09:12This frame you picked here, it's perfect, right?
09:14It was supposed to be maybe a 3-4-3 or something like that with the ball.
09:18Man, it turned into a 3-1-6 and everyone went forward and all that.
09:22And here is what Joao mentioned, right?
09:24Still with less space behind the defense.
09:26Because, man, if you make a long pass...
09:30And it's that thing.
09:31The guy up front doesn't make himself available and the center back doesn't draw anyone out
09:34or call for it either.
09:35And then when it gets to a situation like Danilo's here, for example, he looks and says,
09:39man, the only thing left is for me to try this long ball.
09:41Let's go.
09:42Boom.
09:42Then he tries and nothing comes of it.
09:44I can't fall.
09:45Go ahead.
09:45You can talk.
09:47And then, like, that's the lack of repertoire.
09:49It's like, it seems like there's some intention to match up there.
09:52The guys are defending with a line of five.
09:54Let's throw a bunch of strikers in.
09:56Let's make sure everyone is occupied with someone there.
09:59Let's attack the gaps.
10:01Let's do that.
10:02And then when that last line drops back a bit more, it's time to switch gears and say,
10:06man, at least we have to support.
10:08Then we go out and make another plan.
10:10Move the ball around.
10:11Something like that.
10:12And then when it's time to switch gears, nothing, nothing.
10:16You see that it was just one note and you keep hammering away on that one little thing.
10:20And whether it works or not, that's what you're going to try.
10:23And that's not going to change anything for you.
10:25On the little board, it was like this, right?
10:27The quartet up front, the fullbacks pushing forward too.
10:30Danilo usually making that move more on the left.
10:32Bruno.
10:33And it was, man, it even looked kind of caricatured.
10:36In fact, this 3-1-6 there.
10:38Yeah, completely.
10:40Man, it's an impressive thing.
10:42And that's why I said at the beginning that I have very little expectation.
10:46Because, man, like, of course, damn, the guy is saying this.
10:48There was a game.
10:49But the thing is, the mistakes keep repeating themselves at other times.
10:52And this has already happened with the Brazilian national team.
10:55It's not like we're seeing an attempt at something new, something really different.
10:58And another thing, even going back to the press conference, right?
11:00I heard another answer from him here.
11:01He was asked about the 4-2-4, which for me is an unworkable system.
11:05But anyway, yeah.
11:07And then he says, no, that we have two ways of playing.
11:11Again, right?
11:11This same line was also used a lot during the World Cup.
11:14This is one way, this system with four men up front.
11:16And the three midfielders, which was what was established in the World Cup with Paqueta,
11:20then Martinelli, and another one.
11:21Well, I don't know about you, but today I can't see the national team performing well
11:25in one style of play.
11:26You want to create two at the same time?
11:28So come on, establish one model first.
11:31Give this model some strength.
11:33Make the team evolve within this model.
11:36Then you can start adding variations.
11:37You can start adding interesting things.
11:39Other ways.
11:40Right now, Brazil doesn't have a well-defined way of playing that can deliver good performance.
11:44You want to do two at the same time.
11:45Training one.
11:46Let's be honest.
11:46Let's be honest.
11:47Three, four months.
11:48And let's be honest, right?
11:49Right?
11:50Man, 90% of the games in this World Cup cycle are going to be against teams like this one
11:54from Australia.
11:55It's not a technically refined team.
11:57It's not a team that's going to push up a lot to press.
12:00So the main way for Brazil to play has to be with the ball, has to be moving it around,
12:05has to be occupying the attacking half.
12:07We can't think we're going to create great chances by playing vertically and looking for
12:11space behind the defense.
12:12I even insist on this point a lot.
12:14I don't think the problem is the 4-2-4 system.
12:18Okay?
12:18I think there are plenty of alternatives to make it work.
12:20But clearly, Brazil needs to start occupying the midfield.
12:24It doesn't necessarily have to be with a playmaker.
12:27I mean, because Brazil has to...
12:29Brazil doesn't produce playmakers like it used to.
12:31Regardless, someone needs to go there.
12:33And France doesn't either.
12:36They don't make midfielders like they used to.
12:38Yeah, they played with a front four.
12:39Lise, Barcola, or Douer, Odouer, Dembélé, and Mbappé.
12:44None of them is that guy.
12:45But all the time, someone would drop back to fill that role.
12:48It could be the fullback.
12:49It could be the defensive midfielder.
12:50It could be the playmaker.
12:51Someone has to play that part.
12:53And while I was worried that the players weren't understanding the ideas,
12:57man, now I think we've had enough time.
12:58We've had 30 days more than 30 days, right?
13:02We've had since the World Cup to work on all this.
13:04And it didn't move forward, man.
13:06Yeah, and if you look back a little, like if we go back to Tite's time, right?
13:09I know a lot of people don't like Tite, don't like his work,
13:11don't like the person, the figure.
13:13Anyway, that's not the debate here.
13:14When Tite arrived at the Brazilian national team, he had nothing.
13:17It was, he took over Dunga's team.
13:19They were in sixth place in the qualifiers.
13:21Man, in just two FIFA windows, whether you like it or not,
13:23the team already had a playing style.
13:25The debut was already very good against Ecuador and so on.
13:28Brazil, in that qualifier, with very little time,
13:30played several really good matches.
13:32Against Paraguay, I remember, it was here in Sao Paulo.
13:35It was a game I even went to the stadium for.
13:37It was a great match.
13:38The match against Argentina at Moura was a domination by Brazil.
13:41It wasn't this Argentina.
13:42It was a weak Argentina.
13:44But the team had a playing style, man, clearly established.
13:47Today, the Brazilian national team has absolutely nothing.
13:50You look at the field, you don't see anything.
13:52It's empty.
13:52And it is not just emptiness in the midfield setup, right?
13:55It's empty of ideas, of behavior, of concepts.
13:58And there's a persistence, I repeat,
14:00in something that clearly isn't going to work, isn't working.
14:04So today, for example, what is it,
14:06what justifies the idea of bringing Vinicius back to play on the wing again?
14:10Vinicius is a player who does better near the goal in those final meters.
14:13Then you put him out there to play again, out wide.
14:15It's clear that he doesn't work like that.
14:17And even Antelotti himself was the coach
14:19who changed his position very little in that sense too, right?
14:22Yes, at Real Madrid.
14:24That's why I'm pessimistic about this project.
14:27And man, I even admit that when the second half started,
14:30Antelotti made some small tactical changes.
14:33What did he basically do?
14:35He puts Douglas Santos back to help with the buildup
14:37and says, my friend, we've got a gap in the middle.
14:39Let's start filling it.
14:40Let's push Danilo up more.
14:42Yeah.
14:42Vinicius moves more to the wing.
14:43And instead of Danilo coming here to fill in,
14:46Danilo goes over there.
14:47And then it's the same mess, the same gap,
14:49just swapping the players around, you know?
14:51That, for me, is one of the most...
14:54And then, like, this part...
14:57This thing we're talking about here, about this,
14:59it's because people have...
15:00I see people here in the chat.
15:01I understand what they're saying.
15:02I have a feeling that I agree with what they're saying,
15:04but for different reasons, you know?
15:08Because people talk a lot about the 4-2-4 and all,
15:10but I really think, like Felipe does,
15:12that the problem isn't necessarily the 4-2-4.
15:15The 4-2-4 has something about it,
15:17that, like, this number two,
15:18when we look at it like foreign defense,
15:20we immediately start focusing on a gap
15:22that exists in what they put out.
15:24But that gap isn't necessarily because of the 4-2-4.
15:27It could be the 4-4-2.
15:29That because of bad dynamics and movements,
15:31you end up with a crater in the midfield, too.
15:34So I would switch to Estevam.
15:36That's what I was going to ask you now.
15:38Talking about that now,
15:40Rafinha and the national team send another super, super chat
15:42saying that Antelope is going to change the system
15:45for the next game.
15:46I think it's hard, man, to change the system
15:47for the next game.
15:49But, like, there are people who can do something
15:52to fill that midfield spot.
15:53I think a lot about Estevam,
15:54who, for me, is the best name to fill that midfield spot
15:58because he's already done it.
15:59He has already shown the ability
16:00to fill that midfield spot.
16:02And Rayan on the wing,
16:05it would be great.
16:05Like, it's really good to see Rayan starting.
16:07I think he deserves it more than Pedro,
16:09who I think would be the second name
16:10to fill that same spot with different dynamics.
16:12More of a hold-up role,
16:14dropping back, moving out of the box a lot.
16:15And when he moves out of the box,
16:17he opens up space for Vini,
16:18who cuts in diagonally like that.
16:21It works.
16:22You get it?
16:22Something like that.
16:23And do you guys think of anyone else
16:24besides Estevam and Pedro
16:25to fill that midfield gap?
16:27Just adding something about that.
16:28I think the analysis is perfect in that sense.
16:31You know, having players to compensate for that issue.
16:34But he's going to change the system
16:35for the next game, João.
16:36Is he?
16:37The idea is that in these three games,
16:38there will be three kind of different things.
16:40You know, a lineup in this one,
16:42formation, a lineup and formation in this one,
16:45a lineup, formation in the other.
16:46And in the last one,
16:47take a little bit of what worked in each game
16:49and apply it to the last one,
16:51which has what?
16:52A challenge even less competitive, right?
16:54Brazil and India, unbelievable stuff.
16:56But anyway, for the next game,
16:58I imagine he'll go back to the 4-3-3.
17:01Man, I imagine he could keep the 4-2-4,
17:04but with players with different characteristics,
17:07you know, like instead of Vini.
17:08That's the meaning.
17:10Who's a guy that naturally
17:11will look more for dribbling,
17:12will look to attack behind the defense more.
17:14Sometimes on the wing,
17:15he'll come in, I don't know,
17:17with bomb tempo, let's say.
17:18And then, I don't necessarily think
17:19it turns into a 4-3-3.
17:22But anyway, I think that's
17:23a more far-fetched discussion.
17:24But man, I think we have players
17:26for that role there.
17:26I don't think this lack,
17:28this absence of a number 10 Esteban
17:29fills that role.
17:31Donnilo fills that role.
17:33Bruno Guimarães fills that role.
17:34And now we also have the opportunity
17:36with Bidu and Bomb Tempo
17:38to fill that role.
17:39I don't think there's any miracle there.
17:40But I also don't think we need a miracle
17:42from a brilliant generation,
17:43you know, one that comes up every 40 years
17:45just to beat Australia, you know?
17:47And I'll say more.
17:48We're not even talking about results here.
17:50Okay, guys?
17:51If Brazil had played the way they did
17:52and had beaten Australia
17:53with a last-minute goal from Ryan
17:55or with Esteban's goal,
17:56which was disallowed,
17:58and it ended 1-0,
18:00man, I'd feel exactly the same.
18:02That's the least important thing.
18:03The result is the least relevant thing
18:05in these three friendlies.
18:06For me and Luke,
18:08if the game didn't have a score,
18:10let's do it.
18:10Let's make a new rule.
18:11Let's play a preparation friendly
18:13and there won't be a score for the game.
18:14We play 90 minutes
18:15and there won't be a score.
18:17Yeah, it's not about winning
18:18or losing or drawing.
18:19It's about how the team plays.
18:20That's what's most important right now.
18:22The result, who cares?
18:23Luis really got what we've been trying to say
18:25for a long time.
18:26He said,
18:26it's not about classic number 10s.
18:28It's about players
18:29who move between the lines.
18:30So that's what we've been talking about
18:32all this time, man.
18:33There was even an interview
18:34with Akilaj,
18:34but he said,
18:35man, the coach has to work
18:36with the players,
18:37with the characteristics he has there.
18:39Brazil doesn't produce
18:40those classic number 10 midfielders
18:42that everyone is passionate about.
18:44We haven't produced those
18:45for a long time.
18:46So I'm going to call up
18:47the guys who are ready
18:48for the national team to play
18:49and that kind of player
18:50just isn't there.
18:51And then you complain to me,
18:52you know what?
18:53Enough of that talk.
18:54But man,
18:55what you can complain to him about
18:56is this gap in the midfield.
18:57You can't blame him
18:58for not calling up
18:59a classic number 10
19:00that's impossible.
19:00But then if there's a hole
19:01in the midfield,
19:02that's definitely his responsibility.
19:03And honestly,
19:04Estevam could,
19:05in my opinion,
19:05play that role, man,
19:06of being the guy
19:07to float behind the lines,
19:08offer a passing option.
19:09And he has that characteristic.
19:12Bruno has been doing that
19:12more and more
19:13at Newcastle,
19:14at Arsenal.
19:15At times,
19:15he was even the third man
19:16in midfield, you know?
19:17Almost like a number 10
19:18in the World Cup.
19:18He had some good flashes there.
19:20Why not also Mateus Cunha,
19:22who was left out of the squad?
19:23Yeah, even Paqueta himself
19:25who was left out of the squad.
19:26But then,
19:27there are players
19:28that just don't make it.
19:29People really get into this, right?
19:30Man, let me put it here.
19:31Even on the screen,
19:32would any of those
19:33who are in the lineup,
19:34if they were Brazilian,
19:35have been called up?
19:35No way!
19:36Not a single Australian player
19:38would have been called up.
19:39And Australia played
19:40better than Brazil.
19:41Yeah, yeah.
19:42And people think about that.
19:44We really get into this exercise,
19:45right?
19:45Of trying to be
19:46not too technical.
19:47But it's impossible, right?
19:48To get there
19:49and be the coach
19:50that's Antelote,
19:51that's Dorival,
19:52that's Vitor,
19:52maybe even a Guardiola.
19:54The coaching staff
19:55with the highest salary
19:57among national teams
19:58in the world, right?
19:59Now,
20:00at least we can do
20:00is demand that he delivers more.
20:03Imagine yourself
20:04with that salary, right?
20:05Building a team
20:05in the fantasy game,
20:06you would make the best.
20:07Oh my God.
20:09Much better.
20:10And that was what
20:11caught my attention.
20:11Can you put my screen up there
20:12or not?
20:13It didn't work.
20:13Yes, yes, you can.
20:15Yes, you can.
20:16Man,
20:16do you see this scoreboard here?
20:17We played a game in fantasy,
20:20all of us here.
20:21Yeah,
20:22this 5-2-2 here,
20:23this blowout
20:23was with the team
20:25from,
20:26let me see,
20:26round 28.
20:27He left his team there
20:28in round 28.
20:29It was
20:31basically
20:31with the team
20:32that Antelote beat.
20:34Look,
20:34we took this,
20:36our fantasy game
20:37only counts,
20:37it's only for the
20:38Brazilian Championship.
20:39We're playing the
20:39Brazilian Championship,
20:40right?
20:40They're Premier League,
20:41they're Serie B.
20:42But we're playing
20:42the Brazilian Championship.
20:43I thought,
20:44man,
20:44let me see if I build
20:45a fantasy team
20:46and put everyone
20:47that Antelote's called up.
20:48So look there,
20:49Matheusinho,
20:50Arso Diaz,
20:51Vitao,
20:52Martinelli,
20:53Bom Tempo.
20:54Here I put
20:54Matheus Pereira
20:55and Machado
20:56because there's a video
20:56by Felipe Samanetti
20:58here on the channel
20:58where he shows
20:59what would be
21:00the Brazilian
21:01national team's
21:02lineup
21:02according to the numbers.
21:04If you look
21:05at their performance
21:06only strictly
21:07by the numbers.
21:08So Machado
21:09has really good numbers
21:10and Matheus Pereira
21:10does too.
21:11So I went and added
21:12Hulk here in the attack
21:13and that's why
21:14these three
21:14are on the team.
21:15But the rest
21:16were all people
21:17that Antelope
21:18called up
21:19for the national team.
21:20And look at that.
21:21It worked out, man.
21:23Take a look.
21:23Five to two.
21:24Do you think the scout guys
21:25are checking fantasy games
21:26to pick the national team?
21:28No.
21:29And it's important
21:30for us to say
21:31something about
21:31our fantasy.
21:32Philippon
21:33and João,
21:34everyone who's watching us,
21:36this isn't an advertisement.
21:38We're not here
21:39making money
21:40to promote an app.
21:41This app
21:42is ours.
21:43It's ours.
21:43It's from
21:44Football Maximo.
21:45We made it.
21:45We made it.
21:46And what's this
21:47five to two thing about?
21:48How do you score
21:49a goal here?
21:50For example,
21:50this year,
21:51look,
21:51CD means
21:52defensive contributions.
21:54Take all the players
21:55I played with
21:56and add up
21:57the defensive contributions.
21:58Look,
21:5918 from
21:59from Milano Machado 2,
22:00from Mateusinho 7,
22:01from Arthur Diaz.
22:03Defensive contribution
22:04is interception,
22:05clearances,
22:06things like that.
22:07And then take all that
22:08and add it up
22:08with the defensive contributions
22:10from the other team,
22:11which in this case
22:12was Reims' team,
22:13barely changed
22:13because he lent me players
22:15from the national team.
22:16He really messed me up
22:17this round.
22:17You talk about you
22:23having messed up my team,
22:24so like...
22:26There was more
22:27defensive contribution
22:28than I.
22:29What happened?
22:29One to one.
22:30One zero for me
22:31is weird here.
22:32I scored a goal.
22:33My goalkeeper,
22:33Reims' goalkeeper,
22:34made more saves than mine.
22:35So he scored his goal.
22:37So it's like key passes.
22:38They're passes that lead
22:39to a shot.
22:39Whoever wins
22:40in each category
22:40scores a goal
22:41on the final scoreboard.
22:42In the end,
22:43whoever won in more categories
22:44with the team they picked,
22:45in the end,
22:45I won in five categories
22:46and Reims won in two
22:47because of this thing
22:48that we picked
22:49based on who we like
22:50in this match here.
22:51It wasn't our team.
22:52Hey, Joao.
22:52It doesn't seem like
22:53a matter of squad selection.
22:54It's really something
22:55way beyond that.
22:56I think it comes down
22:57to the coach
22:58who is taking on
22:59more and more responsibility
23:01because before we could say,
23:03right,
23:03there hasn't been
23:03much time to work.
23:05He still hasn't managed
23:05to really show
23:07what is expected of him.
23:08And also,
23:10there's the responsibility
23:11of the players
23:12on the field.
23:13They can't perform
23:14the way we expect them to.
23:16Yeah,
23:16like for much less.
23:17And for me,
23:18that's just a fact.
23:19For much less,
23:21other Brazilian coaches
23:22would have already been fired.
23:23I'm not saying
23:24he has to be fired.
23:25I'm not saying that,
23:26but I think the pressure
23:27has to be greater, man.
23:28It has to be proportional
23:29to the investment made,
23:30to the guy's reputation,
23:32to his track record.
23:33They brought in Antelote
23:34because he's supposedly
23:35the guy who,
23:36in theory,
23:37for me,
23:38in theory,
23:38could do something
23:39really different
23:39and he's not delivering.
23:41It's not happening.
23:42Nothing for this team.
23:43That's what it is.
23:44Man, I don't think
23:45that position
23:46is that untouchable.
23:47Not really.
23:48Of course.
23:48So I'm discouraged.
23:49Being really honest,
23:51I'm discouraged
23:51about the national team.