Can a few signings change a club’s future? Break down how Bruno Duarte, Colidio and their teammates turn clever feints, blind-spot runs and striker instinct into game-changing moments. You’ll never watch these goals the same way again!
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0:00 - Why Players’ Decisions Matter in Soccer
0:36 - Bruno Duarte’s Feints and Awareness
2:58 - Blind Spots and Disguised Passes
6:19 - Colidio’s Pass Sets Up David
8:08 - Vasco’s Quick Free Kick
9:39 - Colidio’s Growing Chemistry and Confidence
12:06 - Bruno Duarte’s Striker Instincts
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0:00 - Why Players’ Decisions Matter in Soccer
0:36 - Bruno Duarte’s Feints and Awareness
2:58 - Blind Spots and Disguised Passes
6:19 - Colidio’s Pass Sets Up David
8:08 - Vasco’s Quick Free Kick
9:39 - Colidio’s Growing Chemistry and Confidence
12:06 - Bruno Duarte’s Striker Instincts
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00:00How much can signing a player change a team's history?
00:03And what about three?
00:04Like, are tactics, lines, movements, and how players occupy space important?
00:07They're very important, and without them, nothing happens.
00:10But who really decides the game?
00:12The game is about the players.
00:14And this part where the player decides is the player who thinks,
00:17the player who figures things out and trusts his instincts.
00:19Each player would find a different solution in that situation,
00:22because each one is a completely different universe.
00:25That's the part I like the most, and that's what makes me love soccer.
00:28And many times, what I like most about the play is what nobody notices, nobody sees.
00:33Why does it feel like this whole goal here was by Bruno Duarte?
00:35Here, it's three against two, where Botafogo has a numerical advantage.
00:39That's normal in defense.
00:41That's what you have to look for.
00:42Bruno Duarte first beats Vitinho.
00:44He nutmegs Vitinho here.
00:45This nutmeg here, man.
00:46Like, yeah, you see that this nutmeg, he didn't just push the ball, you know?
00:49He didn't just go there and give it a little tap.
00:51It was a nutmeg because, okay, it went between the legs,
00:54and then he followed through, you know?
00:55But you see that his movement here, actually, it's kind of like he breaks
00:59at the same time he's ready for a tackle, too, just in case it happens, you know?
01:03It's not a faint, a body swerving cut, poking the ball through the defender's legs.
01:07But anyway, it ended up being a nutmeg in the end.
01:09It went between the legs, got past Vitinho,
01:11and this is where the most impressive part of the goal happens, man.
01:14When he gets past Vitinho, he starts dealing with these two defenders here.
01:17And what does he use?
01:17What information does he have in his head that he uses?
01:19First, this first defender here is blocking his shot on goal,
01:22and that's important information.
01:24And this second defender also has one eye on Rene Rynestrosa, right?
01:28Yeah, that's him.
01:29These are the two most important pieces of information in Bruno Duarte's mind.
01:32Why?
01:33He creates time and space on the ball by threatening to shoot.
01:37Look!
01:38He's threatening!
01:39He's drawing back his leg and threatening to shoot!
01:42Threatening to do anything!
01:43He forces this first defender here to stay stuck to the ground!
01:46He needs to set his stance and block the shot's path
01:50because the center back's goal is to not even let the ball reach the goalkeeper.
01:56So even being a few meters away,
01:58Bruno Duarte creates space just by fainting
02:00and buys himself time to think with those faints.
02:03Then he lifts his head and sees Lescano making a run.
02:06Then it's time to deal with this other defender here.
02:08Look how cool this is.
02:09How much the game comes down to the players.
02:12From far away, one spot over.
02:13Look at Bruno Duarte's body language.
02:15How he takes advantage of the second defender being distracted by Rene Rynestrosa.
02:19And look at the body language.
02:20Look where he turns his chest.
02:22Look where he goes through the whole motion.
02:24Look.
02:25Man, look at this.
02:26He's gonna pass it to Rene Rynestrosa, man.
02:28Every little detail of his body position,
02:31the shoulder, his arm here,
02:33the leg bent to the side this way turned toward Rene Rynestrosa.
02:37All of this is trickery.
02:40All this body language is to make Botafogo's number six
02:43cover the wrong passing lane to Rene Rynestrosa.
02:46And then he turns his foot at the last second
02:48so the ball goes through and finds Lescano.
02:51Lescano.
02:51This right here, man.
02:52This was a great goal.
02:53You guys know I like to talk about lines and movement.
02:55But man, what I really like is that football is like this,
02:57you know, here's Lescano.
02:59At the start of the play, he looks for the blind spot.
03:01I think it's Danilo over there, right?
03:03Marking him.
03:03He looks for the defender's blind spot to make a run
03:05because he has nothing to lose by looking for that blind spot.
03:08It's a good decision.
03:09It's a good habit to do all the time on the field.
03:11It doesn't matter the context.
03:13It doesn't matter if you're attacking or defending.
03:14You always look for the blind spot.
03:15That's the kind of decision that makes me enjoy watching football.
03:17Like the guy went to the blind spot
03:19and when he saw Bruno Duarte coming over here,
03:21he sped up without even knowing if the play was going to him.
03:24Why?
03:25Because it doesn't matter.
03:26If the play goes to him,
03:28what matters is that he's making a good decision.
03:31And that's the cool way to watch soccer.
03:32And then when the guy makes good decisions,
03:34gets into the box with danger.
03:36And then Bruno Duarte is doing everything I just talked about here.
03:38Kind of beating two defenders with feints from a distance.
03:41And then man, in the end,
03:42I end up thinking that's an amazing goal.
03:43You know, people don't really doubt, right?
03:45That the player feints to freeze the defender,
03:47that he turns his foot to disguise where the ball is going.
03:49People say it's crazy that the player doesn't think about that.
03:51But the truth is,
03:52this happens all the time in a soccer match.
03:54For example, in this goal here,
03:56look, by Colidio against Curitiba,
03:59right at the start of the play.
04:00Sosa does the same thing.
04:02Look, the body language,
04:03he stretches out completely
04:04as if he was going to play the ball to the right side,
04:06down the right lane,
04:06and Vasco was going to attack down the right wing.
04:08The opponent actually believes that
04:09because PH is always pushing up on that side.
04:12Asosa, with some cleverness,
04:13turns his foot at the last moment
04:14and attacks through the central lane.
04:16Lescano controls the ball well
04:17and advances through the most dangerous lane of all,
04:19which is the central one.
04:20The one that needs the most attention from the defense
04:21and is the hardest to break through.
04:22Look at how this little turn of the foot makes a difference.
04:24Think about it.
04:25Forget everyone else
04:26and keep your eye on this guy here
04:27who's marking Lescano.
04:28Look at how that little turn of the foot threw him off.
04:30Look at the scare he gets right there.
04:32You know, he's all relaxed,
04:33running up there,
04:34thinking the ball is going to be played out to the right wing.
04:36And suddenly he thinks,
04:37oh my God, it came here.
04:38And then that's it.
04:39It's over.
04:39Central lane between the lines,
04:41forcing the last line to run back
04:43and Vasco going on the attack through the central lane.
04:46This control by Lescano might look simple,
04:48but it's a touch
04:49and he's already facing the attack.
04:51That's really important.
04:52You can see that Sosa trusts he's going to do that.
04:54Sosa turns his foot,
04:55trusting that's the space Lescano needs.
04:57They must have gotten to know each other well in training,
04:59built an understanding and talked things through.
05:00And it's not the only time
05:01Lescano does well in this play here.
05:03There's Cuiabano down here with space to receive the ball,
05:06but Colidio's decision is to go to the more crowded side
05:08and that decision is conscious,
05:10at least in his mind,
05:11because notice that he passes
05:13and goes there to link up.
05:14Look, that's what really makes the most sense.
05:17When he goes to get it,
05:18if you were to look for Cuiabano down here
05:20to have room to build up speed and attack,
05:22he wouldn't get closer to Cuiabano to link up.
05:24He would play the ball into space
05:25and run to the box
05:26to add another attacking presence.
05:28So it was very intentional that,
05:29no, I want to go where it's crowded
05:31and go there to exchange passes.
05:33The play ended up going to the other side.
05:34Now that the play reaches an area
05:35with room to build momentum,
05:36he'll add an attacking presence in the box.
05:38And here Lescano, man,
05:39like this touch here, man,
05:41that's composure, man.
05:42Not many people do this.
05:43This is the kind of thing
05:43where the player decides in the moment
05:44what's happening.
05:45The coach's job
05:46is to make the right back
05:48get to the side of the box
05:49with several passing options
05:51and also an option to pass back
05:53in case something goes wrong.
05:54But this kind of decision from Lescano, man,
05:56like when we see it from this camera angle,
05:58it looks obvious.
06:00But out there on the field,
06:01I don't expect the player
06:03to make that decision, man.
06:04Then the ball goes to Colidio
06:05and Vasco scores,
06:07starting the play
06:07with a quick turn of the foot
06:08that surprises the defense,
06:10just like Bruno Duarte
06:11also faked a pass here
06:12and turned his foot,
06:13surprising the defense.
06:15Don't think that the player
06:16doesn't think about this.
06:17It happens all the time in soccer.
06:19And we showed Colidio scoring the goal
06:21and Bruno Duarte assisting,
06:22but what we can expect much more
06:23from now on is the opposite.
06:26Colidio has already shown some habits
06:27and some thinking of someone
06:29who assists very well.
06:30And Bruno Duarte
06:31has the most important characteristic
06:32for any striker.
06:33Pay attention to the details
06:34of each one's mindset
06:35for it to work this way.
06:36Pay attention.
06:37In this counterattack here
06:37from Vasco, Colidio,
06:38he passes the ball to David here.
06:40And when I'm watching this play, man,
06:41the moment he makes this pass here,
06:43I thought, man, he messed up.
06:44He should have carried the ball
06:45a little further.
06:46He should have changed the direction
06:47he was carrying it
06:48to make Vitinho,
06:50whose marking,
06:51look to one side,
06:52make Vitinho look to the other side
06:53and then pass the ball to David,
06:55you know?
06:55So David would have more space
06:56to get a clearer one-on-one
06:58with the goalkeeper.
06:58But, man, he trusted so much
07:01in David's left foot
07:02that, like,
07:02he ignored that Vitinho
07:04was already running,
07:05already positioned
07:05to intercept that pass.
07:07He ignored it.
07:07He made a very precise pass
07:09specifically to David's left foot
07:11and away from Vitinho.
07:13So he really relied on the pass.
07:16Another thing,
07:17on top of that,
07:18he forced David
07:20to have only one decision to make.
07:22Yeah, it's a first-time shot.
07:24And that's it.
07:25There's nothing else to decide.
07:26So, like, a lot of times
07:27the guy who's running
07:27to receive the pass,
07:28he's the one really responsible
07:30for the genius pass
07:30someone made
07:31because he suggested it.
07:33He went,
07:33made a move,
07:34asked for it,
07:35and suggested a ball
07:36in a spot that
07:36the guy with the ball thinks,
07:38wow, I hadn't even thought of that.
07:39And he gives it
07:39and then, man,
07:40it's a wonderful,
07:41spectacular pass
07:41and everyone keeps saying
07:42the guy has eagle eyes.
07:43In this case here,
07:44the opposite happened,
07:45you know?
07:46Colidio kind of decided
07:47how David was going to finish this play.
07:48You get it.
07:49He passed it to the left foot
07:50in a way that, man,
07:52there's no choice.
07:53Let's go.
07:53Just finish it.
07:54So, in many moments,
07:55I think that's what
07:55made things easier.
07:56David doesn't think,
07:57should I do this?
07:58Should I do that?
07:59He just says,
08:00all right,
08:00I have to shoot.
08:01Where do I shoot?
08:02Then he already saved himself
08:04a lot of thinking.
08:05This pass here,
08:05at first I thought he messed up,
08:06but in the end,
08:07I thought he did well.
08:08This was cool.
08:09Another thing I thought
08:10was cool too,
08:10that was clever of him,
08:11was during this free kick here,
08:13he tried to catch
08:14all the Botafogo defenders
08:15by surprise.
08:16Look, check this out.
08:17This guy here,
08:18he's giving instructions
08:19to the guys
08:20organizing the line
08:21and suddenly,
08:22the kick has already happened.
08:24Junior Santos here,
08:26he's checking,
08:26like,
08:27I'm leaving this guy
08:28offside behind me,
08:29man.
08:30I'm leaving him,
08:31let me check,
08:31let me look,
08:32the last time he checks,
08:33man,
08:34he only realizes
08:34the ball is about to be kicked
08:35because he's right up
08:36against the Vasco player
08:37in front of him.
08:38Then the guy makes a move
08:39like this suddenly,
08:40then he thinks,
08:41oh man,
08:41I think it's being taken,
08:42but he was looking back
08:43at the moment
08:44the kick was about to happen.
08:45Vitinho, man,
08:46Vitinho too,
08:47look,
08:47Vitinho reacts way later
08:48than everyone else,
08:49see.
08:49Vitinho's also looking back here,
08:51see,
08:51I don't know if the final video quality
08:52will let you guys notice,
08:54Vitinho is looking over here,
08:55see,
08:55still looking over here,
08:56still looking over here.
08:57By the time he looks,
08:57it's already too late,
08:58then he leaves kind of late,
08:59kind of lost
08:59with everyone else,
09:00you know?
09:01Because what happened,
09:02it was immediate intentional
09:03right after the whistle,
09:04check it out.
09:07You know,
09:07the referee barely blew the whistle
09:09and he already,
09:10it was quick,
09:11he took the free kick,
09:12you know?
09:13And then,
09:13of course,
09:14it didn't catch the whole
09:14Botafogo defense by surprise,
09:16but it doesn't have to catch
09:17the whole defense by surprise,
09:18it just needs to catch
09:20one guy off guard,
09:21two,
09:21great,
09:21it caught two guys off guard.
09:22If you look at the offside line
09:24that disallowed this Vasco goal,
09:26Vitinho has his back turned,
09:27man.
09:27He's not even in that ready position
09:29to run in a bit,
09:30try to catch the guy offside
09:31and at the same time,
09:32I'll also run right after him
09:34to try to cover the ball,
09:35something like that,
09:36nothing like that.
09:37It caught him off guard right there.
09:38Look,
09:38that play exposed him.
09:39Coligio is working well
09:40with Thiago Mendes
09:41and Cuiabano there.
09:42Look,
09:42when Thiago Mendes stays
09:43and has a marker on him,
09:44Cuiabano creates a two-on-one
09:45against Vitinho here,
09:46see?
09:47Then Coligio makes his decision.
09:48Either he takes advantage
09:49of Cuiabano's run
09:50or Vitinho hesitates there
09:52and plants his foot
09:52because he knows Cuiabano
09:53could receive the ball
09:54in behind him.
09:54Coligio has the skill
09:55to shoot from here.
09:56He likes shooting from here.
09:57Look,
09:57this shot was dangerous
09:58and he had already shown that before.
10:00In the game against Curitiba,
10:02he got the ball here
10:02from Cuiabano.
10:03Look,
10:03and with a really unlikely shot
10:05from way out here.
10:05Look,
10:06again,
10:06it was good.
10:07He forced the goalkeeper
10:08to parry the shot away
10:09like this play here
10:10ended up in a goal.
10:11We'll see it in a bit.
10:12But the thing is,
10:13the guy who already,
10:13the opposing team already knows
10:15that he likes
10:16taking shots from here,
10:17that he can be dangerous from here.
10:19He also needs to be clever
10:20and use that to his advantage
10:21even when he doesn't have
10:23space to shoot.
10:24Look,
10:24here he is again
10:24in this area of the field
10:25ready to receive the ball
10:26and finish.
10:27But what happened
10:27just a second ago back here?
10:29He noticed
10:29the arrival
10:30of Thiago Mendes.
10:33Thiago Mendes
10:34is going to arrive in that area.
10:35What does he do?
10:36He doesn't stop to shoot
10:36from where he likes.
10:37He drags the defender with him
10:38and Thiago Mendes
10:39is the one who gets the space
10:40and can cross or shoot.
10:42Again,
10:43a dangerous shot.
10:44Look at this clever move.
10:45If you see him running here,
10:46look,
10:46he's not even really expecting
10:47to get the pass,
10:48you know?
10:49Totally ready.
10:49Really expecting it.
10:50Really 100% focused
10:52because the ball could come
10:53to me at any moment.
10:54No,
10:54you can see that he's running
10:55kind of like this.
10:56Look,
10:56watching,
10:56knowing that it's Thiago Mendes
10:57who's going to get the ball.
10:58His body language says it.
11:00Look,
11:00he's just pulling away
11:01and that's it.
11:01Thiago Mendes
11:02is the one who took the shot.
11:03And when the guys
11:03start understanding each other,
11:04that starts showing up
11:05in the numbers.
11:06Put her on our website.
11:07Look,
11:07if we search here,
11:08look,
11:09Khalidio,
11:10here on our website,
11:11look,
11:11let's take a look here.
11:12You can see that his percentage
11:13of shots on target.
11:14Look,
11:14in his first game,
11:15he took four shots
11:16and missed them all.
11:170-0.
11:17Then it went up to 33
11:18against Cruzeiro 40%.
11:20Then he missed both shots.
11:21He tried
11:22and here it keeps going up.
11:23Look,
11:24on the rise.
11:25he hits the target more often.
11:26He gains confidence.
11:27The number of key passes.
11:29So,
11:29look,
11:29much more consistency.
11:30See,
11:31here three,
11:31then,
11:32and zero.
11:32Got it?
11:33And then he starts to have
11:34more chemistry,
11:35more understanding.
11:35He gains confidence
11:36and the number of key passes
11:38becomes more consistent
11:39until he finally gets an assist.
11:41He scored two goals
11:42in the last three games.
11:43As time goes by,
11:44he builds up his stats.
11:46Over time,
11:47by the looks of it,
11:48the same thing seems likely
11:49to happen with Bruno Duarte
11:50as well.
11:50It's very few matches.
11:51He only played 90 minutes
11:52against Curitiba.
11:53Damn,
11:54seven defensive contributions
11:55against Curitiba.
11:56He stole the show,
11:56huh?
11:57And the tendency
11:57is for those goal
11:59and key pass numbers
11:59to keep going up
12:00because of his really,
12:01really important behavior,
12:02man.
12:03Every striker needs that.
12:04You remember this play
12:05I showed a little while ago?
12:06Now let's get out
12:08of Calidio's perspective
12:08and let's take a look
12:09from Bruno Duarte's
12:10point of view
12:11in this play.
12:11He doesn't rest.
12:12Second,
12:13he's always ready.
12:13It's instinct.
12:14A lot of strikers' instinct.
12:16When Calidio takes this shot here,
12:18look,
12:18the chance of a rebound
12:19coming to the middle of the box
12:20is small.
12:21It's not big.
12:22And look at how Bruno Duarte,
12:23it's already his instinct.
12:24Look,
12:25he takes this lateral step
12:26to get in front of the defender
12:28who's just watching
12:29the ball go over there
12:30and if by chance
12:31it hits the post,
12:32I don't know,
12:32the goalkeeper makes a bad save,
12:34gets it wrong,
12:35he palms it badly
12:36back into the box.
12:37The one who's much better positioned
12:39to get a rebound
12:40coming in this direction
12:41is Bruno Duarte
12:42instead of the big defender
12:43who's just standing there
12:44looking back
12:44thinking there's nothing else
12:45to do in the play,
12:46you know?
12:46And this step here,
12:47you see it looks like
12:48the feeling you get
12:49is that even Bruno Duarte himself
12:51doesn't really believe
12:52the rebound is coming
12:53but it's instinct, man.
12:54He takes a lateral step
12:55and already turns
12:55on instinct.
12:57When the ball ends up
12:58over there
12:58in the wide channel,
12:59what does he do?
13:00Look,
13:01blind spot.
13:01He's already in the blind spot
13:03of the guy marking him
13:04and this is where
13:04the guy marking him
13:05realizes like,
13:06damn,
13:06I lost track of the play
13:07here for a second,
13:08let me get back,
13:08let me get into position.
13:09Then it's a perfect cross,
13:10right?
13:10There's no stopping that.
13:11That ball down the channel
13:12was spot on.
13:13The big defender
13:14is really in a tough spot here.
13:15He could even score
13:16an own goal,
13:17it's really hard to clear.
13:18He let the ball go by
13:19and Bruno Duarte
13:19went there
13:20and pushed it in.
13:22Totally focused
13:23from a really unlikely rebound
13:25to getting into the blind spot
13:27and the cross
13:28was perfect.
13:30Wonderful.
13:30It made his job easier
13:32but him being focused
13:33the whole time
13:33is really important.
13:34Do you know where else
13:35that was important?
13:35Against Santa Fe,
13:37look at this,
13:37here.
13:38He's occupying both
13:40defenders who are marking him.
13:41It's normal.
13:42Two defenders marking
13:42the center forward
13:43so he's already pushing
13:44closer to goal.
13:45The last line
13:45is getting closer on purpose
13:47right near the six yard box
13:49because he's creating space
13:50for this run here
13:51and he's also opening up space
13:52at the edge of the box
13:53right there
13:54at the top of the arc.
13:55When the ball doesn't go to him,
13:57he quickly steps back
13:58to stay on side
13:59and this is a guy
14:00who's totally focused
14:01100% of the time.
14:03This little step back
14:04might seem like nothing
14:05but man,
14:06the number of strikers
14:06who come in
14:07and do their job
14:08like he does.
14:09The defense goes back,
14:10the striker comes back
14:11kind of slowly
14:12and then in one of those plays
14:14there's a shot,
14:15a rebound
14:15and the ball falls to him.
14:16If he slacks off,
14:17he's offside
14:18so he's already learned
14:19his lesson about slacking off,
14:20you know?
14:20The play goes up there,
14:22he acts like he's sure
14:23the cross is coming to him
14:24because he has nothing to lose
14:25by acting like that,
14:26you see?
14:26He gets the timing
14:27of the cross
14:28and the timing
14:29of the defender's anticipation,
14:30the run to get a lot of lift,
14:31look.
14:33The timing of everything
14:34he gets right
14:34is perfect
14:35but this cross
14:36wasn't good for him
14:37but he's still alert
14:37and the ball comes loose
14:39and when Vasco manages
14:40to win this ball here,
14:41look,
14:41he sees it,
14:42look at him right here.
14:44He sees that the ball
14:45is on the wing
14:46in a crossing opportunity,
14:47he's already alert again,
14:48he crosses paths
14:49with his teammate,
14:50goes to the far post,
14:52there's a positional advantage
14:53over the big defender
14:54who's marking,
14:55he's in front,
14:56he puts his arm in front,
14:57puts his body in front,
14:58the penalty area
14:59is the striker's best friend
15:00at these moments,
15:01the ball goes there,
15:02he shouts,
15:02leave it,
15:03I'm behind
15:03and boom,
15:04puts it in.
15:05These plays illustrate
15:06situations where it's
15:08the player who makes
15:09the decision,
15:09the player who decides,
15:10a scenario that could have
15:12several possible outcomes.