The Brazilian coach Tite confirmed this Friday the departure of the technical command of the Canary Islands team, after the elimination, in the World Cup, against Croatia.
In the press conference after the game, Tite spoke of a “painful defeat”, but assured that he was leaving “in peace” with his work, before announcing an “end of the cycle”.
In front of the journalists, at the time of his departure he did not want – and he assumed until “he did not have the capacity” – an analysis of his career at the head of the team, leaving the authorship of that clarification to “time, which can respond better”.
“The pain -for more human, balanced, coherent, conscious that it may have-, the emotion, is touched,” he lamented.
Regarding the game -which only had goals in extra time-, he acknowledged that suffering a draw “with 13 [minutos] the second half is difficult” and also affected the mental strength to respond to “a situation like this”.
Petkovic’s goal came from a Croatian counter-attack, at a time when Brazil was looking for a second goal, drawing criticism from the Brazilian public and accusations of a certain “disorganization”, but Tite disagrees.
“First we were in an offensive action, putting volume up front, and the play was interrupted,” he explained. After a ball “sneezed from the front” that Danilo was still pushing, there was a “round trip and a ball [que] pull bottom”.
“We managed to come back and close the central part of the field, but the ball came back, finished off, deflected and entered, in a single finish,” he lamented.
The last controversy of the game ended up involving Neymar, who would be the author of the fifth penalty, not taken because Marquinhos missed the fourth.
Faced with this decision, Tite explained that the Brazilian star took the “fifth and decisive penalty” because, thus, the player with the most quality and mentality was under “greater pressure.”
Source: TSF
