Renato Gaúcho is irritated with Grêmio in the Copa do Brasil: “Carinho no…”

Renato Gaucho vented after the classification of the Guild at Brazil’s Cup. During the night of last Wednesday, 12, Tricolor eliminated the bahia on penalties after a draw and 1-1 in regulation time. In a press conference, Portaluppi defined that the place in the semifinals was “suffered”, but that winning it this way was “good”. Even so, he did not fail to show some frustration with his team.

It is worth mentioning that Bahia took the lead in the match against Grêmio, who had a below-average first half. The various mistakes that the team made during the initial stage generated a series of criticisms from Portaluppi in the conversation with journalists. He didn’t reveal what he said in the locker room to the athletes, but he made it clear that they weren’t words of love. Renato Gaúcho revealed that some players needed to wake up for the match.

“Don’t want to know the words in the locker room. It wasn’t affection. I do a lot of affection, but not in the locker room. I had to give an ear pull. And we got it right. We were giving them a lot of space, letting them dominate the ball. They had fast players. They had space in their goal. We hit a lot of things at halftime. About three players had to wake up, otherwise they would leave the game, I said. There’s no time. You have to focus on work. It was in this sense that we corrected what had to be corrected That little bell in the ear of some“, vented.

Even though he was irritated by Grêmio’s first half against Bahia, Renato Gaúcho praised the team’s performance in the Copa do Brasil: “We had the chance to go ahead and we wasted the penalty. They scored in the end. We got it right at halftime, we got more offensive and we looked for a tie. Nobody wants to lose. We fight too. I didn’t like my team in the first half, we gave them space. But in the second half we improved a lot of things. It was suffered. But suffering is good“.

It is worth mentioning that Grêmio already knows who they will face in the next phase of the Copa do Brasil. This is because, after its classification, Tricolor saw Flamengo eliminate Athletico-PR and get a place in the next phase of the national tournament. The two games, still without defined home field, will be held between the 9th and 16th of August.