DID CARIOCA HURST FLAMENGO IN OTHER COMPETITIONS? CLUB REFUTS THIS IDEA

There is suspicion that Carioca may have hindered Mengo in the competition, as they debuted in Carioca's finals and have been worn down by the sequence of games. But none of that bothers Fábio Mahseredjian, according to the professional's interview with the Trivela portal. The physical trainer on Tite's coaching staff believes that the squad was assembled with exactly that in mind.

The high-level players who are usually on the bench arrived for moments like this. Léo Ortiz, for example, is one of those names. “No, it didn’t hurt anything. The Flamengois a big club that wants to win all the competitions it competes in. This physical wear and tear is natural. All teams have it. Now, we have enough cast to supplant that. The intensity of the game has increased, and this makes the athlete wear out more”, he says, before explaining the choice made by those left out.

“There is no way to measure tiredness. To determine the athletes' physical wear and tear, their physical demands, we monitor each one's minutes. This monitoring is rigorously described in a spreadsheet, and Tadashi (Hara, physiologist) monitors us with their metric demands in the games, in addition to the responses of each individual athlete, with regard to biochemical dosage. All of this makes us make some decisions, but nothing is just one thing, it is always multifactorial”, he explains.

Regardless of what the physical trainer, the truth is that Tite chose to spare seven athletes in the match against Bolívar, this Wednesday (24), for the Libertadores, in which the players on the field felt great fatigue due to the altitude and ended up losing 2-1.

Mais Querido's next commitment is Botafogo. With all the athletes available, with the exception of Cebolinha, Tite begins this Friday morning (26) preparing the squad for the classic against Botafogo. This way, players will only have two days to prepare.