Bola Rolando: Operário still can dream, but needs to return to football

It was not simply a defeat. The problem of the Operário Ferroviário in Serie B was the way he lost to Youth. The 3 to 0 in Caxias do Sul showed a team without reaction, disorganized and, for much of the game, completely dominated by the opponent.

Losing to Youth, today among the best teams in the competition, would not be absurd. What bothers you is losing without competing.

After the third goal, right at the beginning of the second half, the feeling was that the match was over. In fact, for me, it had ended long before.

A performance to forget

Few players escaped a negative evaluation.

Wagner made good defenses again and avoided an even bigger score. Cuenu and Joseph had reasonable participation in the defensive system. Boschilia tried, ran and searched for the game. Gaius Dantas was also among those who demonstrated something.

Matheus Trindade can still be placed in this relationship.

And practically stops there.

It’s too little for a team that still intends to look at the top of the table.

The Worker was unable to control the sides of the field, suffered mainly in one of the corridors and presented an enormous difficulty to react when he was behind the scoreboard. In front of an organized youth and on a very good night, the ghost simply found no answers.

It's been difficult. But it's over?

No, no, no.

It would be easy to look only at the 3 to 0 and decree the end of any hope. But football doesn’t work that way.

Has access become more difficult? Much harder.

Is that likely? Not today.

Is that impossible? Neither did he.

The Worker has 48 points, seven games in front and four of these games will be played at home. That needs to be considered.

And there is another important aspect: the Ghost has already shown during this same Series B that it manages to react after bad matches.

Before this trip, it came from a positive sequence. The main problem of the Worker this season is precisely the irregularity. When it seems ready to pack, it drops yield. When he seems to have lost his strength, he wins again.

It is difficult to know which Worker will enter the field in the next round.

The next two games can define everything

There are now two consecutive matches at home.

First, against Botafogo-SP. Then against Goiás.

They're win-win games.

That doesn't mean they'll be easy. There is no easy game in this Serie B final straight. Botafogo himself, even when he does not get the result, has presented difficulties to the opponents.

But the worker has to take responsibility.

If there is still any intention to turn the dream of the Série A into something more concrete, the field command must be enforced.

It is not possible to present again the football shown against the Youth.

Change the coach now?

I don't see any sense either.

There are seven rounds left.

The Worker is guaranteed in next season's B Series and Luizinho Lopes still presents an enjoyment that cannot simply be ignored.

Does the coach have responsibility? Of course you do.

The team took time to present changes during the defeat for the Youth and there were clear problems of positioning and climbing.

But to change the technical command now, in the final straight, would be to believe that there is a magic solution.

It doesn't exist.

Luizinho Lopes does not come into play. And even in a bad performance like the last, the Worker had clear opportunities that his players could not turn into a goal.

The season cannot be summed up as one night.

You also need to look at the glass half full.

The Worker was Paraná champion, made a Serie B without going through the suffering of the fight against the relegation and reaches the final rounds still being able to discuss positions at the top of the table.

That's worth it.

A horrific defeat cannot erase everything.

In the same way, everything that has been done during the year cannot serve as an excuse to accept presentations like the one of Caxias do Sul.

The fan can charge.

And you have to charge.

As long as there is chance, you have to believe

Today, there are teams in a much more comfortable situation. Vila Nova, Juventude, Novorizontino and Criciúma built campaigns that put them in a privileged position.

The remaining fight was tight.

The Worker will need to win games and still depend on the stumbling blocks of the opponents.

It's not the ideal situation.

But as long as mathematics says there is a possibility, the Ghost must go into the field thinking about it.

The most important thing now is an immediate reaction.

Because dreaming of access is still allowed.

You just can't dream of playing like the Worker played against the Youth.

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