Santos Futebol Clube, Parte III: Tricampeão das Américas [R]

I agree that Elano will probably be the one who get's benched. He hasn't played well in a long time. It's a pity that Adriano will most likely be dropped. He has been one of our best players in my opinion.

Yesterday we debutted on this year's edition of Copa BH (U20), against Fluminense. We had a very bad start, conceding 2 goals in 6 minutes, but managed to get a hold of the game somehow. In the second half we scored, and we were close to equalising, when our defender Wallace got sent off... That disrupted our momentum, and FLuminense killed the game: 3-1.

It wasn't a good start for us, I reckon that our team lacks organization in attack, too many players trying to solve everything by themselves... We must improve our teamplay.

Our highlights so far goes to Gustavo (very tall and strong CB), Alison ( skilled CMF) and Geuvânio ( very skillfull wide forward/midfielder, free kick specialist).

Is there anywhere that I can watch the games online?

is Anderson too green to get some playing time each game? I have noticed he sporadically gets time here and there.

You mean Anderson Carvalho? If that's so, yeah I believe he deserves more play time, in one of the few opportunities he had he played out of position, in the left.... I'd rather see him playing than the likes of Possebon and (the now gone) Charles... Elivelton was also a very good DMF in our youth teams.

Anyway, our U19s will play against Coritiba today, the game starts in one hour. Anyone wanting to watch, try this link:

http://www.canaistv.com.br/assistir-SporTV-ao-vivo


YOu must wait 30 seconds before closing the ads that appear ove rthe video, then you need to click the VERY small red "x"s that appear on them to close the ads.

I wanted to call you guys sooner but I just woke up hehe. Anyway mods I dunno if I'm allowed to post such links here, if I'm not feel free to edit this post and warn me, just be merciful please!

Santos Sempre Santos.



EDIT: Btw, these are the players in our squad;

Goleiros
Alternir, Hailson e Marcus Vinícius

Zagueiro
Gustavo, Wallace, Edson, Paulo Henrique e Jairo

Laterais
Wesley Douglas, Geuvânio, Emerson e Caique

Volantes
Alison, João Inácio, Romário, Leandro, Kássio e Thomas

Meias
Pedro Henrique, Luís Eduardo, Osman e Tinga

Atacantes
Dimba, Diego e Gustavo

sorry, meant Felipe Anderson.

Ahh Felipe Anderson... Yeah he is too green. He has potential, but his decision making is still very poor... It will be hard for him to get a spot in a midfield of Henrique/Arouca/Ibson/Ganso/Elano .

2-1 HT, AGAIN we conceded two goals in 10 minutes of play, our defensive system is really letting us down with those slow starts... Sort it out already damnit.

Offensively, we still depend too much on individual talent. We need more team work!

Highlight so far is Pedro Castro. Some good passes, and a goal.

EDIT: 3-1 FT, we lost again... This team is not giving me much hope....

So it seems like Muricy is trying a Arouca/Ibson/Elano/Ganso midfield... That's one VERY offensive formation >_>

I wonder if Arouca won't be overloaded with the defensive duty of the midfield, even more because our sidebacks love to go foward. It surprised me, Muricy likes to prioritize defense, yet I reckon that this formation leaves our defense VERY exposed... Let's see how it works, we know that we can't expect much defensive work from Elano since he is out of form, and I dunno how Ibson is gonna play.

Anyway, this is the formation we will most likely see, keep in mind that Danilo is with the Brazilian U20 NT.

-----------------------Rafael-----------------------
----Pará-------Dracena------Durval----------Léo----
----------------------Arouca-----------------------
-------------Elano---------------Ibson-------------
-----------------------Ganso----------------------
---------------------------------Neymar-----------
------------------Borges---------------------------

I'm expecting a great game... I already miss watching my team play, with all those match rescheduling ( lol is that even a word?) and stuff!

I hope you don't attack our right side too much, Pará is "the map of the mine!". That plus Elano's fatigue will create a true avenida!

Brasileirão is pretty much all or nothing for us, since we are already qualified for Libertadores... Our only objective in the tourney is to win it all, so we must claim all the points we can!

Good luck Mengão, I hope we get to watch a memorable game!

This is gonna be such a great game.. I can't wait. GL Mengão m8.

If this is our lineup Muricy did cave in to Elano's reputation cause Adriano would be a better choise tbh giving Elano some rest..can't wait to see in what shape Ibson is coming in.

I doubt Arouca has it in him to be a 1st volante in such a lineup cause he doesn't have that type of defensive presence in him. he'll need alot of help and sadly bar Ibson I can't see anyone giving it to him, unless Neymar and Ganso came back from Argentina understanding tracking back and working to the team on defence is an obligation - which I doubt

Is Airton gonna play for you guys?

And now Renato will score off a free kick just cause you called him that

Really great to hear Airton won't play tbh, with our midfield we'll be playing alot of the ball and a guy like him could be a real problem.

Spooky!

I have a bad feeling about Renato as well...


In other news, I totally missed our last game in the Taça BH U19... We couldn't score against Bahia and the game ended 0-0, it seems. Sorry for not warning you guys about the game, I totally forgot!

1 point in 9.... Damn this is horrible. Not a good crop, I guess.

Lineups are as you guys posted.

Neymar with a new hairstyle lol.. can't wait to see Ibson combining with the rest of our midfield.

What a start! 1-0 Borges!! Ze-who?

GOLACOOOOOOOOOOO Neymar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3-0!! candidate for goal of the year.. Neymar is just using and abusing people left right and center since the start of the game.

3-2 ffs.

Are we back with Dorival Júnior or is Muricy still our coach? what a crazy game lol, looks like us from 1-2 years ago, not the Santos of Muricy.

This game is worth all the expectation.. amazing so far.

WTH did they do to Elano's PK shooting ability over there in Argentina? these 45 minutes had enough events for 3 games.

What a game.. was worth staying awake.

Neymar de novo. Keep the lead this time.

We're playing with fire here.

Get Elano out and bring Adriano in.. our midfield is too exposed and Arouca can't do it alone, he doesn't have that presence.