Tite implies that Pochettino doesn't know how to use Neymar
"If a coach to Neymar kicks wings, I will call him a donkey. Model of a player with quality like Neymar, being bound, will limit a lot of creative capacity," Tite said on Podcast Sextra Estrela. "Creativity is not immutable, but random, depending on the evolution of the match."
At PSG, Neymar is often stone left, and the opposite position belongs to Angel Di Maria, Kylian Mbappe or Lionel Messi last season. Since joining PSG with a world record transfer fee of $ 263 million in the summer of 2017, Neymar's best achievement is 28 goals for the 2017-2018 debut season. Statistics gradually down in the remaining four seasons: 23, 19, 17 and 13 goals.
In Brazil, the role of Neymar changed after Tite was appointed coach in 2016. He played more freely as No. 10 and was a bridge in Brazil's play, instead of frequently breaking on the left corridor. As at PSG.
Neymar touched the ball 395 times through five matches in the 2018 World Cup, where Brazil lost to Belgium in the quarterfinals. Coming to Copa America 2021, the Brazilian tournament lost to Argentina 0-1 in the final, the number of Neymar's ball touches up to 438, but the number of balls dropped sharply. According to the newspaper, Sportmail, winger will tend to pull more balls, to pass people or perform crosses.
Neymar is currently ranked second in the list of strikers with the most goalscores in Brazil's history with 74 goals, only three goals behind legendary Pele. Tite emphasized that Neymar may make a mistake in the central area, but that is compensated for their creativity and the benefits of this 30 -year -old star to the team. He analyzed: "Neymar is not a problem, but a solution. Sometimes many people say that Neymar kicks in the middle of the yard will make more mistakes. But this position makes Neymar make more mistakes, because of the creative task Often decisive meaning ".
In this interview, Tite revealed to Vinicius that the current role of the Real striker in Brazil similar to Neymar at the 2014 World Cup. 61 -year -old coach said: "In a Brazilian training session, I told Vinicius That 'he was Neymar of 2014'. At that time, Neymar of Barca and Brazil played on the left wing, and Neymar is currently the center of the gameplay ".
Brazil is the leading candidate for the 2022 World Cup championship, when leading the South American qualifying round with an unbeaten record, including 14 wins and three draws. At the tournament in Qatar at the end of the year, Tite's teachers and students were in the same table as Serbia, Switzerland and Cameroon.
