Jorge Sampaoliafter being dismissed in the Seville and start at Brazil a new adventure on the bench flamencoalready receives the first criticisms for his stubbornness in wanting to impose his strange vision of football on the Rio de Janeiro club.
Criticism (even ridicule) came after the 3-2 defeat against Botafogo despite the fact that the rival played from minute 50 with one player less due to the expulsion of their right-back Rafael. But above all for insisting on the issue that condemned him at Sevilla, his obsession with playing with the goalkeeper and for him to become the first organizer of the game leaving the area and even standing at the same height as the central defenders, something that he already he promoted in Marseille and that in Sevilla ended up being his sentence, with continuous silly losses of the ball in the initiation phase of the game.
Ruthless criticism in the press and messages on social networks in which they sarcastically call him the “inventor” of football or remind him “that it is Santos, not Neuer”, in reference to the goalkeeper of the Rio de Janeiro team, have put the coach on the firing line Argentinian, who has not yet managed to win a match with his new team in the Brazilian Championship, in which he has accumulated two consecutive defeats, against Internacional de Porto Alegre (2-1) and the aforementioned against Botafogo 2-3 against more of 53,000 people.
With Mendilibar, another Seville
Sampaoli was hired by Sevilla in October to replace Julen Lopetegui and, after failing to get the team out of danger of relegation, he was sacked at the end of May. Since then, with Mendilibar, the Andalusian team has become the best team in the League in April, coming out of the bottom and even dreaming of Europe, and has eliminated Manchester United from the Europa League after drawing (2-2). at Old Trafford and thrashing him 3-0 at Nervión.
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