📹 Manager clashes with reporter after Grêmio defeat: blood sells

📹 Manager clashes with reporter after Grêmio defeat: blood sells This Saturday (12), Grêmio lost 2-1 to Vasco in a comeback win, right at the Arena in Porto Alegre, in Round 27 of the 2026 Brasileirão. The situation left “everything tangled up” in the relegation battle. After all, Internacional, Vasco, Mirassol and Grêmio all have 28 points, but Leão Caipira and Tricolor Gaúcho remain outside the bottom four thanks to a better goal difference (-7 x -11 x -12). Colorado, even with a 2-1 win over Chapecoense at Arena Condá, remains third from bottom because it has fewer wins than the other three rivals in the fight against relegation (6 x 7). In this scenario, the mood at coach Luís Castro’s press conference after Grêmio’s defeat was tense. The experienced 65-year-old Portuguese manager argued with journalists in the Arena press room when questioned about his work in charge of Tricolor Gaúcho.  “I’ve already said that the work in the Brasileirão is not good. And I’ve already told you that the work in the Copa do Brasil was good. And in the state championship it was good. That’s what I said. I know that at this moment what sells is blood. And I know the questions are for me to answer so that there will be blood. That’s it. You already know that I know how people live, the engagement and the clips, I know all that. I did not say that my work was good.” “Today, if we had won, we would be six points above the bottom four and we would say, ‘we are rebuilding, getting there,’ a season that could even be considered not very good, but acceptable. In this case, after this defeat, things are completely different. It is very difficult to accept the result first of all. We could have gone further ahead and we had the possibility to go further ahead, to make it 2-0 twice, and we were unable to kill off the game. My feeling is one of disappointment in today’s match.” This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.