Leader Botafogo stumbled at home after massacring the penultimate place, Cuiabá, by finishing almost 30 times without scoring a single goal, and Palmeiras is once again flashing light in Rio’s rear-view mirror, just four points behind, in addition to having the advantage of receive him in the third to last round.
The picture can be summarized as follows: there is an understandably traumatized leader and a vice-leader accustomed to running over in the final stretch.
How Corinthians runs over the finish line.
To the point of winning his fourth consecutive victory against Vitória, fifth game undefeated, and now being able to look with a certain disdain at the relegation zone and set his ambitious sights on the Copa Sudamericana, the only cup he doesn’t have, no matter how many fans there are. even thinking about the Libertadores.
Everything, in fact, smiles at Parque São Jorge, apart, of course, from the administrative chaos and colossal debt.
After beating arch-rival Palmeiras, he saw them defeat Grêmio, to overcome the tricolor gaucho. Another tricolor, Fluminense, which threatened it, falls to Inter, and for the third round in a row the results are all generous with the black and white’s intentions.
It’s better just the Alviverde projections, years away from having to do the math either to avoid falling or to compete in all the cups, because, at the very least, he participates in all of them. As much as he needs to get his feet back in shape and regain his cool head when it comes to scoring goals.
Goal drought
Palmeiras only defeated Grêmio 1-0, when they could have won 6-0.
The goal came from Estêvão, now the Brazilian’s top scorer, with 12 goals, one more than Pedro, the Flamengo player who has been out since September 1st, in the 25th round. It therefore took eight rounds to overcome the top scorer, which demonstrates how difficult it is to score goals in Brazilian football.
Forgotten Vini
Once the votes of the 99 journalists who chose Rodri as Ballon d’Or were revealed, three of them did not even mention Vinicius Junior among the ten best, something so absurd that one of them, the Finnish Juha Kanernva, embarrassed by his oblivion, promised to resign as judge.
The Namibian juror, the black Sheefeni Nikodemus, reportedly denied the Brazilian a summons because he disliked his behavior on the field, which would be disrespectful towards his opponents, certainly not due to the Madrid striker’s anti-racist fight.
The third person not to mention Vini is the white Salvadoran Bruno Porzio, who claimed not to consider the striker a complete player and voted the black Englishman Jude Bellingham as the best in the world. He said further that he considers Vini “unineuronal”, which, between us, shows that the citizen is “wise”.
Rodri ended up elected with just 41 points more than Vini — and it is increasingly difficult to allege reasons other than the technical preferences of each voter.
Rodri absent
In the off-season, Spanish Rodri is so missed by Manchester City that the four-time English champions lost their fourth in a row, something that hasn’t happened since 2006 and that has never been seen with him on the field.
On the contrary, City, with him, went 74 games unbeaten, the greatest individual record by a player in the history of football.
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