Hugo Souza defends a penalty, Corinthians holds Palmeiras and is Paulista champion

After six years, the Corinthian fan can finally release the cry of champion. He managed to hold the goalless draw against Palmeiras at Neo Chemistry Arena and became champion of the Paulista Championship of 2025, winning his 31st Cup of the State. The achievement is mainly due to a player, who saved Corinthians from the goal that would take the match to the penalties: Hugo Souza. The Corinthian goalkeeper took Raphael Veiga’s penalty in the second half, at a time when Alviverde was pressuring. It arrived for the game with the advantage of won the outward match on March 16. Any draw guaranteed the title for home owners. Already the In his sixth final, he wanted the four consecutive championship. If the initial minutes of the game were missing and confusing principles in all the fouls that were marked, the end was a traditional classic, with confusion and expulsion of Martines, who hit a slap in Marcelo Lomba’s face, which also ended up taking the red.

At 7 minutes, a bunch between Hugo and Vitor Roque worried the Corinthian fans, as the goalkeeper needed service on the field, but managed to stay in the game. Despite having no goal kick until 12 minutes, it was Corinthians who occupied the opponent field, with downhill . The first arrival of Palm trees It was 21 minutes, in a corner kick and header of Micael that passed the left side of Hugo’s goal. At 26 minutes, Martines pulled the play, Depay dribbled the marking and found Garro to kick cross and demand from Weverton, who defended and avoided the goal. The first stage of the match was without great chances, which made the few goalkeepers work and the match was to the break without goals.

On the way back to the second half, Alviverde took more initiatives and went more to the attack, but did not create a great opportunity. The bid that burned the game happened after 22 minutes, when Felix Torres, who already had yellow, overthrew Vitor Roque at the edge of the entrance of the area and the arbitration scored a penalty. Despite the delay in confirming the penalty or not, the arbitration maintained the field marking. Raphael Veiga went to charge and Hugo defended, driving the faithful fans present at the stadium.

Abel Ferreira was expelled by complaint in the penalty bid. I wanted the expulsion of Félix Torres, and the judge did not give. But minutes later the Corinthian player scored another foul in the entrance to the area, on the same Vitor Roque and there was no way, took the red and left Corinthians with one less until the end of the game. In search of the result, the alviverdes moved. It came out Anibal and Mike, and entered Flaco López and Richard Ríos. With one less, the alvinegros had to defend themselves, put André Ramalho and Ryan, and left Carillo and Garro. Palmeiras went up and tried to find a goal to take the game to the penalties. But it failed and in the end still fell into the provocation of the opponents, which generated a great confusion.

Alvinegros provoked and Alviverde accepted the provocation of Memphis Depay, who stepped on the Soteldo -style ball, in a game against Vasco in 2023. The bid generated confusion and caused the expulsion of Andrés Martinez and Marcelo Lomba. The confusion caused the game to be extended until 106 minutes – 16 minutes in addition. In the final minutes of the game, Yuri Alberto had a chance to kill the game in a Corinthians speed play, but Weverton defended and kept Palmeiras alive for a while in the game. The Corinthian euphoria to celebrate the title, made the match needed to be paralyzed once again because of flags released on the field. With the match resumed, Corinthians held the result and secured the title of the championship, isolating even more as the greatest champion of Paulistan.