With the result, the Santos team went to five points and remains in the 19th and penultimate place, while the Ceará team went to 12 points, in sixth position
More than 35,000 fans attended, on Monday (12), but returned to disappoint, just tied without goals with the, in a game that ended the eighth round of the Brazilian Championship. With the result, the Santos team went to five points and remains in the 19th and penultimate place, while the Ceará team went to 12 points, in sixth position. The game started with the teams seeking the attack from the beginning. Ceará concentrated their moves from the left, with the intersections of Matheus Bahia, which were directed to ice cream on the right, always with the company of Pedro Henrique. Already Santos always responded to the left of his attacks with Soteldo. The Venezuelan always sought Tiquinho Soares in the center of the Ceará area.
If the Santos fans had little to celebrate in the first 45 minutes, he was happy at the break with the presence of Neymar, who still recovers from injury. The player was honored on the Allianz Parque lawn a commemorative plate for the 100 games in Vila Belmiro, completed against Atletico-MG. Neymar’s presence seemed to excite Santos, who returned better for the final time and pressed Ceará. But Soteldo, the most skilled player of the team, arrested by the left-wing, could not find a companions to make the plays.
The last minutes were marked by Santos desperate in search of victory, while Ceará abused the counterattacks. The crowd supported Santos until the end, but it was Ceará who almost opened the scoring, 48 minutes with Lelê. At 50, after counterattack, Deivid Washington was knocked down by William Machado, who received the red card. VAR was triggered. Card and fault were annulled and the game ended 0 to 0.
*With information from Estadão Content
Posted by Sarah Paula
