This Sunday (17), and face each other for the 20th round of. With two less games, the teams miram around the leader, but the confrontation carries a weight greater than just the fight for points. It’s a duel is a reissue of the round of 16, when the team from São Paulo won and eliminated alvinegro carioca from the competition. Outside, Abel Ferreira wants to repeat the success of the International Cup, secure the three points and increase the distance to the rival.
Botafogo is the fifth place with 29 points, while Palmeiras has seven advantage and occupies the third position. Both have 17 games played, one less than Flamengo and two behind, the vice-leader. That is, an alviverde victory means to the top, press the opponents and have the possibility to plan how to face the arrears against saints and youth.
For this, Abel will need to circumvent an unprecedented scenario, as Botafogo has no further the Portuguese and friend of coach Palmeirense, Renato Paiva. Alvinegro has changed command and Davide Ancellotti, son of the coach of the Brazilian team Carlo Ancelotti, took the technical command and has lived a good phase since it arrived. Only lost only one match against Cruzeiro, as well as six wins and two draws.
Palmeiras and Botafogo Postmential performance
In their favor, Palmeiras has the recent rout on the university student by Libertadores, who leaves the club with an important advantage in the knockout and relieves the pressure for the duel soon for Brasileirão. The result also fulfills an important role of strengthening the coach’s work at a postmential troubled moment, with the elimination to Corinthians in the Brazilian Cup.
Alviverde won Ceará at Allianz Parque in the next game and amended with the out -of -home defeat by Libertadores. The game in Peru also gained importance by the positive effect it can cause in important pieces for Abel Ferreira’s team, as Vitor Roque, made another good and game and scored a goal and assistance in the duel. Flaco López also shook the net twice and came out at a time of high the game by the Brasileirão.
The proper functioning of the two players can mean an important “reinforcement” for Abel Ferreira, who saw his cast perform below and expected from the World Cup, much dependent on Paulinho – no wonder, was the author of the goal of the Palmeirense classification in the duel against Botafogo in the round of 16. Shirt 10 is injured and is an embezzlement, but Palmeiras has Flaco again in a good moment and Vitor Roque and can start a scorer sequence.
Adding all the games after the end of the Club World Cup, Palmeiras adds five wins, two draws and two losses. There were 15 goals scored, seven of them from the duo Flaco and Roque, four for the Argentine and three for the Brazilian, and ten goal conceded.
The opponent scored 13 goals in this clipping, but only conceded three balls in the net since the return of the Brasileirão. The positive data shows that new Italian coach strengthened the defensive system and corrected some of the problems seen under the command of Renato Paiva.
