In a very busy game on Sunday afternoon (5), with five goals, Sao Paulo came out ahead, but saw Palmeiras could turn to 3-2, in a duel valid for the 27th round of the Brazilian Championship, accompanied by almost 34,000 fans at Morumbis.
Sao Paulo started the best game and opened 2-0 advantage in the first half. On the way back to the break, however, with the attacking duo formed by Vitor Roque and Flaco López inspired, Palmeiras managed to reverse the disadvantage.
After the visiting team begins the match taking more danger to Rafael’s goal in the early minutes, Sao Paulo took advantage of a pressure marking to gradually control the game in midfield, until it reached the first goal of Marcos Antônio, 14 minutes.
In recovery in possession in midfield, Sabino passed the ball to the midfielder, who made a precise release towards the large area that found Luciano. The striker appeared free in front of Weverton and got rid of the goalkeeper to push into the net for the second game in a row after suffering from a fast of 13 goalless matches.
The home team remained superior after the goal and reached the second twenty minutes later. The back Enzo Díaz made a good move on the left, won dispute against Vitor Roque and Felipe Anderson and crossed to the middle of the area, with Chilean striker Gonzalo Tapia anticipating the defender to enlarge.
In the second stage, Palmeiras started again, but Sao Paulo soon managed to balance the confrontation once again, with the game becoming quite disputed in the middle of the field.
In the first clearest chance of goal, Palmeiras discounted, at 24, with Vitor Roque completing with his head crossing from Mauritius on the left. Team scorer, the striker reached ten goals with the green shirt in the Brazilian.
Alviverde took advantage of the momentum to shortly after reaching the second goal. At 29, Maurício, once again, served Flaco López at the entrance of the large area. In a good phase, the Argentine hit placed, taking from Rafael’s reach, to reach his ninth goal in the Brazilian.
At 43, it was the turn of Paraguayan striker Ramón Sosa, who had entered twenty minutes earlier instead of Felipe Anderson, to receive an intersection from Aníbal Moreno from the right and anticipate the Sao Paulo defenders to turn the scoring.
After the end of the match, the Sao Paulo players still complained a lot with referee Ramon Abatti Abel, for an unmarked penalty on Tapia, overthrown by Allan inside the area, when the score was 2-0. The judge considered it a normal game shock.
With the result, Palmeiras reached 55 points and momentarily took over the leadership of the Brazilian. With the same number of points, Flamengo still enters the field this Sunday, at 18:30 (Brasília time), against Bahia, in Salvador.
Already São Paulo followed with 38 points and fell a position in the classification table, to 8th, being overtaken by Fluminense.
In the next round, Sao Paulo goes to Porto Alegre to face Grêmio, while Palmeiras receives RB Brangantino, at Allianz Parque.
