Peixe’s performance left the fans furious, and the first half ended with boos
O Santos received a gift on Tuesday (14), the day he turned 114 years old. Face the Deportivo Recoletaa Paraguayan team that came with reserves to Vila Belmiro, in their first international game, because they are fighting against relegation in the national tournament, in the second round of Group D of the Copa Sudamericana. The almost ten thousand fans expected a rout, but were embarrassed to see the team alone tie 1 to 1. The Santos goal was from Neymar in another apathetic game from number 10.
Santos won the first point in the continental competitionwhile the Paraguayan team has two. The lead in the group belongs to Deportivo Cuenca (three), who play on Thursday (16), in Argentina, against San Lorenzo, with one point.
The fragile Argentine team decided to attack Santos and suffered the first counterattack in the fourth minute. Gabriel Barbosa escaped on the left and crossed for Neymar to open the scoring.
Anxious about the ease of exchanging passes near the Recoleta area, Santos made a lot of mistakes in setting up the plays and did not bother goalkeeper Toledo, despite more than 70% possession of the ball.
The Santos fans started to lose patience with the team’s lack of initiative, which only bothered the goalkeeper again in the 30th minute, after a good pass from Neymar, which Gabriel Barbosa did not take advantage of.
In the 32nd minute, Neymar hit Figueredo’s head with his shoulder and got a yellow card. Three minutes later, the number 10 got the ball, after the goalkeeper made a mistake, but made a mistake when trying to score a cover goal.
But the worst was yet to come for Santos. In a ball raised in the area, Luan Peres scored a penalty on Figueredo. Ortiz hit well and equalized the game to the delight of all members of the Paraguayan team, in the 46th minute. The first half ended with boos.
Santos returned to the final stage with the same formation, but with more patience to exchange passes. The problem is that the team had no inspiration to find the best alternative to break the Paraguayan blockade and nothing exciting happened on the field, much to the dismay of the fans in Vila.
Coach Cuca put Rollheiser, Miguelito and Tachiano on the field in the 20th minute, and in the first attack Rollheiser, with a header, almost scored the second. Afterwards, the Santos abused high balls and made the job of goalkeeper Toledo easier.
Despite being slow and a little disorganized, Santos had a chance with Miguelito, Rafael Gonzaga, Adonis Frias, but stopped there. It was a sad chapter in the club’s 114th anniversary.
TECHNICAL SHEET
SANTOS 1 × 1 DEPORTIVO RECOLETA
SANTOS: Gabriel Brazão; Igor Vinícius (Lautaro Diaz), Adônis Frias, Luan Peres and Escobar (Rafael Gonzaga); Willian Arão, Gustavo Henrique, Gabriel Bontempo (Rollheiser) and Neymar; Moisés (Miguelito) and Gabriel Barbosa (Tachiano). Coach: Cuca.
SPORTS RECOLETA: Toledo; Figueredo (Marcelo Medina), Cardozo, Pereira and Mendoza; Schupp (Nuñez), Lopez (Masi), Galeano (Garay) and Dominguez, Vidal (Junior Nogueira) and Ortiz. Coach: Jorge González Frutos.
GOALS: Neymar at four and Ortiz at 46 minutes of the first half.
YELLOW CARDS: Pereira, Neymar, Bontempo, Galeano, Toledo and Ortiz.
ARBITRATOR: Fernando André Vejar Díaz. (Chile).
INCOME: R$ 504.381,26.
PUBLIC: 9,648 fans.
LOCAL: Vila Belmiro Stadium, in Santos (SP).
