With a hat-trick from Arthur Cabral, the Rio team scored a 3-1 victory over the São Paulo team
O drama do Corinthians in Brasileirão continues. This Sunday, the 17th, the Parque São Jorge team visited the Botafogo and it ended up being defeated 3 to 1with goals scored by Arthur Cabral. The result is terrible for the São Paulo teamwhich still discounted with Rodrigo Garro in the first half. The match was valid for the 16th round.
As a result, the Botafogo takes a leap gigantic on the table. With 31 points, the Rio team reached eighth placeclimbing four steps. Already the Corinthians parked at the bottom of the table and entrou no Z-4 with Grêmio’s draw with Bahia.
Both teams entered the field pressured by the same situation in the Brasileirão (18 points, at the bottom of the rankings). However, Corinthians had “bad news”, as Botafogo had one more motivation: to give an answer to their fans due to their elimination in the Copa do Brasil against Chapecoense. This meant that the home team played their best 45 minutes in the competition so far in the first half.
The first half at Engenhão was extremely intense and he had it all. Truncated game, hard fouls, yellow cards, ball hitting the post, penalty canceled by VAR and four goals, one from Yuri Alberto being irregular in the 43rd minute. Among those that were worth it, it is worth highlighting two great submissions from Arthur Cabralwhich left Hugo Souza completely without reaction.
It didn’t take long for the home team opens the score. In the 6th minute, Gustavo Henrique poorly blocked a Rio counterattack and ended up falling to the ground. Arthur Cabral took the ball in the middle, cleared André Ramalho and shot firmly from distance. Hugo Souza just looked.
The Corinthians response came almost immediately after much insistence in the attacking field. Thanks to a ball release error of the Botafogo defense, Rodrigo Garro had the remainder inside the area and inflated the nets. Botafogo players even complained about Raniele’s foul at the origin of the play, stealing the ball, but referee Felipe Fernandes de Lima validated the draw.
Fernando Diniz’s Corinthians didn’t play badlyhad good exchanges of passes, but it didn’t create such clear opportunities like those of Botafogo. The home team even had a penalty awarded after Gustavo Henrique’s pull on Ferraresi, but after consulting the VAR, the referee decided that the pull did not have enough impact to determine the infraction.
At 31, Arthur Cabral made a painting. A box attacker, he left his area of activity to look for the ball between the Corinthians lines. He took a risk from afar and, again, left Hugo Souza without reactioncompletely still, watching the ball sleep in the back of the net.
The game continued hot and Yuri Alberto equalized in stoppage time after a corner kick, but the assistant determined that Garro had not left the ball in the correct position and the kick had to be redone.
Corinthians seemed come back better from the locker roomwith more ball work and some finishing. Botafogo lowered its lines and started giving more freedom to Fernando Diniz’s men. As a result, coach Franclim Carvalho started to change his team to try to exploit counterattacks, with the entry of Vitinho, for example.
The third goal came precisely from that Botafogo’s change of stance — once again from a failure in the Corinthians defense, and once again from Arthur Cabral. After goalkeeper Neto’s long ball, Villalba took advantage of André Ramalho’s hesitation and guided the ball into the area. Kauan Toledo received the ball and fumbled, but right behind came the number 19 who hit the net for the third time.
A individual delivery of Botafogo players he was essential for the end result. Although Corinthians remained with the ball in the offensive sector, they were few play constructions who actually provided some real threat to goalkeeper Neto. This is the Fernando Diniz’s second defeat in charge of Corinthians in 12 appointments.
DANILO ABSENT
Botafogo faced a unexpected drop before the game with the absence of the steering wheel Daniloby “personal reasons”. A key player with 12 games in the season, he was removed from the list hours before the ball rolled.
Danilo could not be transferred to another team if he completed 13 games for Botafogo. The Rio club considers the player sale in the next windowaiming at European market. Danilo is also on the Brazilian team’s pre-list for the World Cup, with the final call-up scheduled for this Monday, the 18th.
TECHNICAL SHEET
BOTAFOGO 3 x 1 CORINTHIANS
BOTAFOGO – Grandchild; Mateo Ponte (Vitinho), Ferraresi, Alexander Barborza and Alex Telles; Huguinho, Medina (Justino) and Montoro (Santi Rodríguez); Kadir (Kauan Toledo), Arthur Cabral and Villalba (Edenílson). Coach: Franclim Carvalho.
CORINTHIANS – Hugo Souza; Matheuzinho, André Ramalho, Gustavo Henrique and Matheus Bidu; Raniele (André), Carrillo (Dieguinho), Breno Bidon (Allan), Rodrigo Garro (Pedro Raul) and Jesse Lingard (Kaio César); Yuri Alberto. Coach: Fernando Diniz.
GOALS – Arthur Cabral, at 6 and 31, and Garro at 10 minutes of the first half; Arthur Cabral at 24 of the second.
YELLOW CARDS – Mateo Ponte, Medina, Arthur Cabral, Villalba, Alexander Barboza and Alex Telles (Botafogo); Jesse Lingard (Corinthians).
REFEREE – Felipe Fernandes de Lima (MG).
PUBLIC – 17,556 fans.
INCOME – R$ 656.210,00.
LOCAL – Nilton Santos Stadium (Engenhão).
