palm trees was imposed this Monday from comeback to Botafogo by 1-3 in Rio de Janeiro, and extended his lead at the head of the standings to ten points Brazilian Championship, when there are nine days left to go.
In a duel between Portuguese coaches, the team he leads Abel Ferrera slowly undid the group trained by louis castrowho advanced in a pyrrhic way through the striker Tiquinho Soaresin the stadium Nilton Santos.
That advantage vanished soon after, when the steering wheel Gabriel Pires he touched the ball with his hand inside the area. Child penalty and goal Gustavo Scarpa for the São Paulo team. The Paraguayan goalkeeper could do little Roberto ‘Kitty’ Fernandez.
Before the break, the Uruguayan side Joaquin Piquerez advanced to the left, left his marker with a nice cutout and crossed low to Maykewhich certified the comeback.
After restart, Pyres made another mistake in an offensive drive and gave possession to Duduwho, after a good connection with Rony Y Danielput the 1-3.
The palm trees wanted to add emotion to the match with the expulsion for a double yellow card of the midfielder Ze Rafaelwhen there were still twenty minutes to go before the final whistle.
For its part, Endrick Moreirathe greatest young promise in Brazilian football today, had to stay on the bench again while waiting to make his debut with the first team.
The striker, on the agenda of several of the most powerful clubs in Europe, including Real Madrid and Barcelonais breaking records at the base of the palm treesbut Ferreira he is reluctant to make him debut with the first team.
The Portuguese coach defends that the 16-year-old attacker has to comply with a schedule to adapt to elite professional football.
With this win, palm trees leads the Brazilian League with 63 points, ten more than Porto Alegre Internationalwhich beat Saturday 1-0 at Saints and assumed the second position of the classification in this 29th day.
Third place is Fluminense, who fell 2-0 to Atletico Mineiro, the current champion, although this year he is in the middle of the table, as Botafogo.
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