Murilo scored the only goal of the game to maintain the advantage of ‘Verdao’ in the league
After the victory of Fluminense, which is second, both teams are still separated by nine points
palm treeswith a solitary goal from defender Murilo, defeated this Wednesday at home by 0-1 to the Atletico Mineiro and maintained the nine-point lead in the brazilian league soccer. At the close of the twenty-eighth day of the Brazilian Championship Series A, the team from São Paulo, led by the Portuguese Abel Ferreira, reached 60 points, nine more than Fluminense, who scored on the date. With the defeat, Mineiro, last champion of the League, still does not get off the ground and remains in seventh position with 40 points. The ‘flu‘, now 51, won the Maracanã stadium by 4-0 about him youthwith goals from Samuel Xavier, Michel Araujo, Colombian Jhon Arias and Argentine striker Germán Ezequel Cano, the tournament’s top scorer.
In the other games, Sao Paulo (37 points) thrashed Avaí de Florianópolis (28) 4-0 on Sunday, in a game brought forward by their trip to Argentina to play the final of the South American Cup against Ecuadorian Independiente del Valle. On Tuesday, Santos (37) beat Athletico Paranaense (44) 2-0, led by experienced coach Luiz Felipe Scolari and Copa Libertadores finalist. Already this Wednesday, Corinthians (47 points) beat Atlético Goianiense 2-1 (22); Fortaleza (34) beat Flamengo (45) 3-2 -the other finalist in the Libertadores- and Coritiba (31) won 1-0 over Ceará (31). Cuiabá (30) beat América (31) 1-0; Internacional (50), third in the table, gave up a 0-0 draw with Bragantino and Goiás (37) lost 0-1 to Botafogo (37).
