On Saturday night (27), Cruzeiro had the ambition to assume, even provisionally, the leadership of the Brasileirão. However, Vasco frustrated the plans of the Minas Gerais team.
With a 2-0 win in São Januário, the Rio team extended their good phase, with seven unbeaten games with Brazilian Championship and Brazil Cup.
Cruzmaltino now has 30 points, 11th, while the fox parks in 50, without exceeding Flamengo, which has 51 and can still be surpassed by Palmeiras, currently with 49.
At 7 minutes, Rayan opened his head to Vasco in the hill. At 15 of the second half, Paulo Henrique recovered the ball already in the attack and kicked in the corner of Cassio to enlarge.
It was Vasco’s second consecutive victory in the championship, after the triumph over Bahia midweek.
Atletico x Mirassol
In the other games of Saturday for the 25th round, the highlight was Atletico-MG’s victory over Mirassol 1-0 in Belo Horizonte.
The goal of victory was scored after 7 minutes, with Vitor Hugo concluding with his head a corner kick. Still in the first stage, Junior Alonso was expelled to hit a elbow in Danielzinho.
Even with one more player for all the second half, Mirassol could not match the scoring in the MRV Arena, suffering only his fourth setting in the championship, which interrupted a sequence of six games without losing.
The Rooster, on the other hand, has not won for six games.
In the other two matches on Saturday, Fortaleza defeated Sport 1-0 at Castelão with Lucas Sasha’s goal; While Juventude and Internacional drew 1-1 in Caxias do Sul, with goals from Alan Patrick to Colorado Enio for the home team.
