Santos had two goals from Marcos Leonardo, 18, to beat Fortaleza 2-0, on Thursday night (25), and take an important step to escape relegation to Serie B of the Brazilian Championship.
One of the club’s youth teams, he entered the halftime in place of Diego Tardelli, 36, who felt muscle pain, and opened the scoring with a penalty kick in the 25th minute when Fortaleza was better in the game. The match was valid for the 35th round.
With the result, Santos reached 45 points, the minimum set by coach Fábio Carille to escape detachment. Bahia, first in the relegation zone, has 37 points and two games less compared to Santos. The northeastern team visits Atlético-GO, with 41 points, on Monday (29), at 19:00.
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Fortaleza, with 52 points, will continue in the fight for a spot in Libertadores.
The victory was celebrated as a title. Santos will have one of the most complicated sequences. On Sunday (28), the team will visit Internacional, who are fighting for a place in the Libertadores classification zone.
Then, on Monday (6), they face the vice-leader Flamengo, at Maracanã, and say goodbye to the competition against Cuiabá on Thursday (9).
In the first round, the team from São Paulo was unable to beat any of these opponents, at most tying with Internacional (2 to 2) and losing to Flamengo (4 to 0) and Cuiabá (2 to 1). This last result even sealed the resignation of Fernando Diniz.
Fortaleza, on the other hand, returns to the field on Friday (3) against Juventude, at 19:00, at Arena Castelão.
With a good crowd in Vila Belmiro, the home team counted on Marinho’s return and tried to retain the ball and exchange passes from the defense field. But it was Fortaleza who had the first big chance in the first half, with a header by Robson in which João Paulo played for the bottom line.
Santos came back from the break with two casualties, Marinho, 31, and Diego Tardelli himself, who were replaced by the young Gabriel Pirani, 19, and Marcos Leonardo. At 22, Ronald put his hand on the ball inside the area, and Marcos Leonardo had the personality to catch the ball and hit the penalty.
At 44, he had an assistance from another boy from Vila, midfielder Pirani, to fill the goals of goalkeeper Marcelo Boeck.
During the celebration, the club’s idol Serginho Chulapa, moved, entered the field and hugged the athletes.
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