Palmeiras have not lost since the first round of the Brazilian Championship when surprisingly, at home, they were defeated by Ceará by 3-2.
Since then, there have been 18 games also valid for Libertadores and the Copa do Brasil, with 14 wins and draws against the duo Fla-Flu, Atlético Mineiro and Goiás.
It is at the feet of São Paulo, this Monday night (20), to prevent the continuity of the undefeated series, in the Choque-Rei 336, a classic played for the first time in 1930 and with 113 victories for the São Paulo side, against 112 for the palm tree.
It will also be Choque-Rei 69 for the Brazilian Championship and there the advantage is for Palmeiras, with 23 wins against 16 defeats and the prevalence of draws, 29.
Numbers are numbers, nothing but numbers, but, in this case, if you look at the most recent meetings, they say more than the statistical coldness, even because São Paulo and Palmeiras have the results of the two last clashes, in the last week of last March and first of April.
With an exemplary performance at home, the tricolor made it 3-1 in the first game of the state decision and took for granted the conquest of the second championship followed to embitter, in the rival’s stadium, the relentless rout by 4 to 0 in the fight back.
Best home team in the championship with four wins and a draw (against Ceará!), this is the time for Rogério Ceni’s home team, with a single crowd, without forgetting that the last defeat in Morumbi was exactly for Palmeiras, 1-1 0, in the first phase of Paulistinha.
There is no doubt that Palmeiras is better and this is the only doubt that no one has because the certainty of the result does not exist in any football game, even more so in classics.
And Abel Ferreira has already said that one day Palmeiras will lose, to hurt him more by defeat than it makes victory happy.
Special attention to the duel between Calleri and Gustavo Gómez, the Argentine top scorer against the Paraguayan defender.
The whole of Brazil today is São Paulo. Even the Corinthians.
insinuating
Corinthians hinted at a number of goals against the crumbling Goiás team, in Itaquera.
He insinuated, insinuated and only scored one goal, which earned the victory by 1 to 0, from a penalty. Non-existent penalty, ball in the defender’s support arm falling to the ground.
Thus, insinuating more than doing, by leaps and bounds, Corinthians is the vice-leader of the Brazilian.
And you can even finish the round in first place.
As long as São Paulo beats Palmeiras.
By ten goals difference…
Frustrating
The frustration with the quality of the classic between Atlético Mineiro and Flamengo, won by the miners by 2 to 0, was directly proportional to the expectation surrounding the meeting between two of the favorites for the title.
It had already been like that when Palmeiras and Galo and Palmeiras and Flamengo faced each other without scoring a single goal in 180 minutes.
Thus, in the triangle of favorites in this first round, the mineiros scored four points, the paulistas only two and the cariocas only one.
The legendary coach Osvaldo Brandão (1916-1989), an idol of Corinthians and Palmeiras, said that championships were won against the minors, because the bigger ones shared the points they disputed.
At least for now the facts are supporting him, although the complaint here is about the level of games that were so expected.
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