Opinion – Juca Kfouri: Flamengo’s victory in Itaquera was so predictable that those who doubted were funny

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It is objectively idiotic to repeat that in football anything can happen, until Corinthians eliminate Flamengo in the return game at Maracanã.

How easily predictable that Flamengo would beat Corinthians in Itaquera.

If not, let’s see.

The alvinegro made three resounding signings to compete in Libertadores this year: Paulinho, Renato Augusto and Willian.

The first two are out of combat and were not even considered for the first leg. The third, with a muscle problem, was out hours before the People’s Classic started.

The reason for the three casualties is clear: material fatigue, predictable since so many aging hires were announced with pomp and circumstance in Parque São Jorge.

With that, Corinthians entered the field with six players trained at home and with five more from the base on the bench.

They lost 2-0, they should have lost more, but it could have been a less costly defeat if they hadn’t spent so much on the veterans who weren’t even on the bench.

Elementary.

As elementary as observing that on the other side there was a team with such decisive players as Dom Arrascaeta, Gabigol, Pedro, Éverton Ribeiro, not to mention Cebolinha, Arturo Vidal, all of them also very expensive, with the difference that the healthy Flamengo can make such investments and the indebted Corinthians cannot.

When the draw for the continental tournament determined the crossing of the two most popular teams in the country, it was possible to imagine some chance for the Paulistas if they could be complete. They couldn’t and took the dance they took in the second half.

Cariocas ate the bread that the devil kneaded to balance their accounts.

Corinthians, by resorting to financial doping —I must not deny it, I pay when I can, but I continue to spend even if you cover me—, did not play in the state championship final, it has practically no chance of being a two-time continental champion, will have to undo the 2nd 0 imposed by weak Atlético Goianiense to reach the semifinals of the Copa do Brasil and has few illusions that it can be Brazilian champion for the eighth time.

He had already committed the irresponsibility of paying a lot to have Luan, who came from two lackluster years at Grêmio, with more than known problems in the football world.

Will the rare reader and the rare reader think that all this is mere irresponsibility, just a sign of mismanagement, of inordinate passion, that capable of blinding, of preventing the vision of things as things are? Or the audacity of gamblers used to winning by bluffing?

No, ladies and gentlemen!

These are unmentionable arrangements that bleed the coffers of clubs and fill the pockets of top hats and businessmen.

Like the false shepherds when exploring the faith and ignorance of so many people across the country, even with prayers in the palaces of Planalto and Alvorada.

There were more than 40,000 deluded faithful in Itaquera, who sang before, during and even after the red-black tour in Itaquera, the marble cathedral that is in Abreu’s account, waiting for a new direction at Caixa Econômica Federal.

What is a new and dangerous bet.

Because the bravado, to say the least, Andrés Sanchez hates Fernando Haddad, despite both being from the PT, precisely because he was not met by the then São Paulo mayor in his unrepublican pretensions.

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