Opinion – Juca Kfouri: Palmeiras suffered to prevent another vice-leader from approaching him

This time it was by a thread, or by the deflection of the beam by conductor Paulo Henrique Ganso, that the isolated leader of the Brazilian Championship avoided losing to Fluminense, again better on the field and unable to transform superiority into victory.

In a dark night of Gustavo Scarpa, perhaps hurt by the boos of his former fans at Maracanã, Palmeiras found themselves strongly uncomfortable and involved by the tricolor ball touch, although they scored another great goal on a bicycle, this time already motorized by Rony, wasted two good chances in passing mistakes of the rival and suffered, suffered a lot, to leave Rio de Janeiro with the 1 to 1 to maintain the advantage of eight points over the vice-leader.

Knowing how to suffer has become a cliché even better than the third thirds, high and low lines, fads to describe situations as old as football, because, the rare reader and the rare reader know, the language is alive and renews itself, sometimes for the worse.

But Palmeiras suffers differently.

Just have eyes to see, this is an old expression, the body language of alviverdes players.

You don’t see a parasitic gesture, a bulging look, an argument between them, coldness prevails even in the worst moments of pressure.

Palmeiras is not given the right to play badly, in the same way that Flamengo is denied, as happened in the second half for the Paulistas — and for the Cariocas against São Paulo, at Morumbi.

Here, in all proportions, the trajectory of Palmeiras in recent years has already been compared to the victorious saga of Bayern Munich. There are those who prefer to compare it to the resilience of Real Madrid, parallels rejected by Abel Ferreira, especially when he is called, to his irritation, a retranqueiro.

The defensive care of the least leaked team in the championship is undeniable, with only 16 goals conceded in 24 games.

The irritation is fully justified because the team is also the one with the best attack, 38 goals, one more than Fluminense — and Flamengo, before facing Botafogo.

Palmeiras are not even given the natural care for those who, this Tuesday (30), will play, at Arena da Baixada, the first leg of the Libertadores semifinals, against Athletico Paranaense. And look at that nobody was spared on Saturday (27), that is, the Brazilian Championship was given the due respect demanded by critics.

In short: what fun is it to stone broken windows?

Public utility

If he owned a TV station, he would buy the rights to the movie “The Debate” and show it for a whole week at the most varied times to reach the young people who will vote for the first time on October 2nd, the old people who will eventually vote for the last time. and all the other voters who will decide the course of the country.

Directed by Caio Blat, with a script by Guel Arraes and Jorge Furtado, with anthological performances by Débora Bloch and Paulo Betti, politics, marital relations and, above all, the anguish of the press, parade with admirable realism.

The only slip-up is in the lack of warning, at the beginning or end of the film: any resemblance is NOT purely coincidental.

In time

Have you ever seen someone issue a receipt like the Bolsonaristas after Lula’s interview with JN?

in time 2

Those who are not watching Manchester City games have no idea what they are missing.