Opinion – PVC: Endrick doesn’t explode and Campeonato Paulista has a goal drought

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Endrick still hasn’t managed to be the inventor of goals that fans and press expected. It could be the big differential in relation to the Brazilian title. He hasn’t made it until this moment. This is part of the reason why Palmeiras played two games at Allianz Parque and didn’t score a single goal.

Ties against São Bento and São Paulo, both by 0 x 0. Three goals annulled, one of them by Rony, in the classic.

It’s not for lack of reinforcements. Palmeiras are studying Matheus Henrique, they also intend to have a left winger, but the new players should arrive before the start of the Libertadores group stage. In addition, last year’s reinforcements do not perform as expected – Bruno Tabata, López and Merentiel – and Raphael Veiga has good moves, without shining for ninety minutes.

Without Scarpa, this makes a lot of difference.

Never before has it been so obvious that the top teams use the State Championship as year-round, almost pre-season prep. There will be interest when the finals arrive.

It is interesting to note that Abel Ferreira reversed the start of the game, at the beginning, with Piquerez behind, together with Gustavo Gómez and Murilo, Marcos Rocha advancing as a winger. Perhaps to oblige the recently signed David, from São Paulo, to pursue him.

São Paulo is enchanted by Méndez. Fabián Bustos, former coach of Santos, often says that there are few players with the professionalism that resulted in the success of Antonio Valencia, at Manchester United, champion of the Champions League in 2008. Méndez has.

Rogério Ceni intends to make him the main responsible for the departure of the defense. For now, he takes turns with Rafinha and Rodrigo Nestor, building the three-man game. It didn’t work so well and Palmeiras was largely superior to the classic, bland.

Of the 27 submissions up to 35 in the second half, 15 were from outside the area. Game with few chances to score, which is explained by the start of the season combined with the time of 16:00, with 30 degrees of temperature. It seems that one thing has nothing to do with the other, but you can calculate and realize that night games are better in summer.

The state ones started boring. In Rio, due to the imbalance, in which it is known that Flamengo is capable of thrashing Nova Iguaçu by 5 x 0, despite drawing with Madureira by 0 x 0. In São Paulo, by the opposite. No team has won twice in the first two rounds. Trio de Fero failed to win more than once, Palmeiras against Botafogo-SP, São Paulo against Ferroviária and Corinthians from Água Santa.

It follows the logic of this century, in which there were 23 Paulista Championships and only five with the four giants in the top four positions. By tradition, one of the big ones stays out of the finals.

The best thing about this start of the season is the crowd. There were 40 thousand in Allianz Parque, against São Paulo, 37 thousand with São Bento, 39 thousand for Corinthians x Água Santa, 45 thousand for São Paulo x Ituano.

Tactically, Palmeiras is very similar to last year, in the same system with a three-man departure. São Paulo is back to using a four-man defensive line and Méndez could be the new addition.

UNFAIR

Spanish coach Luis Enrique won the Champions League and two Spanish leagues with Barcelona. It is not true that he won nothing. He also led young Spain to the Euro semifinals. Part of the problem with foreign national team coaches is that few people know them.

VARIATIONS

It’s not just Corinthians’ performance that fluctuates, as coach Fernando Lázaro admitted. Systems too. It is natural for Lázaro to make tactical changes. They are tests, to understand what can and cannot work. The central point is to have Renato Augusto in shape, to play every time. Then it can get better.

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