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Opinion – Juca Kfouri: Victories by Corinthians and Flamengo need to be measured without euphoria

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Here comes the boring, boring here, boring there. Here comes the boring to see what is there.

The same annoying that complains when Palmeiras wins a classic only by 1 to 0, and in the rival’s house, as happened in the last Choque-Rei in Morumbi.

After ten brilliant minutes, the scorer opened, instead of remaining dominant, the alviverde gave the ball to São Paulo and got choked, ball on the beam and the devil to four. He won again, it’s true, there’s no denying it, but he could show more, cheer more, make his fans happier instead of breathing a sigh of relief only when the final whistle blows.

“What more to ask of Abel Ferreira, two-time Libertadores champion?”, asks the pragmatic fan to the boring people on duty.

Ask for, for example, the gala exhibitions of the people’s teams last Saturday (12) in front of more than 100 thousand fans, 40 thousand in Itaquera, 63 thousand in Maracanã.

Ponte Preta dropped from 5 and Bangu from 6 against Corinthians and Flamengo, respectively. How wonderful, to spin!

Yes, the ball went back and forth, back and forth, it’s not with me anymore, it goes to the back of the net.

So did the august white-and-white Renato, the red-black Don Arrascaeta, Paulinho and Gabigol, to the joy of the Fiel, to the euphoria of the Nation, which found Flamengo at Maracanã with a new and impeccable carpet, as the sanctuary deserves.

It’s all very good, it’s all very well, but, contradiction! The Palmeiras victory in the classic had much more value than the rout over the Campinas and Bangu teams, both in the penultimate places of Paulistinha and Carioquinha.

It has been said to exhaustion that when a much better team finds an inferior opponent, it has an obligation, even out of respect for the rival and the fans, to score.

Hence, considering that Vítor Pereira is a magician and turned Corinthians into a goals machine, or that Paulo Souza finally found the ideal Flamengo, there is a huge difference.

Pereira, in fact, managed to show how his team wants to be thirsty for the ball, trying to get it back every time he loses it, intense, fast, on automatic. But he knows that Ponte Preta made life easier for Corinthians, almost like taking candy from a child’s mouth.

In the same way that they must have told Paulo Souza about the lack of Maracanã by the Flamengo team, because that’s where the Nation loves to sing “oh, my Mengão, I like you”.

The electricity coming from the stands was largely responsible for the massacre on Moça Bonita’s team, as fragile and helpless as Macaca from Campinas.

Hence it is possible to design very interesting games in the final stretch of the state molds.

Both in São Paulo and in Rio, although for different reasons and situations.

In Rio the semifinals start this midweek, but neither Vasco nor Botafogo seem capable of overcoming the Fla-Flu duo. Therefore, we will have a real test of fire if, as predicted, the decision between red and black and tricolors happens, with a taste of revenge for Abel Braga.

In São Paulo, this Thursday (17th) we will have the clash between Abel Ferreira and Vítor Pereira, who rhyme, but have different solutions.

The first likes to leave the ball with the opponent, the second wants it for himself.

Could it be that even in the green house, in the Derby with fans, the Portuguese alviverde will leave the ball with the Portuguese alvinegro?

​The game does not decide anything, nor will it be indifferent.

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