José Carlos is crazy about football and prepared during the week to live Saturday and Sunday in the most intense and pleasant way he could.
Mestre Tostão will never understand how he is able to watch so many games at the same time, although JC confesses that curiosity is greater than pleasure, because he would love to see one game at a time. As it is not possible, he sees everything at the same time and told the column how his weekend was, especially Sunday.
On Saturday, he hoped Santos would not be relegated at Paulistinha and was thrilled with Ricardo Goulart’s little fish that saved Peixe from drowning (3-2), although it wasn’t enough to qualify him for the quarterfinals – which could end up being positive in preparing the team to play the Brazilian with dignity.
At the same time, the football fanatic saw the providential victory of the mixed São Paulo over Botinha, again at the end of the game (2 to 1), to keep the chance of reaching the semifinals as home team.
But the best of Saturday happened in Beira-Rio, where the visitor Grêmio ran over Inter, put them 3 to 0 and practically eliminated Colorado from the Gauchinho finals, taking the ball only to score three goals.
Sunday started early. JC wanted to see Mbappé, Messi and Neymar and saw Monaco score 3-0 at PSG, which the Argentine did not have. PSG will win another Ligue 1 depressed.
He continued with Manchester City 4, Southampton 1, apparently in an easy game, but that was only decided when Pep Guardiola put in the game the decisive Mahrez and Foden after half of the second half.
Still for the FA Cup, in the beginning of the Brazilian afternoon, Liverpool suffered to beat Nottingham Forest, from the second division, by 1 to 0, also because it spared its main players, from the wingers to the deadly Salah and Mané.
City and Liverpool, who are fighting head to head for the Premier League title, will also play against each other in the Cup semi-finals.
So, it was time for Paulistinha again, to follow the leader Palmeiras, in Bragança, and the vice-leader Corinthians, in Novo Horizonte.
Abel Ferreira actually spared his holders, nor took them to the bench, with the exception of the Paraguayan Gustavo Gómez. Enough to draw 1-1 and remain the only undefeated player in the league, although he did enough to defeat Bragantino for the first time at his home in 2022.
Vítor Pereira, on the other hand, also climbed the alvinegro reserves, but took the stars and put them all in the second half to obtain the tight victory (1-0) that guaranteed second place in the general classification and made the São Paulo victory useless.
Strange that Pereira did not make the debut of the goalkeeper Ivan and kept Cássio, who was beating clothes, taking the ball on the crossbar, making beautiful saves and suffering with the relegated Novorizontino.
But what was really important was the game at Maracanã, with the expected victory of Flamengo, 1 to 0, although unfair, because Vasco, at least, managed to be eliminated from the final with equality on the score.
To end Sunday, to crown it, Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Yes, it is not the same “El Clásico” that we are used to seeing, given the current advantage of the madridistas, 15 points ahead of the rival.
Even without Benzema, at home, the merengue favoritism was such that the 4-0 imposed by the Catalans is one of those to go down in history.
JC slept happily with this football guy.
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