Morumbi saw a Majestic much easier than one could imagine.
The youth tricolor imposed itself on the veterans from the beginning almost to the end of the classic.
Rogério Ceni chose to rejuvenate his team, and Vítor Pereira still didn’t have time to make choices in his.
What was seen was the physical predominance of the host team well mixed on one side and the slowness of the more experienced visitors. Corinthians didn’t even have the intended possession of the ball until Welington, at the end of the first half, opened the scoring, in a beautiful shot from the left corner of the area.
Corinthians had threatened only once, in a kick from outside the area.
The second half went even more smoothly for São Paulo when, in a stand-up move, Calleri gave Alisson the 2-0 in the 16th minute.
It looked like the end of the semifinals and indeed it was, but not without surprises because football reserves unthinkable evil.
The goalkeeper Jandrei, with all the merits, won the position of the veteran Tiago Volpi and, called twice, appeared with two great saves in kicks by Roger Guedes and Giuliano.
As he went out to play, he awkwardly lost the ball to Jô, who reduced it to 2 to 1 and put a question mark on the more than 53,000 fans present at the stadium, as there would still be ten minutes left to play, with six stoppage time.
São Paulo will decide the state championship for the third time with Palmeiras, and has the advantage of being the champion in the two previous decisions, in 1992 and last year.
Unlike, however, what happened in 2021, the second game will have the command of alviverde, with a single crowd.
The Choque-Rei on Wednesday (30), in Morumbi, has everything to be very interesting.
Palmeiras won 1-0 in the classification phase, but suffered and, in fact, did not deserve to win, because they retreated too much. The tie did not occur for details.
That performance earned severe criticism of the work of Abel Ferreira, who swears he didn’t send the team back.
Now, with his contract renewed until the end of 2024, and with his wife and two daughters coming to Brazil, the Lusitanian who became an idol of the former club in the Italian colony, for decades much longer than that, will make his team attack the owners of the House?
Against Bragantino, by winning 2-1 and qualifying for the third consecutive final in the state, and ninth in Abel’s short trajectory in alviverde, you can’t complain about the team having taken advantage and relocking. The possible criticism lies in the difficulty of finishing the games, of taking unnecessary risks, but then the coach is not responsible.
Beating Palmeiras is the objective of the moment.
If São Paulo manages to do it, in the season in which it didn’t give preference to the first tournament of the year, it will wash away the tricolor soul, even if it doesn’t become the champion, or rather, two-time champion.
cruel football
Botafogo needed to defeat Fluminense by two goals to go to the final in Rio de Janeiro, against Flamengo. Getting to her was almost all he could have hoped for.
And fought. Made it 1-0 in the first half, at 48 minutes, incessantly sought the saving goal in the second, at 91 minutes, both with the bull Erison, but took the goal, which classified Flu, from Cano, at 97. An immeasurable evil!
Fla-Flu will decide for the 12th time the Campeonato Carioca, with 6-5 for the red-blacks, favorites in the 7th.
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