The palm trees won this Tuesday 1-3 in his visit to Athletico Paranaense with goals from Paraguayan Gustavo Gomes, midfielder Gustavo Scarpa and promising youngster Endrick, and all but guaranteed the Brazilian Championship title with four games remaining in the tournament.
The green team from Sao Paulo could be crowned Liga champions on Wednesday if Internacional and Corinthians, the only ones with a mathematical chance of clinching the title, suffer several setbacks, even draws, in their against for thirty-four days.
Tuesday’s victory at home to Paranaense, which reserved its starters for Saturday’s game where Flamengo, also Brazilian, will face off for the Copa Libertadores title in Guayaquil, allowed Palmeiras to add 74 points and open away thirteen integers to Internacional, their main threat, when twelve points remain in dispute.
But Internacional will host Ceará on Wednesday for matchday 34 and, with a possible victory, could reduce the leader’s advantage to 10 points.
Corinthians, fourth in the standings with 57 points and 17 units behind the leader, can also maintain a mathematical chance of catching Palmeiras if they get two wins in their pending games: this Wednesday against Fluminense and next Saturday against Goiás.
Two victories will allow the Corinthians to reduce the distance that separates them from Palmeiras to eleven points with four games remaining in the League.
The Liga leader achieved an important comeback in his visit to Paranaense after, despite dominating the game, he allowed defender Matheus Felipe to open the scoring for Curitiba in the first half.
The green team from Sao Paulo only managed to equalize in the 13th minute of the second half thanks to the goal of Gustavo Scarpa, their main player of the season.
Palmeiras increased their dominance and their pressure from the 16th minute after sending off Argentine Tomás Cuello which left Paranaense with one player down for the rest of the game.
At 24, the young Endrick, one of the main promises of Brazilian football today, put Palmeiras ahead by completing an assist from Rony with his head, a goal that, at the age of 16, made him the youngest footballer in scoring group professionals . The footballer is on the radar of Real Madrid and FC Barcelona. Paraguayan Gómez completed the scoring also with a header and after a corner kick by Scarpa.
Sterile victory of Flamengo, second
In Tuesday’s other game, Flamengo, who also reserved part of their starters for Saturday’s Libertadores final, beat Santos 3-2 at the Maracaná in Rio de Janeiro with goals from Uruguayan Giorgian de Arrascaeta , the young Pedro and the veteran Marinho . Argentine Gabriel Carabajal and Alex are discounted for Santos.
The victory allowed Flamengo to move up to second place in the Brazilian Championship standings, but, 13 points behind Palmeiras, they no longer have a mathematical chance of winning the title.
Four days before the final of the Libertadores, Flamengo said goodbye to Brazil with an important victory and their starters fit and oxygenated, and Paranaense with a defeat that left them in sixth place in the standings, 23 points behind of the leader.
The two Brazilian rivals in the final of the Libertadores plan to travel to the city of Guayaquil on Wednesday, where they will determine the successor to Palmeiras, the champion of the last two editions of the continental tournament.
Source: La Verdad
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