He flamenco beat the leader this Saturday 1-2 Botafogoshortened the distance from his rival and recalled his excellence in Rio de Janeiro in a match on the twenty-second day of Brazilian Championshipa heartwarming classic in Rio de Janeiro where Bruno Henrique and Victor Sá rose to fame.
Argentine Jorge Sampaoli’s men added 39 points and temporarily rose to third place, awaiting the game between Gremio and Curitiba this Sunday, a match in which the Porto Alegre club is the great favorite and can beat Flamengo again . Despite the defeat, Botafogo remains comfortably in first position, with 51 points, an advantage of 11 over Palmeiras, its immediate followers.
Marlon Freitas’ own goal just two minutes after the start of the game opened the scoring in favor of Flamengo and put ‘Glorioso’ on alert, who did not rest and pressed until equalizing with a great goal from Victor Sá.
The decisive advantage came to Sampaoli’s team in the second half with a ball that Lucas Perri couldn’t stop, kicked by Bruno Henrique, who a few minutes earlier had the score annulled for offside.
It was a balanced match with Botafogo dominating the first half and Flamengo the second with wasted goals such as Argentine Víctor Cuesta’s attempt which ended up going past Matheus Cunha’s goal.
The strategy of starting the game with recently recovered Tiquinho Suárez in an attempt to get an early lead didn’t work for Portuguese coach Bruno Laje, although Liga’s reigning goalscorer tried.
The match was marked by the tension of the fans, who, a few hours before the game, staged a riot in three neighborhoods of the city, with 12 detainees and three injured. The events forced the authorities to step up security actions around the Nilton Santos stadium, where around 700 uniformed personnel are scheduled to participate.
Atlético Mineiro lost to a draw
In other matches of the day, Atlético Mineiro lost to a draw against Athletico Paranaense in a match where Vitor Roque finished as a hero after scoring the ‘Furacão’ goal. The young promise from Paranaense, signed by FC Barcelona, who played as a starter, was more enthusiastic about the complementary game, although he missed several opportunities to increase the score.
This Sunday, the main course is the match between Corinthians and Palmeiras, a classic from São Paulo where riots can also happen among the fans, something that was warned this week by the Prosecutor’s Office, which asked for a postponement the fight for security reasons, a request to which they fell on deaf ears.
Source: La Verdad
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