Athletico and Londrina have their seventh knockout duel

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Athletico and Londrina will face each other for the seventh time in the knockout phase of the Paraná Championship in the last 10 years. The first leg of the quarter-finals will be this Saturday (2), at 4 pm, at Estádio do Café. The return in Curitiba will be on Sunday (10), at 6:30 pm.

Since 2014, the teams have met four times in the quarter-finals (2016, 2020, 2022 and now in 2024), twice in the semi-finals (2014 and 2017) and decided the 2018 State Caio Júnior Cup, which went to Furacão .

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In clashes, Athletico was only eliminated once, in the 2014 semi-finals, the year that Tubarão became champions. On that occasion, the team from the capital won the first leg 3-1, but was defeated 4-1 in Londrina.

With the exception of 2018, which was a single game at the Ligga Arena, Rubro-Negro took the classification in the other games, always in round-trip clashes. Highlight is the 2020 quarterfinal match, when Furacão scored 5-0 at home after a 1-1 draw at Café.

It is also worth remembering that, since the competition has this format from 2020 onwards, Athletico has advanced to the semi-finals every year – twice against Londrina itself, once against Paraná and last year they beat São Joseense.

Zé Ivaldo scored the winning goal of the Caio Júnior Cup against Londrina in 2018

General history of the confrontation

The clubs have already faced each other on 155 occasions, with 72 wins for Athletico, 42 wins for Londrina and 41 draws. Furacão found the net on 224 occasions, while Tubarão scored 153 times.

For the Paraná Championship, there were 131 games, with 63 wins for Athletico, 32 wins for Londrina and 35 draws, with 190 red-black goals against 119 goals for Albiceles. The data is from the official Tubarão website.