Athletico recovers and Coritiba seems irrecoverable

After having deleted the Botafogoinside the Nilton Santos stadium, in Engenhão, for the Copa do Brasil, the athletic again punished the team from Rio, this time for the Brasileirão, at the Arena da Baixada.

The maximum penalties taken with perfection and goalkeeper Bento’s saves earned the classification, confirming that Furacão has become a specialist in knockout tournaments.

But Athletico recovered in the Brasileirão by presenting good football, well organized and, even without some starters, being superior to Botafogo.

Alex Santana’s great goal, in a long distance shot, was simply spectacular.

Worrying is the fact that the clumsy defender Zé Ivaldo almost spoiled the victorious night with the unnecessary maximum penalty committed on striker Janderson at the end of the match.

Lucky that the referee misinterpreted and the VAR, look at the Brazilian VAR, failed in a clear and indisputable move.

For the Atleticanos, rehabilitation was worth it after strange defeats by Bragantino and the reserve team of Grêmio, breaking a long invincibility at the Arena da Baixada.

Now it will be the Copa Libertadores de América, against Libertad, to confirm the tendency of specialist in group competitions and knockouts in the decisive phases.

For more than one hundred days without winning a single and miserable match, the current team of coritiba seems unrecoverable. Veterans do not contribute to improving performance and young people do not help due to their lack of talent.

Less bad than the scorer Alef Manga has returned and already left its mark. Coach Antônio Carlos Zago must be stunned by so many observations, analyses, experiments, tweaks and tests without the results appearing.

It was no different in the defeat to Palmeiras, superior in every way. The hope of the thigh-white fans is that the field factor will make the difference again.

Or, on the other hand, that the team manages to improve the performance in the matches against the irregular Santos and Internacional, scheduled for Alto da Glória.