How to lose two precious points – 02/26/2023 – Juca Kfouri

At least there was peace in Vila Belmiro, which was limited to receiving a few angry flip-flops on the lawn while Santos lost 2-1 to Corinthians.

He narrowly lost, because the arbitration, who knows if intimidated by the previous protest of the hosts, had already annulled a legal goal by Yuri Alberto, with the collaboration of VAR which, in Brazil, is an instrument that demoralizes honesty and justice.

Corinthians, still far from playing away from home as they are playing in Itaquera, had the victory on their feet when, at the end of the game, they conceded the tie, first with a bad pass by the boy Giovane and then with the penalty committed by the experienced Maycon in Mendoza, two Corinthians players who had just entered the classic.

So neither Santos depends on their result in the last round to qualify, nor Corinthians to have an advantage in the semifinal.

Because players and referees make mistakes, although we are more understanding with the former and we resist what the master Tostāo described so well again in his column: the unpredictable loves to make its surprises to the point of turning a victory in the hand into a tie in the back.

São Paulo disappointing

São Paulo faced three Serie A teams at Paulistinha: they lost to Corinthians, and after six years without defeat at Morumbi at Majestoso, to Bragantino, always 2-1, and a goalless draw with Palmeiras , who was only concerned with beating Flamengo in the Brazilian Super Cup, as he managed, and even so he played much better than the tricolor team.

By also losing, at home, with more than 52,000 fans, by 1-0, on Saturday (25), to São Bernardo, whose team plays on an equal footing with any other, even though it is from Série C of the Brasileirão, the São Paulo reveals worrying inability to project its participation in the final phase.

He even has doubts about whether he will maintain the command advantage against Água Santa in the quarterfinals.

It is scary.

Amazing St. Bernard

After winning one game, drawing two and being thrashed in Mirassol, Bernô for those who are close to him, he started beating whoever came his way. He added seven consecutive victories, against Corinthians, including, and even slept from Saturday to Sunday two points ahead of Palmeiras, with whom he will play the most interesting game, and riskiest for the big classified, in the quarterfinals.

He only beat São Paulo by 1-0 despite having deserved to win by more and having lost, before halfway through the first half, the brain of the team, midfielder Vitinho.

Among all the Saints of Paulistinha, be it Santo André, São Bento, or even Água Santa, the miracle is actually São Bernardo.

The PM of the DF

The Military Police of Brasilia were so in awe to contain the confusion in the Rio classic between Botafogo and Flamengo, with the right to invaders of the lawn, that, without concessions to impunity, it is possible to understand the ease found by the vandals on January 8, when more than the lawn, the houses of the Three Powers were invaded.

The contingent assigned to provide security at Mané Garrincha looked like a troop of idiots with helmets and batons.

And the Botafogo SAF could well hire a psychologist to treat the heads of a bunch of out-of-control grown men in front of the kids from the red-black B team.

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