Palmeiras only owes fantasy – 04/30/2023 – Juca Kfouri

The third round of the Brazilian Championship was opened by a game without any rivalry and huge expectations of the lover of the beautiful game: Fortaleza and Fluminense, in Castelão, was the game that everyone wanted to see.

Because the two tricolors fulfilled what they promised, although the carioca has preserved his main players to face River Plate, for Libertadores, this Tuesday (2), in Maracanã, another unmissable match for the quality of the teams.

Flu paid a high price for the necessary prudence: it lost by 4 to 2 and took a ball from Ceará, in addition to being indebted to the gods of the stadiums because it escaped, thanks to the extraordinary performance of veteran goalkeeper Fábio, 42, from taking eight .

But not even the absence of John Arias, Germán Cano, Paulo Henrique Ganso and Keno diminished the quality of the show provided by the pupils of Juan Vojvoda and Fernando Diniz.

Almost 40,000 fans left the stadium satisfied and provided income of just 650,000 reais.

Right after the match, at Casa Verde, Derbi, a century-old rivalry with more than 41,000 players, earned around 3.5 million reais and the joy was limited to the new Palmeiras victory, 2-1.

Little, poor, if you consider the current situation of Corinthians, which came to frighten, almost tied with Paulinho when kicking the 2-2 over the crossbar of Weverton, victim of a goal found by the rival, scored against by Piquerez.

Those who attended the classic were certain that they would see a rout, no matter how classics are classics and vice versa.

Palmeiras is generous in triumphs and stingy in putting on shows.

Roughly speaking, because the calculation does not involve the benefit of the member-fan, each ticket cost R$ 87.50 in São Paulo, and R$ 16.25 in Fortaleza.

Let’s face it, Northeastern fans paid much less to see much more, in addition to the fact that Tricolor do Pici’s payroll was R$ 6 million and Verdão’s R$ 32 million.

Was it hard to go beyond the indisputable victories and provide some fantasy to your supporters, to use Abel Ferreira’s vocabulary?

To what extent does the team’s stinginess have to do with the triumphant coach’s permanent state of irritation?

It is true that it is necessary to consider the exhaustive schedule demanding permanent care on the eve of the exhausting trip to Guayaquil, Ecuador, stage of the next commitment of Raphael Veiga and company, already on Wednesday (3), against Barcelona.

Faced with the chance to thrash the biggest opponent, Palmeiras was on the point of resurrecting him, something unthinkable before the Derby started and even more so when, at 35 minutes, the hosts were already winning by 2-0 and gave the clear feeling that, at the very least, they would turn into two to end up with four.

What!

There was even a certain amount of suffering in the final minutes and celebration at the final whistle, something entirely outside the forecasts of not just the whites, in general, even the blacks, who breathed a sigh of relief with the tight score.

It is certainly pleasant for Palmeirenses to see that Corinthians relax when they lose a little, but that is not the point, it is the quality of football.

Because this Palmeiras could become the greatest champion in history, who knows how to win the World Cup, but to really deserve to be called an Academy, it needs to shine more.

There is a sensitive difference between academicism and resultism.

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