There was a Tiquinho in the middle of the road – 06/25/2023 – Juca Kfouri

The most anticipated game of the Brazilian Championship left something to be desired in terms of technique and emotion, although it was exemplary in demonstrating why Botafogo leads with seven points ahead of second place — now Grêmio, who took the place of Palmeiras.

With a well-defined game plan, Glorioso let Palmeiras play until they reached their field and started to make life difficult for Alviverde.

In the first finish in Rio, halfway through the first half, Tiquinho did what he has always done: the winning goal for Botafogo, his tenth in the tournament, in a smart move, but a goal that Weverton could have avoided.

The goalkeeper did not avoid it, he saw Raphael Veiga wasting his fourth penalty in 32 charged with the alviverde shirt, just as he saw, and up close, eyes wide open, almost terrified, Victor Sá play out the 2-0 also in the second half.

True, it wasn’t even as far out as the missed penalty.

Palmeiras collided with the solid defensive scheme in Rio and even submitted to the constant risk of counterattacks, in the second defeat followed by Abel Ferreira to coaches from his compatriots —the first to Renato Paiva, from Bahia, and now to Luís Castro, the heartthrob of Lonely Star.

While Glorioso passed the fire test, Palmeiras has a complicated table ahead, with Athletico Paranaense, at Arena da Baixada, Flamengo, at home, and Inter, at Beira-Rio.

Abel Ferreira must know Carlos Drummond de Andrade and he knows that “in the middle of the road there was a rock, there was a rock in the middle of the road”, in the 12th round, called Tiquinho.

How many more will there be?, that is the question.

kind visitors

São Paulo lost to Cruzeiro (1-0) in Horto and continued without winning away from home.

Corinthians lost to Athletico Paranaense (1-0) in the Baixada and followed with just one victory as a visitor.

Both played badly, but while the tricolor ended up the victim of a goal against a Cruzeirense player, who participated in the bid, in offside (same as the goal scored in 2021 by the Palmeiran Gustavo Gómez, for São Paulo, then, well annulled), the alvinegro escaped of being thrashed, an obviousness that escaped Vanderlei Luxemburgo, able to say that his team was superior in the second half and that the goal conceded was the result of a set piece, although it was not.

Nothing strange for someone who has confused Ferroviária with Fortaleza and seems to live a parallel reality.

Paulista Foursquare?

With a draw that night, in Parque São Jorge, Corinthians will guarantee a place in the semifinals of the Brazilian Women’s Championship after beating Cruzeiro by 2-1 in the first leg.

With that, he will join three other teams from São Paulo that qualified brilliantly in the quarterfinals: São Paulo that, seventh in the first phase, eliminated, in the green house, the favorite Palmeiras by winning by 3 to 1 —4 to 2 on the aggregate score; Ferroviária, who dispatched Inter by adding 4 to 0 (1 to 0 and 3 to 0) in both games and Santos, who played a stunning 7 to 2 against Flamengo (3 to 1 and 4 to 1) —both the Sereias da Vila as the Grená Warriors to confirm their favoritism.

The Corinthian Brabas must make a semifinal with the Sereias and the tricolors will face the Guerreiras, in an authentic quadrangular of São Paulo.

The games will only be played after the World Cup.

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