Botafogo, under Portuguese coach Luís Castro, received and won with an impressive 3-0 against Santos and took advantage of the previous day’s loss to America Mineiro (1-2) on a trip to the already Brazilian champion Palmeiras, Abel Ferreira, to move up to 8- E place in the classification, the first access to the qualifying rounds of the Copa Libertadores.
In the game of the 37th and penultimate round of Serie A, Lucas Fernandes, the former Portimonense midfielder who scored on his debut, with bis high level, scoring great goals, by 10 ‘(bomb from outside the penalty area) and 53′, while Tiquinho Soares, former Porto scorer, in his famous style aircraftclosed the score in the 70th minute.
At the end of this round glorious has 53 points, one more than America Mineiro (dropped to 9th, with 52 points), so on the next, last and decisive game day, in order to keep 8th place, she will need to match the result coelhowith a scheduled admission to the practically doomed Atlético Goianiense: 17th has drawn at home with Atletico Paranaense and is three points behind Cuiaba from Antonio Oliveira, who is, however, very comfortable because, despite the recorded defeat , this morning with 0-3 away to Atlético Mineiro has a positive advantage of six goals in a direct tie-break (the confrontation of these two teams fixes two equalities, both one ball each).
It should be noted that this was the second consecutive victory (and without conceded goals) for Luis Castro’s men in a match also marked by a return to triumphs in front of the audience, at the Nilton Santos Olympic Stadium, popularly known as ingenuitylosing to Cuiaba in the 35th round.
In the last matchday, Botafogo will face Luis Felipe Scolari’s Atlético Parananense away and may dream of a direct qualification to the Copa Libertadores group stage. theft 6th place to the next opponent by two points.
For this Bake should win, but it’s not only up to you and you also have to wait for Atlético Mineiro (7th, 55 points) to lose in the Arena Corinthians against Helmetled by Vítor Pereira, a team undefeated for four consecutive matches in Brasileirão and which, in front of the public in 18 league matches, won 12, drew four and suffered only two defeats.
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What’s the joke, Lucas?????? The goal that opened the scoring for Stove at Nilton Santos!
