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At another time of changes in the structure of Palmeiras football, Andrey Lopes takes over the team. The assistant will be the acting coach of Verdão on Sunday, against Fortaleza, at 20:30, in Castelão, for the Brazilian Championship.
Last year he was chosen to lead the team after the resignations of Mano Menezes and Alexandre Mattos. The response was positive: 100% success after victories against Goiás (5 to 1) and Cruzeiro (2 to 0), performance that kept the Palmeirenses in third place in the national tournament.
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Andrey Lopes, assistant who will take charge of Palmeiras – Photo: Cesar Greco / Ag. Palmeiras
At that time, the interim promoted changes in the team. Without Felipe Melo, Willian (suspended) and Luiz Adriano, Andrey prepared Verdão for the game against the Goiás team with a more technical midfield. Bruno Henrique played alongside Matheus Fernandes, with Zé Rafael, Lucas Lima and Raphael Veiga in front, and Dudu isolated in attack.
It was in the match played in Brinco de Ouro, in Campinas, where Gabriel Verón had his first leading role as a professional. The striker, then 17, started on the bench but finished the game with two goals and one assist.
Against Cruzeiro, in the match that demoted the Minas Gerais team to Serie B, Verdão kept the banner (remember the games in the videos below).
Best moments of Palmeiras 5 x 1 Goiás for the 37th round of the Brazilian Championship
Best moments: Cruzeiro 0 x 2 Palmeiras for the 38th day of the Brasileirão
Vanderlei Luxembourg’s departure may open up the opportunity for further testing in the team and thus trying to pack a regular sequence into the breeding system. There is an internal understanding that athletes can and should show more than they have presented.
At Palmeiras since December 2017, Andrey Lopes has worked for Inter and Grêmio and also for the Brazilian team. In Verdão, he was an assistant to the club in the footsteps of Roger Machado, Felipão, Mano Menezes and Vanderlei Luxemburg.
And so it will continue with the future coach, the Spanish Miguel Ángel Ramírez is the priority of the board at this time.
