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At home, Coritiba loses one more and gets complicated in the ZR. (Press Release / Coritiba)Coritiba lost on Saturday night (19) to Botafogo turning inside Couto Pereira. With goals from Pedro Raúl, the Rio team won 2-1 and climbed the table taking Coxa’s position. With 21 points, Verdão fell to 19th place and Fogão reached 18th place with 23 points. If Goiás beats Corinthians on Monday (21), Alviverde may fall to last position.
Coritiba’s next rival is Atlético Mineiro, vice-leader of Serie A, who is looking for first place, on Saturday (26), at 5:00 p.m., at Mineirão de Belo Horizonte, in a match valid for the 27th matchday of the competition.
The game
With the 11 considered ideal by Pachequinho, Coritiba started differently, and shortly after the opening whistle two attacks by Verdão brought danger, but Neilton lacked much attention. The pressure continued Alviverde and at 6 minutes Rafinha helped to pull the counterattack, Giovanni arrived in the center from the right, but he only managed to head the ball, ended up deflected and went to the baseline.
Playing with low lines of defense, Coritiba and Botafogo had the same game proposal, to use the counterattack. So the game got off to a quick start and give and take, but difficulty was the finishing touch. At 18 minutes, Pedro Raúl loaded the mark, invaded the area and hit point blank range from Wilson, who defended in two halves and saved what would be Botafogo’s goal.
In Coritiba’s first corner, in the catch by Giovanni Augusto, Rhodolfo headed in and the ball went close to the goal, but went wide. And the goal was maturing with Neílton, who stole the ball, started the counterattack and passed it to Giovanni, at the table, the shirt 10 received again and Cavalieri saved the first shot, but on the rebound the attacker did not forgive and opened the scoreboard in Couto Pereira.
In the second half, Pachequinho removed the yellowish Matheus Galdezani and placed Hugo Moura in position. In the attack, the duo Giovanni Augusto came back and stood firm, after 4 minutes, the 90 shirt shot from the left to the middle and the attacker came hitting, but sent it out. With a little more offense, Botafogo began to jeopardize Wilson’s goal, which promoted great defenses.
In the construction of the play on the right, the ball reached Cicero, the player sent and Pedro Raúl deflected and tied the game 30 minutes into the second half. Botafogo’s pressure only increased, coming in from the right, Rhuan ended up kicking the ground and missed a goal. In the corner at 34, Lecaros sent the ball to the center of the area, when Matheus Sales arrived playing and the ball took the player’s hand. On the penalty spot, Pedro Raúl beat goalkeeper Wilson, who hit the right corner, but was unable to defend.
After the return, the pressure became a defensive force and Botafogo tried to preserve the score. With several substitutions from Pachequinho, Coritiba lost the offense and the defense line stopped working as in the first stage. In the golden opportunity, in the 45th minute of the second half, a penalty scored for Coxa and Sabino missed the penalty.
DATA SHEET
CORITIBA 1X2 BOTAFOGO
Data: Saturday, December 19, 2020
Local: Couto Pereira, in Curitiba (PR)
Calendar: 9pm.
Referee: Luiz Flávio de Oliveira (SP)
Assistants: Neuza Ines Back (SP) and Miguel Cataneo Ribeiro de Souza (SP)
Video referee: Rodrigo Guarizo Ferreira do Amaral (SP)
Video assistants: Vinicius Furlan (SP) and Vitor Carmona Metestaine (SP)
Coritiba: Wilson; Jonathan (Maílton), Rhodolfo, Sabino and William Matheus; Matheus Sales, Matheus Galdezani (Hugo Moura) and Giovanni Augusto (Mattheus Oliveira); Rafinha, Pablo Thomaz (Robson) and Neilton (Yan Sasse).
Technical: Pachequinho
Botafogo: Diego Cavalieri; Kevin, Marcelo Benevenuto, Kanu and Rafael Forster; Zé Welison (Babi), Caio Alexandre, Honda (Cícero) and Warley (Lecaros); Kalou and Pedro Raul.
Technical: Eduardo Barroca
Yellow card: Matheus Galdezani, Matheus Sales and Maílton (CFC); Marcelo Benevenuto (BOT)
Goal: Neilton (CFC); Pedro Raúl (2x) (BOT)
