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In the dream of the title, the Rio Grande do Sul club needs to beat Corinthians and support Flamengo in order not to beat São Paulo in the last round.
Hope and disappointment, antagonistic feelings: while the first represents a certain optimism, the second is resignation to an unhappy fate. And in the midst of Botafogo’s 1-0 victory over São Paulo, for the penultimate round of Brasileirão 2020 (a goal by Matheus Babi and a penalty by Luciano stopped by Diego Loureiro), the Internacional fan oscillated between one and the other.
That’s because the Colorados, who lost the game and lead the championship to Flamengo, know they need to hold on to every millimeter of hope in their dream of winning the Brasileirão. The title could have come on Sunday (21), in a match marked by the controversy of Rodinei’s expulsion, but instead he got much closer to Rubro-Negro, who faces São Paulo in the last round. A victory guarantees the title to the Flamenguistas, while Inter need to beat Corinthians and wait for a stumble from Fla.
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The good news for Internacional is that São Paulo still has something to fight against Flamengo. The Tricolor could have confirmed their place in the Libertadores group stage if Botafogo won, but they played very badly – with one less man, after Reinaldo was sent off – and left the field defeated by Alvinegro, last classified and already relegated to Serie. B Morumbi’s club comes to face Rubro-Negro under pressure from the entire script of their campaign: they were already leaders with seven points ahead of the second classified, but now not even the fourth position is guaranteed – they are only two points away ahead of Fluminense.
(Photo: Vitor Silva / Botafogo)
The bad news is that São Paulo played a terrible game and was dominated by what, many say, is the worst Botafogo in history, an already relegated team that has no more to fight for this season. If you haven’t even beaten the team with the most losses of the tournament (20, like Coritiba), what to expect from São Paulo against a star-studded Flamengo, who has been playing the best football in Brazil?
Imagine that you are a millionaire who thought about offering cash prizes to the Tricolor players, to serve as an extra stimulus in the duel against Flamengo, as he indicated he would do (before he regretted it, hours later and before the shooting ball to Botafogo x São Paulo), Elusmar Maggi, Inter fan? Would you bet that São Paulo 2021, which fell from the Serie A table, beats Flamengo?
Regardless of the answer, the truth is that the International fans will spend the days leading up to the last lap oscillating between hope and disappointment.
