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The draw in the Brazil Cup quarter-finals defined Palmeiras as Ceará’s rival in the knockout. And there was no better luck after five knockout rounds: all participants showed quality and should be judged difficult. The script of alvinegro, however, has an old chapter in front of alviverde, in a context also present in the 1994 campaign.
Before, it is worth mentioning: the stage takes place in two games, the first match at Allianz Parque, in São Paulo, and the second at Arena Castelão. The dates set by CBF in the calendar are next Wednesday, the 11th at 4:30 p.m. and November 18 at 7:00 p.m. The other duels are between Flamengo x São Paulo, Cuiabá x Grêmio and Internacional x América-MG.
Palmeiras is treated as a favorite at the event. With more investment, 10 titles from Serie A and a new coach, the Portuguese Abel Ferreira. Sometimes the team is also considered the best team on the national scene alongside Flamengo.
Everything comes into play, indeed, but mystique and hindsight carry weight. Vovô has tradition in competition even with a runner-up in the curriculum for 26 years against Grêmio. The feat left the rival of São Paulo today.
At that time, the Ceará team eliminated the so-called best club in the country in the late 1990s. Palmeiras, in the Parmalat era, had a squad of stars, they were two-time champions of São Paulo and Brazil, in addition to the command of Vanderlei Luxembourg. And everything stopped in front of Ceará de Dimas Filgueiras.
The duel was valid for the eighths. After drawing without goals at the Castelão Arena, a new equality, 1 to 1, in the old Palestra Itália, propelled the team from Ceará to the best local trajectory in the Copa do Brasil.
The coincidences with the 1994 campaign are also in the projections of alvinegras for the course of the knockout. For the change, the team occupies a group with Internacional x América-MG, that is, in case of qualification, it faces one of the teams.
In the year remembered, after beating Palmeiras, Vovô only had the gauchos ahead, now in the quarterfinals. The powerful Colorado team, with an attack from Paulinho McLaren and Mazinho Loyola, even won 2 to 1 in Beira-Rio, but a 1-0 setback in the first round qualified Ceará by the global scoring regulations.
In the clash of parallels, the other clashes were with Campinense, Linhares-ES and, finally, Grêmio. And the only possibility of facing the celestial team again in the competition is if both reach the decision, in a confrontation divided by the keys.
It won’t be easy, but the dream must exist for the white nation, even with all the party’s difficulty.
Ceará revives 1994 and once again faces a strong Palmeiras on the way to the Copa do Brasil. That year, the grandfather eliminated Verdão. In 94, Alvinegro only stopped in Grêmio and got the runner-up.
Consult the table of the quarterfinals of the Copa do Brasil:
One way games
11/11, Wednesday
16h30 – Palmeiras x Ceará – Allianz Parque, São Paulo (SP)
7pm – Cuiabá x Grêmio – Arena Pantanal, Cuiabá (MT)
9:30 pm – Flamengo vs São Paulo – Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro (RJ)
9:30 pm – International x América-MG – Beira Rio, Porto Alegre (RS)
Back games
11/18, Wednesday
4:30 pm – Grêmio x Cuiabá – Arena do Grêmio, Porto Alegre (RS)
7pm – Ceará x Palmeiras – Castelão, Fortaleza (CE)
9:30 pm – São Paulo x Flamengo – Morumbi, São Paulo (SP)
9:30 pm – America-MG x International – Independência, Belo Horizonte (MG)
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