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Renato Portaluppi was satisfied with Grêmio’s victory over Botafogo. Today (8), the Rio Grande do Sul team played 5-2 away from home, in a match on the 35th round of the Brazilian Championship, and ended a series of seven games without winning. For the coach, as important as the score was the attitude of the team, which had been suffering draws in the second half.
Against Coritiba and Santos, in the last two games, the victories escaped in the final stretch of the duels. Against Botafogo, Grêmio scored two goals. But he scored three.
“We played well, we did not lower our guard and we tried to settle the game. We managed to score five goals and, of course, when we attacked, we left spaces. We conceded two goals, but the important thing was the intensity of the team during the 90 minutes. The victory was important”, Renato said after the match at the Nilton Santos stadium.
In the interval, Grêmio won 2-0 without an exuberant performance. The disconnected start gave way to a team that managed to engage Botafogo with few touches in the attack. The chances were accumulating and the possession of the home team was harmless.
And it is not with winning a 5-2 game that I will be content thinking that everything is fine. There are things that we have to improve, train even more so as not to make certain kinds of mistakes. Without disparaging the Botafogo team, people have been napping and we cannot repeat [isso]. He was satisfied, in part, by the creations and the goals. But it’s good that some things also happen to us so as not to repeat in other games, “he said.
Grêmio reached 56 points in the Brazilian Championship. The team returns to the field on Sunday, in Porto Alegre, against São Paulo. Until the final of the Brazilian Cup, with Palmeiras, the club also faces Athletico-PR and Red Bull Bragantino.
