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After the defeat to Vasco for the Brazilian Championship, last Sunday (6), Renato Portaluppi made a well-known statement from the crowd: “Grêmio plays the best soccer in Brazil.” There are already 16 invincibility matches for the gaucho Tricolor, who is alive in three different championships. But, despite the good stage, for the commentator of the ESPN / Fox Sports channels, Fábio Sormani, the sequence is not as exciting as it seems and Grêmio has the obligation to win games like the one in the next phase of the Libertadores.
“If you take Grêmio’s streak without losing, there is no game against an expressive team. There was Fluminense, which was a great game. The others, for the Brazil Cup, against Juventude, Cuiabá … [no Brasileiro] Basque, Ceará. Against Corinthians, with two more, he did not go from 0 to 0. He had difficulties against Juventude and Cuiabá for the Brazil Cup. Guarani won [pela Libertadores], but then he only made 2 to 1 against Goiás, the worst team of the Brazilian, he returned to 2 to 0 in Guaraní and there he plays this great game against Vasco. Grêmio is not playing this exuberant football, ”said the commentator.
Some of the other opponents in Grêmio’s unbeaten streak were: Botafogo, Atlético, Bragantino, coming out with victory and São Paulo and América de Cali, with a draw. And even with Portaluppi praising the team, its takeoff and, even affirming its focus on the Brazilian, for Sormani the phase is a consequence of the investment and Grêmio has the obligation to go further. For Libertadores, Tricolor faces Santos in the quarterfinals.
“It’s a joke that Renato does a miracle with this team, that the squad is not that. He lies, the squad is very good. Grêmio spent 50 million this season on reinforcements. Santos is prohibited from hiring. Grêmio is obliged” to qualify for the Libertadores, for the investment they made ”, he declared.
The next commitments for Renato’s team, on the three fronts he disputes, are: Santos, for the Libertadores, on December 9, in Porto Alegre, Goiás, on December 14, away from home for the Brazilian and in the Copa do Brazil, for one game. place in the final, against São Paulo, in the Arena, on 12/23.
