Abel Ferreira picked it up with Palmeiras! What PAOK earns

EPIC Abel Ferreira! The former PAOK manager managed to make history with Palmeiras, as they defeated Santos 1-0 in the final and won the Copa Libertadores. In fact, this was the first title of his coaching career, while from the enormous success of the Portuguese, Dikefalos will put 750,000 euros in his coffers!

In the match, the first great phase of the game was Palmeiras. Ronnie came in impressively down the left into the Santos’ large area and turned around with the guest goalkeeper to block in a corner at 11΄. The second good moment for Abel Ferreira’s team was marked in the 37th minute, with a cross shot from Veiga coming out.

With the start of the second part and more specifically at 59^the Minute of the match Santos missed a great opportunity to open the scoring. Marinio made the center and Verissimo from an advantageous position managed to miss. Five minutes later, the typical home team scored, but Veiga’s direct free kick went over John’s crossbar.

In the 77th minute, Santos missed a great double chance to get ahead on the scoreboard. Initially, Pituka fired the shot, with the Palmeiras goalkeeper repelled unstable and in the course of the phase, Jonathan’s new shot went wide.

In the 90 ‘, the Palmeira goalkeeper blocked Jorge’s inverted scissors. And while everything showed that the game leads to extra time, Breno with an excellent header after a Ronnie cross sent the ball to the net (99΄) and handed the trophy to Palmeiras.

The compositions:

Palmeiras (Abel Ferreira): Veverton – Marco Rosa, Luan, Gustavo Gomez, Matthias Vinia – Danilo – Gabriel Menino (85 ‘Breno Lopez), Rafael Veiga (90 + 11’ Alan Eberer), Ze Rafael (78 ‘Patrick Carreiro), Roni Felipe Melo) – Luis Adriano.

Santos (Kouka): John Victor – Para (90 + 10 ‘Bruninho), Lucas Verisimo, Luan Perez, Felipe Jonathan (90 + 2’ Wellington) – Allison – Marinho, Diego Pituca, Sandri (73 ‘Lucas Braga), Soteldo – Caio Zorre 2’ Manchón ).