Just to complete the schedule

By: Lucas | April 7th, 2008

The match against Barueri was boring for my side, of course, Barueri still had a chance to qualify but it needed for other results like defeats of Ponte Preta and Corinthians. Corinthians lost (is not a surprise) to Noroeste at Bauru but Ponte Preta got a draw at Santos.

We got 10th straight wins currently Verdão has the biggest invincibility in Brazil already are 14 undefeated games.

Even Barueri started better in the match still dreaming to be in the semi-finals. They kept possession ball in a 1st half. Palmeiras had few good moments.

At 8′ after a free-kick Léo Lima crossed the ball Henrique touched it and Diego Souza headed it requiring a great René’s save.

At 14′ Denílson made a good shot right over the crossbar.

At 21′ Márcio Careca (former Palmeiras’ player) shot and Marcos put it to corner-kick.

At 42′ after Denílson has made a nice play he crossed right in Diego Souza’s head but René didn’t allow the goal.

2nd Half Palmeiras woke up with Luxemburgo’s orientation

At 48′ Martinez crossed and Jorge Preá headed in left-hand of goal but René inspired by Gordon Banks didn’t let the ball in. But in corner-kick Diego Souza back-heeled the ball to Léo Lima who shot in right-hand of the goal.

But the match was damaged by the weak referee Guilherme de Lima. He marked 2 penalties one for each side, the 1st one at 49′ Fernando dived into the area and besides penalty-kick he gave a yellow card to Léo Lima but São Marcos saved the penalty-kick. The 2nd one Diego disputed the ball with Alex Mineiro, no foul, but to compensate the “referee” gave us a penalty-kick, himself scored it.

At 90′ in a dead-ball situation Élder Granja crossed and Diego Souza headed indefensibly scoring 3rd goal.

HIGHLIGHTS

GR BARUERI 0 vs. 3 SE PALMEIRAS
Barueri
Renê;
M Pimentel, Duílio, Diego n’ M Careca;
M Carrasco, R Ponte, Flávio (Guaru) n’ J César(R Santos);
T Humberto n’ A Balada (Fernando)
Coach: M Araújo

Palmeiras
Marcos;
E Granja, Gustavo, Henrique n’ Leandro;
Martinez, L Lima (Wendel), D Souza n’ Denílson (Lenny)
A Mineiro n’ J Preá (Makelele)
Coach: V. Luxemburgo

Venue: Barueri Arena
Referee: Guilherme de Lima
Attendance: unrevealed