Cruzmaltino has a fatal second half and leaves the ghost of relegation ever further away
This Wednesday (10), the Vasco da Gama received, in Saint JanuariusO Corinthians for the 16th round of the Brazilian Championship 2024. On a historic night, Gigante da Colina played a great match and broke a 14-year winless streak against Timão.
In the first half, we saw intense and fluid football, but with few clear chances on goal. Whenever Cruzmaltino got on the attack, the wrong decisions in the last action ended the plays.
On the Corinthians side, the only chance they had Leo Jardim working was when Igor Coronado He hit a long free kick into the goalkeeper’s corner, who had to make a good save.
At the end of the stage, Vasco applied more intense pressure and created good plays with Adson It is Pablo Veggeti. But, despite the good football, the score remained at zero.
In the second half, the home team took control of the match and opened the scoring after just 10 minutes, after Lucas Python receive great release from Hugo Mourainfiltrate the area from the left side and shoot with your left foot into the corner of Matheus Donelli.
Vasco’s players slowed down, but Timão couldn’t manage to make enough incisive moves to get the equalizer. Meanwhile, Vasco also had chances to kill the game. It was only in injury time that the newly introduced Sforza took advantage of a long free kick to unleash a bomb into the Corinthians corner and close the coffin. Check out some facts about the match:
- Ball possession: Vasco da Gama 50.1% x 49.9% Corinthians
- Finalizations (accurate): Vasco 14 (3); Corinthians 10 (2)
- Fouls committed: Vasco 15 x 10 Corinthians
- Successful passes (%): Vasco 301 (90.1%); Corinthians 319 (89.7%)
Vasco has won all of its last nine points and is moving away from the danger zone with 20 points. Corinthians, on the other hand, continues to be in the Z-4 and hopes that the new coach Ramon Diaz manage to reverse the situation.
In the next round, Vasco will go to Goiania to visit the Atletico-GOwhile Corinthians prepares to receive the Criciuma.
Source: sportbuzz
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