At home, Fluminense had two goals from Cano to overcome Fortaleza and win again in the Brasileirão after two games; Leão had goals disallowed and Tricolor returned to the G-4
O Fluminense won the Strength 2-1 on Saturday night, 10th, at Maracanã, for the 26th round of the Brazilian Championship. German Canotwice, was the hero of the Tricolor carioca, which triumphed again in the competition after two games. Thiago Galhardo even left the match tied for the Lion.
With the result, Fernando Diniz’s team reached 45 points, returned to the G-4 and took the provisional third place on the leaderboard. The team can still be overtaken by Flamengo and Corinthians, who play in the sequence of the round. Leão do Pici, on the other hand, suffered its second defeat in a row, after an overwhelming start to the comeback, and stopped at 30 points, in 13th position.
The teams return to the field for the 27th round of the Brazilian Championship next weekend. On Sunday, 18th, at 4pm (GMT), Fluminense will face Flamengo in the classic at Maracanã. Later, at 18:00, Fortaleza goes to the Alfredo Jaconi stadium to face the Youth.
Before, Flu will face the decisive confrontation against Corinthians, at Neo Química Arena, on Wednesday, 15, from 8 pm (Brasilia time), for the return game of the semifinal of the Copa do Brasil. The first leg, at Maracanã, was tied 2-2 and now the teams play for any win. A new tie takes the decision to penalties.
The game
The Carioca Tricolor needed ten minutes of play to open the scoring at Maracanã. Cano, with a great goal, put the home team in front of the scorer after a great pass from Ganso: 1 to 0. Leão do Pici managed to score in the first half, with José Welison, but the bid was canceled by Galhardo’s lack of Nino in the play.
Like Flu, Fortaleza scored at the beginning of the stage to equalize the score. At five minutes into the second half, Galhardo received the cross in the measure of Juninho Capixaba to head and tie: 1 to 1. Tricolor returned to the lead five minutes later, with another goal from Germán Cano. Caio Paulista took advantage of the leftover corner and hit the beam; the top scorer got the new leftover and didn’t waste it: 2 to 1.
In a good and busy game at Maracanã, Leão managed to reach the nets for the third time, but had the second goal disallowed. Robson received from Caio Alexandre and turned his head to Galhardo, who completed. The VAR evaluated the millimetric bid and pointed out the attacker’s offside. In the final minutes, Leão took more danger to Flu in moves invested by Capixaba, but without success.
Source: sportbuzz
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