Archive for June 21st, 2009

Saturday is one of those tweener days. Campeonato do Brasil is playing but my mind is elsewhere. I am looking forward to flipping back and forth between the Brasil-Italy and USA-Egypt match after my wife and I get back from church.

There were really wild and crazy matches played on Saturday in Brasil. My wife and I watched the Palmeiras battle with Atletico-PR on GOL-TV. Palmeiras fell behind 2-1 late in the match before getting the equalizer in 93^rd minute to pull out a two all draw. It was one of crazy corner kicks. Somehow, the ball turned into a pinball machine and all hell broke loose in front of the Atletico net. Keirrison booted home the equalizer through two Atletico defenders to give Palmeiras a miracle draw.

Atletico-PR thought they had the match won when Marcinho fired a laser free kick that found the back of the next in the 79^th minute to make 2-1. 

www.uol.com.br described the match-tying goal this way: Chances perdidas, gol mal anulado e problemas na defesa. Tudo indicava que o Palmeiras seria derrotado e teria sua crise ampliada com um novo resultado negativo, agora no Campeonato Brasileiro. Porém, um gol de Keirrison aos 48min do segundo tempo mudou a situação do time alviverde neste sábado e assegurou o empate por 2 a 2 com o Atlético-PR na Arena da Baixada.

A translation would go along these lines: Palmeiras had many chances to score but didn’t convert them. Palmeiras last goal saved them from a bad result. This could have had a bad effect for Palmeiras in the championship of Brasil. Palmeiras defense was bad and they gave bad goals to Atletico.

The folks at Atletico thought they were robbed of a victory in the final moments by the ref. Nossa diretoria tem que tomar uma providência. O Atlético é um time grande e não pode ser desrespeitado deste jeito. O árbitro havia dito que era o último escanteio, mas permitiu que eles batessem o segundo e saiu o empate”, lamentou o zagueiro Antônio Carlos, que também reclamou do juiz.

Gremio and Goias tied at two all. Santo Andre defeated Sport 2-1. Vitoria got by Botafogo 4-3. Coritiba defeated Nautico 1-0, and Avai scored a late goal to defeat Fluminense 3-2.

Avai jumped to an early 2-0 lead however Fluminense game roaring back to tie two all before Leo Gago scored in the 93^rd minute on a long rocket that beat the keeper Ricardo Berna  to rescue victory from the jaws of a tie.

That’s it for today. We’ll talk about the two big matches Brasil-Italy and USA-Egypt later today.

Check these sites out.

www.palau.org

http://www2.hillsong.com/tv/home.asp