Archive for October 17th, 2009

We have some huge match ups this weekend in Campeonato Brasil. On Saturday second place Sao Paulo has a huge fight on their hands with Atletico-MG. Both clubs will duke it out with Palmeiras for the Campeonato Brasil.

Two points separate fourth place Galo and second place Tricolor. Seven points separate the top four clubs Palmeiras, Sao Paulo, Internacional, and Atletico-MG.

A tie will do neither Sao Paulo nor Atletico-MG any good. I hate to say this Palmeiras has a good shot at beating my team Flamengo on Sunday. Mengao plays like crap on the road.

Tricolor should have the advantage over Galo. The match takes place in Sao Paulo’s house Morumbi. The last time Galo and Tricolor met was July 16 and Atletico-MG whitewashed em 2-0 in Galo’s house Mineiro.

Sao Paulo’s problems lie with the fact that Tricolor can’t score. They have scored forty goals in twenty-nine games. This is down right an abomination. Last year at this time, the evil empire had forty-seven goals.

This year’s goal total of forty is the worst in the past six years.

You cannot win matches without putting the ball into the back of the net.

Tricolor’s “D” is pretty good. Sao Paulo has only given up thirty goals in 29 games. This is not too shabby. But upon further review, many of these goals were soft. This means the Sao Paulo’s keepers Rogerio Ceni and Fabiano have given up easy goals. Easy goals are defined as either from a lapse on the defensive end or ball that comes rebounding out off the keeper and this results in an easy goal or the keeper lets in a goal that should have no chance in hell to score.

I would guess that of the thirty goals given up ten of these were of this variety. These goals will kill a team. This happened in the evil empires loss to my Flamengo last weekend.  Mengao had well over seventy percent of the touches. When this happens you lose.

This begs the question. Who is to blame for this? The coach. The blame rests squarely on Gomes’s shoulders. This has to do with a teams match preparation. If the preparation is bad, the team will perform like crap.

Sao Paulo can’t afford to have any more brain farts from this point on. There are only nine games left in the season.

This is what I call getting down to nut cutting time.

From this point on all these suckers count so you better, come away with the maximum amount of points. This translated into wins baby. 

This goes for my guys at Mengao. Flamengo can’t afford to get blown out by Verdao in Palmeiras’s house.

We need to win baby.

Rubro-Negro needs to leave it all on the pitch, The Emperor and his buddies need to come firing on all cylinders. 

It’s goals baby and lots of “D”.

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