The alviverde team goes to Guayaquil to face Barcelona eager to avoid suffocation in the first phase of the continental tournament
Palmeiras ended April on a high note, with victory in the derbyand start May with a mission not to complicate your group liberators. This Wednesday 3, at 21:30, there will be a tough challenge against Barcelona from Guayaquilin Ecuador, rival who was his tormentor in the continental tournament in 2017.
Palmeiras, as well as all three other members of Group C – Barcelona, Bolívar and Cerro Porteño – have three points after two games. Therefore, the third round will begin to draw the outcome of the key that has the Alviverde team in the spotlight according to the tie-break criteria.
Abel Ferreira’s team plays against the rival who eliminated him in the Libertadores 2017, tasked with winning in Ecuador to take off in the tournament and not be suffocated. In the last five years, Palmeiras have qualified very easily for the knockout stage, always at the top of their group. In 2022 he advanced with a 100% success rate and as the overall leader of the competition. In this edition, however, the scenario, for the moment, is different, given that he made his debut with a defeat against Bolívar and won the hard comeback feathers of Cerro Porteño in the next match.
“We have to be prepared for everything,” said Raphael Veiga, who celebrated his decisive goal against Corinthians in last Saturday’s derby with “chororô” à la Valdivia. “I’ve already had the opportunity to go to Guayaquil, it’s a long journey and it will be a difficult match.”
After the match against the Ecuadorians, Palmeiras will play three more matches in the group stage against Cerro Porteño on the 25th in Paraguay, Barcelona de Guayaquil on the 7th of June at the Allianz Parque and Bolívar on the 29th of June at the Allianz park.
The team must be the same one that started the derby. There are no new lows, but a comeback. The defender served his ban against Bolívar and Cerro Porteño and should finally make his Libertadores 2023 debut.
Barcelona de Guayaquil, where the 2022 Libertadores final was played, are strong in their domains, having lost just one of their last ten home games in the South American competition. That setback went to Brazilian opponents Flamengo in the semi-finals of the 2021 edition.
BARCELONA X PALMS
BARCELONA: Burrai; Velasco, Rodríguez, Sosa and Pineida; Corozo, Gaibor, Leonai and Ortiz; Diaz and Fydriszewski. Technician: Fabiano Bustos.
PALMS: Weverton; Mayke, Gomez, Murilo and Piquerez; Zé Rafael, Gabriel Menino and Raphael Veiga; Dudu, Ron and Arthur. Technician: Abel Ferreira.
Judge: Andrés Rojas (Colombia).
Time: 21:30 (from Brasilia).
Local: Estadio Monumental Isidro Romero Carbo.
TV: Globe and Paramount+.
Source: Terra
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