With Nilton Santos at full strength, Botafogo and Atletico-PR had a hard-fought and intense duel. However, the stadium suffered from ongoing electrical problems and the match was interrupted six times. After definitively suspending the match, the CBF competition director, Júlio Avelar, told the SporTV channel that the second half will be played this Sunday, at 3pm (Brasilia time), behind closed doors.
Therefore, the entity will postpone Glorioso’s clash with Fortaleza, scheduled for next Tuesday, in Castelão. This is because playing this Sunday’s match would violate CBF regulations, which require a 66-hour gap between matches.
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After waiting an hour, referee Matheus Delgado decided to follow CBF regulations and permanently suspended the match.
“Now we have information from the engineer in charge of the stadium. We are not 100% certain that the lights will come back on. So we were unable to return for those thirty minutes. The match, therefore, is definitely over. The CBF will contact both players club to give information on the continuation of the match,” the referee told the players, before Marçal added:
“Bad feeling after the postponement. Thinking about how they will decide to be able to restart the match. I experienced it in Portugal, but it was because of the fog and not the light,” said the Juventus player. left back.
In this sense, the entire internal part of the stadium was left without light, such as corridors, stages and bathrooms. Additionally, lighting problems affected the VAR video booth, which stopped working for much of the first half. In the two goals scored in the initial phase, VAR did not work correctly. The match was finally stopped in the first minutes of the second half.
In the first half, Tiquinho Soares opened the scoring with a header, after taking advantage of a corner kick from Marçal, from the left. This is the 16th goal for the Juventus number 9, top scorer in the championship, with 4 goals more than Marcos Leonardo, of Santos. However, Cuello leaves the Juventus left-back behind him and crosses low for Pablo to leave everything level.
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