Despite dominating the match, Fortaleza drew with Cruzeiro and lost the chance to take the provisional leadership of the Brazilian championship
This Wednesday, the 17th, Fortaleza drew 1-1 against Cruzeiro, at the Arena Castelão, in a match valid for the second round of the Brazilian Serie A championship.
Fortaleza started the match a little off. With that, Cruzeiro moved forward and created the main scoring chances early in the match, forcing João Ricardo, a tricolor archer, to perform a miracle right at the start of the match. As time passed, Fortaleza calmed the game and began to keep the ball, especially in midfield, with Zé Welison, Pochettino and Hércules, especially Hércules began to dominate the central area of the pitch and calmed down Leão do Picí, who began to arrive dangerously the goal defended by Anderson, Cruzeiro goalkeeper. The dangerous attacks generated several corner kicks for the Italian team, in one of these, in the 20th minute of the opening phase, the ball was left at the edge of the area for Hércules to hit hard and open the score for Fortaleza.
Until the 30th minute of the first half, Fortaleza dominated the match and it was at this point of the match that Matheus Pereira began to dominate the match for Cruzeiro, generating more dangerous plays on Fortaleza’s goal, but without effectiveness. End of the first half, Fortaleza 1×0 Cruzeiro.
In the return of the complementary phase, Leão do Picí once again had the advantage and prevailed over the match. Until the 6th minute, after Matheus Pereira’s header, the ball hits Tinga’s arm and the referee is called to VAR. However, in an unusual situation and never seen before by me, it was to show Matheus Pereira’s offside. Having said that, the ball went back to Fortaleza, who continued to have possession, but without creating any dangerous moves, rather giving the impression that at the start of the second half they were waiting for the final whistle of the match.
With the temperature high, the match cooled down and to start looking for an equalizer, Fernando Seabra, coach of Cruzeiro, removed Ramiro and replaced Gabriel Veron, increasing the speed of the Minas Gerais team, especially in Cruzeiro’s offensive moves. In response, Juan Pablo Vojvoda made three changes, he removed Machuca, Zé Welison and Yago Pikachu, to replace Moisés, Pedro Augusto and Marinho. Marinho who scored himself having the opportunity to launch the counterattack against Fortaleza in numerical superiority, but preferred to return to the Fortaleza defense, leaving the Italian fans nervous due to the attacker’s action.
In the 41st minute of the second half, Lucas Romero was sent off after receiving a second yellow card for a foul on Renato Kayser, a striker who, despite not being a starter, returned to play for Fortaleza after returning from loan from Criciúma. However, what could have lightened the atmosphere of the match and created calm for Leão do Picí, caused even more surprise, since in the next move, in the 43rd minute, Mateus Vital equalized the match, after a split ball in the penalty area Fortaleza, left foot for the central, a defender who kicked hard and equalized the match. Fortaleza tried to break the deadlock, but without success, seeing their goalkeeper concede the most dangerous chances late in the game.
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With the draw, Fortaleza loses the chance to gain the provisional leadership of the Brazilian championship and, to date, is in sixth place, with 4 points won in 2 games. Cruzeiro is one position above with the same 4 points.
Source: Terra
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