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Where was the team that played against Botafogo, Fortaleza and entered the field in the final 20 minutes against Atlético? Did not travel to Chile.

Incredible, the blackout; unbelievable, the goals missed in the first half; shameful, the suffocation taken at the end.

Fernando Seabra has to learn how to change tires while the car is moving. He’s done hiding in the absence of time for training. Don’t wait for the game to almost end to remove pieces that clearly don’t work. Goal opportunities are rare and cannot be dispersed by “explicit foul play”.

Fernando, don’t make up any more about the defense. Look at the base aiming for the attack where we strictly have no one. Grêmio, playing with 10, against Estudiantes, in Argentina, won 1 x 0, with the goal scored in exchange for passes from two young people aged 18 and 19 who had just entered.

Ronaldo, don’t mistreat the fans so much. Look at the market and quickly bring us a center forward with a goal. The ball is in your court. And only with you.

We are full of those attackers who “almost” score. We can give and sell.

Now the burning question: in this truckload of advisors, including former stars, is there no one who can teach you how to take corners and free kicks?

Sunday, at 4pm, at Mineirão, we will see which team will take the field to face Vitória, in the fourth round of the Brazilian Championship. Those who are careless, losing goals due to “excessive badness”, or players willing and able to honor the “heroic, immortal pages”?

CHAT IN THE BACKYARD

1. Atlético 3 x 2 Peñarol – If it weren’t for the help of the goalposts and a Uruguayan “Jemerson”, the fans would have booed again. The team has massive blackouts. The difference is that he scores goals when he is awake.

2. Seriously! He returns to intern at this terreiro, willing to go to Porta dos Fundos. Get creative by playing with our acronyms Play 4: MRV (Meu Rival Vacilão…. Meu Rival Varrido…) and so on, tap dancing in that strange game on Saturday, when only one team played until the final 20 minutes. Celebrates the “inauguration”, finally, of the Maltratar Raposa Vaidosa stadium.

It was an atypical game. Cruzeiro hadn’t been playing that badly, and Atlético wasn’t that brastemp. The next matches between them, as happened on Tuesday, will clarify things more. Let’s wait.

Just a technical correction to the text of Speaks seriously: when comparing the audience and income of our classic with Palmeiras x Flamengo, they forgot to mention that Allianz Parque had reduced capacity due to the stage and equipment for a show.

Our observation remains valid: it is less difficult to defend the square of the circle than the Arena MRV.

3. Roberto Cardoso de Sousa throws a bait: Speaks seriously is a codename Fred Melo Paiva…

It is not. Similar styles, excellent, but different people. Speaks seriously He is a longtime visitor to this large estate, with memorable gatherings, using his baptismal name.

4. If life gave you a lemon… If life has given you blind spots in your stadium, make a joke. And the athletes had a good one:

“CREA confirms blind spot during the game against Cruzeiro “which did not see the ball”.

5. Hold your tongue please – It’s heartbreaking to hear a certain sports chronicle deifying Atlético after the victory over Cruzeiro. Suddenly, Scarpa, who was a bench player, became the best Brazilian player active in the country; the scheme adopted by Milito is “genius”, the team is a “death machine”, it plays to music…

Less, guys. A week earlier this same team was booed, after a draw with Criciúma.

Against Peñarol it was the same thing. In the first half, the narrator and commentators had to restrain themselves from defending Atlético’s immediate entry into the Premier League. In the second, with the most blatant poker face in the world, they began to point out defects while the suffocation imposed by the Argentines and the explicit wax of the Atleticos grew, facilitated by the addition of just 5 minutes, almost the time that the game was stopped due to the confusion in the bleachers, stopped with pepper spray.

6. Bernard of Assisi, surprisingly, denies the existence of blind spots in the MRV Arena. For him, the stadium has no structural problems and works perfectly to the joy of Atletico fans and the envy of Cruzeiro fans.

My dear Bernard, do not try to deny incontrovertible facts. Popular wisdom already warns: The worst blind person is the one who doesn’t want to see.

Leonardo Take advantage of the opportunity and re-heat a good joke launched in a testimony by John of God:

There are indeed blind spots. He sat in several places and from none of them could he see the Cruzeiro stadium…

7. Augustus, as a faithful squire, continues his solo campaign of trying to dehydrate our past (read: Half a Century of Hegemony). Particularly, he cannot stand the success of Sada-Cruzeiro (one of the three best volleyball teams in the world). This season, for a very rare exception, out of contention for the national title.

With imagination, Augusto lists fictitious tournaments that were being played by Cruzeiro, highlighting “Truco, Boliche e Bodoques com Mamonas…”

Over the weekend, it got really bad: In the Brazilian women’s football championship, the girls from Cruzeiro defeated Atleticanas 4 x 0…

Augustus, this is real. And now Jose?

8. Wilson de Oliveira Garcia corrects the blogger:

“Firstly, the Arena doesn’t have a fence, that’s something for a poor team’s stadium, which isn’t the case with Atlético…”

With reason, Wilson. The MRV Arena does not have fences. There is the sinister quartet of points: blind, deaf, mute and dark.

9. José Antônio also corrects the blogger: Union La Calera only played in one Libertadores and, of the great Brazilians, they only played against Flamengo.

Now the blogger corrects José Antonio: Union has also competed in the Copa Sul Americana, in 2022, facing Santos, being defeated 1 x 0.

Speaking of opponents’ record, what is Criciúma’s?

10. VAR – I am being criticized for Hallisson Souza It is Brunoamong others, because I complained about the non-action of the VAR in two controversial moves in my opinion, in the game against Atlético. In less serious plays, Cruzeiro has already been punished with penalties a few times. I’m not saying there was a mistake. I think the bids required explicit review, to confirm one meaning or another.

11. End of the world – O Financial Times announced that two companies are preparing to launch thinking machines. They are able to reflect, plan actions and have memory. These are essential activities that will match or exceed human capacity. Will they have a club passion?

I hope that an IAIAIA will soon emerge against AI as an antidote for good, reestablishing common sense, the natural.

12. Romulo, like a dick in the trash, lays and rolls over Atlético’s title won with a 3 x 0 victory over Cruzeiro, at Mineirão. We would do the same, as we have done so many times. With style and creativity, it went well until almost the end. On the last line, slide on the mayonnaise. It ends with Ronaldo and states:

“He got the club for free, as the 400 million will be generated by the club itself. It was a Chinese deal for Ronaldo.”

My dear Romulo, popular wisdom recommends that those with a glass roof never throw stones on their neighbor’s roof. Still in Belo Horizonte, and with another club, a group of “fans in love” did even better business…

13. Rafa is coming – The last column of the month, Monday, 29th, will bring a different look at Cruzeiro. The young reviewer-editor Rafael de Novaes Rocha, who is not to blame for being my grandson (despite the accumulation of mutual frustrations) will tell you how he sees Cruzeiro’s never-ending struggle to find its way back.

GARIMPO

“One less illusion is one more truth.”

(Alexandre Dumas Filho)