Flamengo 1-2 Palmeiras – with the usual suspects crashing the party

What a glorious sight, the Mané Garrincha stadium in Brasília yesterday. Long but mostly orderly cues outside, friendly and relaxed … More

Results are important, coherence is key

After suffering three defeats in a row (Atlético Paranaense, Cruzeiro and Coritiba), Palmeiras last Sunday beat Flamengo 4-2 halfway through … More

Atlético Mineiro and Sport at home, SPFC and Coritiba away: these were our last four games, all of them 2-0 … More

Dorival Júnior promoted five changes to the starting eleven we saw last week against Fluminense: Deola substituted Fábio between the … More

. Taking off from James Young’s article featured in a recent post, I will contextualize the immediacy of Brazilian football directors … More

. Of course you remember last Sunday’s game against Fluminense. You remember the script. Guess what: the same guy must … More

Unable to watch the game in its integrity, my comments will be limited to a few, short observations: Valdivia, again, … More

Considering the pessimistic, i.e. realistic outlook for yesterday’s game against Flamengo, the draw was a good result (even though Palmeiras … More