The final of the Copa Libertadores already has a venue, schedule and rivals. On Monday, Independent Santa Fe had left the last champions out of the tournament in the penalty area, after drawing 1 to 1 in 90 minutes with Ferroviária. Today, the Brazilians beat the Uruguayans of Nacional with absolute forcefulness by 8 to 0, under the rain of Asunción and achieved what we sensed from the group stage: they will be finalists in the Gran Parque Central on November 21 at 8:00 p.m..
Timão leaves no doubt about their high level, their mastery of the ball, their flow of play, their capacity for collective construction, the great display of their individualities. They arrive in Montevideo as favorites. They have not lost or drawn any match in the tournament. They have all won them firmly. And this semifinal match was no exception. On the contrary, it meant the biggest win of the Brazilians in the contest.
However, the first half was a game, and the second 45 minutes, a very different one. Because although Corinthians opened the scoring too quickly, at 11 minutes Giovanna Campiolo put it 1 to 0, at that moment Nacional was able to contain the advance of the Brazilians who, through rain, could not connect the passes well in attack. So they left at halftime, with a difference by the minimum, a difference that the Uruguayans could well overcome. But four minutes into the second half, Diany scored a great goal, put the score at 2-0 and Nacional began to lose himself on the court, some of his players came out with pain and the match was all for Corinthians. At 54 minutes, I mark Vic Albuquerque; at 61, Gabi Portilho; at 64, Jheniffer; Adriana, at 71 minutes, exchanged a penalty for a goal; Juliete converted at 83 and Grazi, at 88 minutes.
After the sixth goal of the Brazilian team, scored by Adriana, the Corinthians players pointed out that a Nacional footballer said: “macaca” to the number 16 who had just scored the goal to give an even more bulky result to the match.
The expression “macaco” was already used against the player Dani Alves, when in 2014 he played with Barcelona against Villareal. When the player went to make a side, a fan of the rival team threw a banana at him from the stands. Alves, in a gesture of confrontation with this racist attitude, ate the banana. The next day, many players and former players like him Kun Agüero, Marta Vieira Da Silva, Roberto Carlos photos were taken eating bananas and Neymar He himself wrote on his networks: “We are all macaques.”
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