In game where he celebrated his 150th match for the Basque, Nenê scored a penalty goal and helped Cruz-Maltino beat the Portuguese 1-0 in São Januário. With the three points, the Basque club returned to the leadership of the Carioca Championship.
Tomorrow (10), at Nilton Santos (RJ), Botafogo and Fluminense face each other and, if Alvinegro wins, will return to the first place of the competition.
Already on Sunday (13), the Basque it is who sees Botafogo in classic that had the command sold to São Luís, in Maranhão.
Nene 150 games
The experienced half Nenê completed 150 games for Basque today’s match. He was honored with a commemorative plaque before the ball rolled and won a shirt with the allusive number.
On the field, he did not have as inspired as in other matches this season and abused the firulas that did not have objectivity. However, he called the responsibility in a difficult moment of departure, where the Basque he had difficulty sticking the Portuguese mark, and charged the penalty with his usual category to open the scoring for Cruz-Maltino.
History of overcoming Lusa side
Portuguese left-back Sánchez, had a history of overcoming. Revealed in Ceará, he was unemployed for more than 15 months before hitting with Lusa. In the carioca team, he has been a starter and has already scored a goal over Flamengo in the first round.
The arrival of Vasco
TECHNICAL DATA SHEET:
VASCO 1 x 0 Portuguese
Local: São Januário, in Rio de Janeiro (RJ)
Date: February 09, 2022 (Wednesday)
Hour: 21h35 (from Brasilia)
Competition: 5th round of the Carioca championship
Arbitrator: Alex Gomes Stefano
Wizard: Daniel do Espírito Santo Parro and Carlos Áquilla Lima da Conceição
Yellow cards: Anderson Conceição, Matheus Barbosa, Weverton, Ulisses, Raniel, Thiago Rodrigues (VAS); Marcão, Leandro Amaro, Sidney, Marcus Paulo (POR)
Naked: Nenê, at 30 minutes of the second half (VAS)
BASQUE: Thiago Rodrigues; Weverton, Ulisses, Anderson Conceição and Edimar; Matheus Barbosa and Juninho; Gabriel Pec (Léo Matos), Nenê and Bruno Nazário (Getúlio); Raniel (Figueiredo). Technical: Zé Ricardo
PORTUGUESE: Carlão; Watson, Marcão, Leandro Amaro and Sidão( Netinho); Sánchez, Jhonnatan, Patrick (Cafu) and Bruno Santos (Júnior Pirambu); Romarinho and Maikinho (Andrezinho). Technical: Marcus Paulo
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