At home Atlético Mineiro beats the namesake Paranaense and stays alive in Libertadores

Night of the Atléticos, in a match valid for the 4th round of the group stage of the Libertadores of America, Atlético Mineiro received Athlético Paranaense in the Pampulha giant and won the turnaround game by 2-1, in a brilliant night of the player Paulinho who scored the winning goals. With the feat, alvinegro remains alive in the fight for the classification of Group G.

The most important thing happened:

1st time: The first 5 minutes the game was truncated, very tied by the midfield and the intermediaries. At 8′ Hulk manages to shoot with a calm defense by goalkeeper Bento, in the next minute Erick steals the ball through midfield Vitor Roque is unable to complete the move to finish. At 15′ Paulinho launches Hulk who finishes first, but the excellent goalkeeper Bento makes a great save. The home team continued to attack and at 26′ Zaracho risked a kick to Bento’s hands, the referee conceded 3 more minutes of added time, inflamed by the crowd Pavon kicked and collided with the defense again, maintaining equality on the scoreboard.

During the break, Paulo Turra changes the team Furacão Rubro-Negro, removing Vitor Roque and putting Tomás Cuello, Atlético Mineiro returned to the second stage without changes.

2nd time: At 3′ Hyoran receives a pass from Hulk who left-handed and kicked the ball but stopped on the crossbar, after a blunder by the alvinegro’s defense at 5′ the hurricane opens the scoring, Alex Santana opens the scoring when goalkeeper Éverson misses. At 11′ Rubens releases a bomb, and Bento spreads it out.

Eduardo Coudet performed a triple substitution at Atlético > Leaving Mariano, Hyoran and Rubens for the entry of Saravia, Igor Gomes and Patrick.

no longer hurricane Christian comes out and Vitor Bueno comes in, the moves have had an effect for the rooster who continues to drown in the attack until a shot of opportunity at 23′ Paulinho ties the match. Atlético-MG increased the pace and Athletico PR began to retreat, since then the game had the characteristic of attack against defense.

At 36′, the home team armed the attack, replacing Pavon, who was already tired by Eduardo Vargas. In the technical fight, Turra also changes, leaving Pedro Henrique and Pablo entering: Willian and Matheus Felipe in the vacancies. At the 40′ mark, Igor Gomes hits a free kick and Paulinho turns the game around for Atlético Mineiro. Then Paulinho leaves for Edenilson to enter.

He was born to score goals for #Rooster at Libertadores, forget it! pic.twitter.com/DBJxy8mOAN

— Athletic (@Atletico) May 24, 2023

_{Paulinho celebrating the goal (Reproduction/Twitter)}

6 minutes were added to regular time, which did not change the dynamics of the game the team from Minas Gerais dominated the actions for most of the match, which corroborates the statistics:

Ball possession: CAM 61% / CAP 39%

Finishes: CAM 16/ CAP 5

Total passes: CAM 526 / CAP 189

dangerous attacks: CAM 68/ CAP 19

Datasheet

Date and time: 05/23/2023 at 7:00 pm

Reason: Libertadores group stage

Location: Mineirão – Belo Horizonte

Referee: Wilmar Roldán – Assistants: Dionisio Ruíz, Sebastian Vela (Colombian Trio)

VAR: Angelo Hermosilla (CHI)

Yellow card:

1- Tempo: Bataglia, Mariano, Pavon (CAM).

2- Tempo: Pablo, Cannobio, Augustin, Terans, Madson (CAP), Paulinho (CAM).

The Atlético Mineiro team went to the field with the following lineup: Éverson, Mariano, Jemerson, Nathan Silva, Rubens, Battaglia, Zaracho, Hyoran, Pavón, in attack Paulinho and Hulk. Technician: Eduardo Coudet.

The club from Paraná performed with the following initial formation: Bento, Madson, P. Henrique, T. Heleno, Fernando, H. Moura, Erick, Christian, Cannobio, Pablo and Vitor Roque. Technician: Paulo Turra.

With the defeat, the team from Paraná did not lose the first place in the group – Classification of group G:

Athletico-PR – 7 points

Atlético Mineiro – 6 points

Alliance Lima – 4 points

Freedom – 3 points

Also this Tuesday (23) in the 4th round of the same group, Alianza Lima and Libertad will face off at the Alejandro Villanueva stadium at 11 pm.

Featured photo: Athletic fans. Playback/ Twitter