Palmeiras beats Cerro Porteño 2-1 in a Libertadores game

In the game the verdant entered the field with the absence of two of its main players, Ron It is Raphael Veiga recover from injury, their replacements were the Argentine striker Flaco Lopes and the 20 year old john johnbut what Palmeiras did not expect was a real scare right at the beginning: the Paraguayans opened the scoring four minutes into the game, Bobadilla headed it 1-0 after taking the rebound from goalkeeper Weverton, VAR still analyzed the move, but confirmed the goal.

Palmeiras went after the loss and created some chances, the first with Flaco Lopes who kicked at the Brazilian goalkeeper in the final jeanthen the goalkeeper saved the shot from Arthur.

In the second half, the team from São Paulo came after halftime with two substitutions, endrick It is rafael navarro entered in the places of Flaco Lopes and John John, the moves improved the team’s posture even more.

At 19 minutes, after the intersection, Artur kicked, goalkeeper Jean saved, but in the spare Gustavo Gomez sent it to the net, tying the match, 1 to 1, and just as happened in the Cerro Porteño goal, the VAR also analyzed the Palmeiras goal where there would be a possible interference from Artur in the bid, but after the referee’s check Fernando Rapallinithe goal was confirmed to the relief of Palmeiras.

The tie excited the Palmeiras team who went up in search of the turnaround goal, Endrick who entered very well took a shot and again goalkeeper Jean made a good defense, the goalkeeper even saved a shot from the midfielder Ze Rafael.

And after a lot of pressure, finally came the turning point in the thirty minutes: in Artur’s cross, Gustavo Gomez again appeared in the area, but this time he anticipated and headed the ball and it reached Rafael Navarro free and turned the game around. End of conversation Palmeiras 2 Cerro Porteno 1.

This was Palmeiras’ first victory in the Libertadores, with the result the group was tangled up, as all four teams including Cerro Porteño have three points, in addition to them Barcelona from Guayaquil of Ecuador and the Bolivar from Bolivia has the same score, these other two faced each other last Wednesday and the Ecuadorian team also beat the Bolivians by the score of 2 to 1.

In the next round, Palmeiras will face Barcelona away from home, and this Sunday will take the field for Brazilian championship before the Basque at Maracanã.

Featured photo: Celebration of Palmeiras players. Playback/Twitter