The last matches of the Brazilian football season were played today. One of the local teams, Cruzeiro, were on the borderline of being relegated, so I decided to watch their match which also was a derby against Atletico-MG. Cruzeiro is vastly popular here in Belo Horizonte, so the match was quite important. The team has never been relegated and have the last few years been fighting to win the league, not to stay in the top division.
As is common in the southern parts of Europe, the Brazilian players like to take a short rest during the matches. Very often they decide to lay down for a while. They seem to have a problem with falling asleep though, instead of sleeping they roll around for a while before they get up again. This behaviour generates a lot of free kicks, which creates many good goal scoring opportunities. This could be one of the reasons behind the many goals that are scored.
Another reason could be that the Brazilian football is known to be very attack minded, which also was the case in this match. There were a lot of goals, Cruzeiro won the match 6-1. However, the many goals scored in the match were not mainly due to fantastic attacking football (which you hope for and expect of Brazilian football), instead the defenses were next to nonexistent. Almost all of the goals could have been avoided with some very basic defending or if the defenders actually would have defended.
It was therefore a very different match compared to the British and Swedish football I am used to, but it was entertaining. Even some of the divings were quite hilarious...
Corinthians won the league two points ahead of Vasco da Gama after both teams finished the season with a draw.
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