The Brazilian league games start tomorrow, and one of the most interesting games of this round will be the Flamengo game against Palmeiras. I consider this game to be one of the most interesting because looking at the teams' positions in the table
Flamengo has 40 points and has played 20 games. If they lose tomorrow's game against Palmeiras, they will remain with 40 points, while Palmeiras will have 40 points but with 22 games. This opens up space for Botafogo to distance itself from the other teams if they beat Juventude, which is a team that is not doing well. So if Botafogo wins, while Flamengo loses, Botafogo will have a 6-point advantage and can start a race to increase this gap even further, and we would have a scenario similar to last season. Flamengo's coach has been constantly changing the starting eleven players. I don't know why he has been doing this. It's hard to know which eleven is the strongest
and in the last game, Flamengo lost to Palmeiras in a Copa do Brasil match, Bruno Henrique didn't play, so I believe that Flamengo's coach rested the players so that they could play in tomorrow's game against Palmeiras again because he knows that a defeat tomorrow could further distance them from Botafogo.
Wow, that's crazy, I looked at the game schedule yesterday and I swore that the Flamengo x Palmeiras match was for the Brazilian championship, I even commented on the points regarding the direct competitor, but it wasn't... it was a game for the Copa do Brasil hahahahaha, what a mistake I made... lol... this life of working too much is driving me crazy lol... Anyway, at least they qualified for the quarterfinals... forgive me for the mistake.
After 4 consecutive games without winning, Palmeiras finally managed to win, but they are still not doing well in attack, while Flamengo managed to move on to the next phase, but the way Flamengo has been playing, I don't see Flamengo being able to be champion of the Brazilian Championship and the Brazilian Cup.