June 2nd, 2009 by Renato Siviero dos Santos
Palmeiras played against Gremio Barueri last Sunday, and tied 2-2: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video This game brought good and bad news for Palmeiras’ fans. The good news is that Luxemburgo decided to play with a 4-2-2-2 formation. with Diego Souza and Cleiton Xavier as attacking midfielders and [...]
May 29th, 2009 by Renato Siviero dos Santos
Palmeiras played terrible last night, and tied with Nacional, from Uruguay: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Palmeiras’ coach, Vanderlei Luxemburgo, had a terrible night, making awful decisions. The starting line-up was way to defensive to face a team that didn’t want to attack. For that reason, Luxemburgo had [...]
May 25th, 2009 by Renato Siviero dos Santos
Palmeiras and São Paulo tied the first derby of the city in the Campeonato Brasileiro: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video That was surely the game of the goalkeepers: maintaining the hot-streak, Marcos saved Palmeiras several times, not much different from São Paulo goalkeeper Denis, who was doing his [...]
May 20th, 2009 by Renato Siviero dos Santos
Palmeiras failed to achieve victory in the second game of the national competition: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Internacional is one of the favorites for the title this year, so it was the first duel against a possible enemy in the future of the championship. Palmeiras did not [...]
May 13th, 2009 by Renato Siviero dos Santos
Last night Palmeiras played the second leg off the first round of the Libertadores’ playoffs. Sport wins 1-0 and the game was decided on penalties shoot-out, since Palmeiras had won 1-0 in the first leg. Marcos saved three shoots and Palmeiras is classified to the quarter-finals of Libertadores da America. First Leg: Palmeiras 1×0 Sport [...]
May 10th, 2009 by Renato Siviero dos Santos
Palmeiras played the first game of Campeonato Brasileiro yestarday, against Coritiba: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Thinking about the Libertadores, Palmeiras’ coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo choosed to enter with the reserves and let the first 11′s resting. But after the defeat in the first half with poor creativity, he started [...]
May 3rd, 2009 by Renato Siviero dos Santos
Last Wednesday (sorry about the delay) Palmeiras beat Colo-Colo, in Chile, and guaranteed his place in the next round of Libertadores da America: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Palmeiras started the game with the 3-5-2 formation with two defensive-midfielders: Pierre and the youngster Souza. Luxemburgo said that he [...]
April 22nd, 2009 by Renato Siviero dos Santos
Palmeiras beat LDU last night and maintained the chances to go to the playoffs: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video After the elimination in Campeonato Paulista, Luxemburgo decided to return to a formation with three center-defenders, the formation used in Palmeiras’ best games. In last night game it didn’t [...]
April 20th, 2009 by Renato Siviero dos Santos
Last Saturday Palmeiras got knocked-out of Campeonato Paulista: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Different from the first leg, Santos played ay better than Palmeiras, and had no problem to guarantee the place in the final. Instead of playing defensively, Santos played as if the team had no advantage [...]
April 16th, 2009 by Renato Siviero dos Santos
Palmeiras draw last night with Sport 1-1: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Palmeiras played better the hole game because Sport didn’t attack much. This got worst when Wilson was sent off, and Sport denied attack with 10 men in the pitch. Unfortunately Palmeiras wasn’t able to break Sport’s [...]