Sao Paulo - Palmeiras
*Second leg of 1/8 final Copa Libertadores, and this game is all or nothing for both teams. Everything in this game is going in S.Paolo favour. They are running champions of Copa Libertadores 2005, they are in better form, they play at their Morumbi stadium, and they have excellent first leg resoult 1-1. But cup competitions are allways hard to predict and this is perfect oppurtunity for Verdão to bounce back after few bad resoults.
*As I said S.Paolo is in good form, they won on saturday 4-0 against Santa Cruz, but coach Muricy Ramalho wasn;t so satisfied. He said that his team played good only second half, and that they must take seriously every opponent. He also said that his team don't know how to play on a draw (S.Paolo is in 1/4 finals with 0-0), and that they will play for win.
For todays game, left lateral Junior is out with injury, and attacker Thiago is very doubtfull.
*Palmeiras is in bad form so far. They have good squad imho, but there are some problems. For tonights game, coach Marcelo Vilar can't count on these players: Daniel (injury) and Douglas (suspension). They will play tonight in formation 4-4-2. Vilar said that he knows his team must to win but they won't rush into attack... They will be patient...
*Probable squads:
SÃO PAULO: Rogério Ceni; Fabão, Lugano e André Dias; Souza, Mineiro, Josué, Danilo e Júnior; Aloísio e Thiago (Leandro)
Técnico: Muricy Ramalho
PALMEIRAS: Sérgio; Paulo Baier, Thiago Gomes, Gamarra e Lúcio; Marcinho Guerreiro, Correa, Wendel e Marcinho; Edmundo e Washington
Técnico: Marcelo Vilar (interino)
Prediction:
S.Paolo @1.75 6/10 Centrebet
Copa Libertadores 02-04.05.2006
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