Palmeiras 2×0 Noroeste: Palmeiras in the playoffs!

Palmeiras beat Noroeste at home yesterday:

[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=v_16sraaSCc]

Palmeiras entered in the 4-1-2-1-2 formation, with Diego Souza as attacking midfielder, and Keirrison and Willians as strikers. This is the favorite formation of Luxemburgo, who doesn’t like to play with three central defenders, as Palmeiras was doing in the beginning of the championship.

The coach changed Palmeiras way of play to this match, focusing the long passes and crosses, because in the afternoon a huge rain fell in São Paulo, ruining the pitch of Palestra Italia. He almost entered with two fixed strikers, Keirrison and Ortigoza, but changed his mind and kept Willians in the team.

With two goals, Keirrisson maintain the hot streak; the striker has now 16 goals in 14 games. He is the player with most goals playing in Brazil, and, if I’m not wrong, the Brazilian player all over the world with most goals this year. He loses only in average score to Atletico Mineiro’s Diego Tardelli, who has 15 goals in 12 games.

With last night win, Palmeiras is almost guaranteed in the playoffs; Palmeiras’ staff believe that with two more wins in the last six games Palmeiras will guarantee the first position, which gives the team the advantage of playing for two equals results and the last game at home in the finals.