It is not the first time in this year... Once again, the outragerous Brazilian's arbitration was capable of ruining a critical match this Wednesday. Cruzeiro and Palmeiras. The first one fight for a place in Libertadores, the second one for the first place and consequently, the title of Campeão Brasileiro. To a Cruzeirense’s disappointment and frustration, the incompetent and bastard arbiter Evando Rogério Roman lead the blue time to total disgrace in a matter of minutes and innumerable errors. The game was really an exciting one, and to my pleasure, Cruzeiro had most of ball’s possession. 6 minutes of game, Kleber with his proficiency tries to score, however, he is SOWEHOW stopped, pulled and falls inside the area. Penalty (We wish so). First error. Roman does not react to the incident, instead, he says the game should proceed. The crowd goes wild. But the blue team doesn’t ever give up. Even though favoritism was already being detected, our ‘Guerreiros’ continued to play beautifully as they always (or almost always) play. Pa-pa, we score and they score. Fault on Kleber… As always. Fault on Kleber… Fault on Kleber again. I could go on and on but this is not the focus. Again, this was really an exciting game. This was a game, until the unprepared, useless arbiter decided to act in favor of Palmeiras again. At the end of the first half, when Fabricio positioned inside of the area was ready to score a beautiful goal, showing that even with the scrupulous care of the arbiter to defend the opponent, we could win, Souza entered at his front, interfered at his kick and threw him at the grass. Well, we could, if it wasn’t for the miserable Roman, which once again did not count this obvious fault worth the maximum punishment, penalty. From this point on, Máfia Azul was furious, “Ei juíz vai toma no…” and the rest you all know. However, we did not stop cheering for our Paixão Celeste ! The first half went on and finaly finished. 1x1 due to arbitrage incompetency. The second half started, our players had total moral support from all fans at Mineirão and were showing voraciousness for our second goal. Sadly, due to one defense mistake, Palmeiras reacts and scores their second goal. Honestly, it even helped encouraging our players. Without further sadness, our players continued to react. Bad luck was all over us. We tried and tried to score, but unfortunately, the ball wouldn’t tremble the net (Palmeirenses would say it was because of Marcos, their goalie... Their mistake, purely bad luck). Again, we had most of ball’s possession. From time to time Palmeiras decided to attack but they wouldn’t pass our players or even would just give up. It was just simply amazing how brutal the green players were once they realized they were being threatened. This leads us to Roman’s third major error. Armero, a player from the opposite team, who already had received others yellow cards, made a fault inside the area. This was supposed to be Cruzeiro’s third or even first penalty kick, however, once again, Roman was incompetent enough to misunderstand the play and only expel Armero. After another injustice, our players attacked all time possible. A sequence of offensive plays happened, but we were unluckily enough to don’t score a single goal.
Finally, an observation to some Palmeirenses who believe this game was a significant one: It must be really futile for a Palmeirense to be proud of this game. It does not only show how useless they are, but also, how pathetic it is to be proud of a game in which an arbiter had to be involved so they could succeed. Even though we lost, at least I’m proud to say that we played better, proud to be Cruzeiro.
I strongly encourage all readers to access this link and read the letter Cruzeiro Esporte Clube's president, Zezé Perrella wrote about the poor actuation of Evandro Rogério Roman.
"Saudações Celestes"
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