Santos and Avaí, the only ones who could take away the leadership of the Corinthians in the Brazilian Championship, they failed this Sunday in their attempt to jump to first place and they let the São Paulo club remain isolated in the leadership of the League after playing the sixth day.
While Avaí was defeated at home by 1-2 by Juventudewho had not achieved any victory in the tournament so far, Saints lost 1-2 during his visit to the humble Goiás, a club that was among the last in the classification.
setbacks favored Corinthians, who tied 2-2 on Saturday in their visit to Internacional and reached 13 points in six games, which allow him to remain the leader, now with a unit advantage over Atlético Mineiro, current Brazilian champion and on Saturday they beat Atlético Goianiense 2-0.
Avaí, who theoretically had the easiest commitment because he would receive the irregular Juventude at home, fell 2-1 to a heroic rival which ended with two players sent off.
Juventude, who got their first win of the season but are still in the bottom four of the standings, opened the scoring in the 24th minute of the first half with a note from Paraguayan Óscar Ruíz.
Although Bissoli managed to equalize for Avaí even in the first half, Vitor Mendes put Juventude ahead again In the second half.
And Santos, who until Friday was second in the standings, dropped to fifth position after losing 1-0 on his visit to Goiás, a club that was among the bottom of the classification and only had one victory in the season.
Goiás opened the scoring in the first half through Elvis and he knew how to manage his advantage until the end.
The missteps of Avaí and Santos were also taken advantage of by Sao Paulo, which this Sunday they beat Cuiabá 2-1 comeback and jumped to third place in the standings, with 11 points and two behind the leader.
Although Jenison opened the scoring 33 minutes into the first half for Cuiabá after a mistake by Ecuadorian Robert Arboleda, the tricolor from São Paulo reacted in the second half with a penalty goal scored by Argentine Jonathan Calleri and a goal by Nikao with 15 minutes remaining.
The new annotation further isolated Calleri as top scorer of the Brazilian Championship, with six goals in six games.
Another who benefited from the results of the day was the Botafogo, who also defeated Fortaleza 3-1 with a comeback and jumped to fourth place in the standings, with the same 11 points from Sao Paulo and two from Corinthians.
Moisés opened the scoring for Fortaleza, the club led by Argentine coach Juan Vojvoda, but the traditional team from Rio de Janeiro, which this year returned to the first division, he reversed with goals from Érison, Patrick de Paula and Daniel Borges.
The defeat sank Fortress in the last place of the classificationwith only one point and no win.
Corinthians remained at the top of the League thanks to difficult 2-2 draw that he reaped on Saturday during his visit to Internacional in a match marred by a controversy over racism.
the portuguese side Raphael Ramosa Corinthians player, was arrested at the end of the game at the Beira-Río stadium in the city of Porto Alegre -and released after paying bail- after having been charged with racial slur by the Edenilson flyer.
According to the Inter player, who said he only went to the police because he was waiting for an apology that he never receivedRamos told him “foda-se macaco” (fuck you monkey) during an argument they had 30 minutes into the second half.
The winger alleged in his defense that it was a misunderstanding due to his Portuguese accent from Portugal, a little different from the Portuguese from Brazil, and stated that what he said to the rival was “foda-se, caralho” (fuck you)a common insult in his country.
In another of Saturday’s games, Atletico Mineiro, who last year won the titles of the Brazilian Championship and the Copa do Brasil, beat Atlético Goianiense 2-0, puse end to a sequence of four games without knowing the victory and rose to second place in the standings, one point behind the leader.
The group commanded by Argentine coach Antonio “El Turco” Mohamed, who had suffered three draws and one defeat in his last commitments, won with a goal from the veteran Hulk, his top scorerand a goal on his own by Marlon Freitas.