Vasco inflicted a merciless defeat, ensuring the continuation of the Series A and holding the Internazionale

In a duel that lasted more than three hours, Vasco He ended any risk of relegation this season. After five straight defeats, Fernando Diniz’s side bounced back in style, registering a 5-1 defeat at home. internationalToday, Friday, in the 36th round of the league Brazilian Championship. The confrontation was interrupted for more than an hour due to a storm that flooded the floor of Sao Januario Stadium.

In both halves, Vasco started the game brilliantly and scored goals within 10 minutes. The match started with Andres Gomez opening the scoring, in the one minute, and in the eighth minute, Al Rayyan increased. Before half-time, Ricardo Matias gave Inter hope, which quickly disappeared in the second half, when Ryan, Barros and Nuno Moreira scored once again.

With this impressive result, Vasco reached 45 points, eliminating any chance of relegation. The team is ranked tenth in the South American classification zone and will now be able to focus on the semi-finals of the Brazilian Cup in December. Internationale has become more complex, especially in the emotional aspect. The team maintains 41 points and may enter the relegation zone at the end of the round.

After the ball had been rolling for 45 minutes, a powerful storm hit São Januario Stadium, completely flooding the stadium. After adhering to the 30-minute protocol to normalize the situation, both Vasco and Internacional did not want to resume the match.

The situation became tense when the referee twice insisted on starting the second half, but representatives of the two clubs clashed with the referee to postpone the match. Coach Fernando Diniz was the most enthusiastic, claiming a lack of “playability”. While Inter president Alessandro Barcelos expressed his concern about the physical safety of the athletes. After long talks, the two teams returned to the field and began warming up.

Vasco had a great start and actually won the match 2-0 with 100% success on two shots. Immediately, within a minute, they took the lead, with Andres Gomez creating a beautiful individual effort. In the ninth, Ryan received the ball on the edge of the area and shot it low to expand. The Rio team was not aware of Internacional. Coutinho took a risk from a long distance and hit the crossbar.

After 30 minutes, Vasco lightened the game’s intensity, especially with the rain pouring down. This was the moment when the Gauchos entered the game, starting to hesitate in the attacking midfield and balancing their possession of the ball. Bernabei put the first shot wide. In the final move, Inter scored a goal after Ricardo Matias cleared the cross from the left side, keeping the team alive in the second half.

The ball returned in a different context, but the scenario remained the same. Once again Vasco prevailed and within two minutes scored the third goal. Andres Gomes received a long throw and crossed low for Ryan to push the ball into the goal. Shortly after, when Barros was 11 years old, he made two attempts before blasting past Gaucho. Taking advantage of Inter’s fragility, Ryan stole the ball from the penalty area and rolled the ball for Nuno Moreira to shoot from an angle and Rocher was in trouble to start adding numbers to the rout.

The goals practically ended Internacional’s feelings. Fragile on the pitch, he loses any conflict and makes mistakes when in possession. Even when Vasco slowed down, the team made little use of it, misusing crosses into the box and countering Cruzmaltino counterattacks. In the final half, when he saw the opponent without any reaction, he led the defeat with Ouellet coming from the stands.

Vasco now faces Mirasol, who are still in Sao Januario, in Rio de Janeiro next Tuesday, at 7pm. Internacional visits São Paulo, on Wednesday, at 8pm, in Villa Belmiro, in Santos.

Vasco 5×1 International

• Vasco -Leo Jardim; Paulo Henrique, Carlos Cuesta, Robert Renan and Lucas Beaton; Barros, Thiago Mendes (Puma Rodriguez), Philippe Coutinho (Vegete); Andres Gomez (Mattheus France), Ryan (Paulinho) and Nuno Moreira (Hugo Moura). Coach: Fernando Diniz.
• international – Rocher; Bruno Gomez, Aguirre (Ricardo Matias), Mercado, Vitao and Bernabe; Thiago Maia (Luis Otavio) (Bruno Henrique), Allan Rodriguez and Allan Patrick (Boré); Carbonero and Vitinho. Coach: Ramon Diaz.
• Objectives – Andres Gomez in one minute, Al Rayyan in the ninth minute, Ricardo Matias in the 47th minute of the first half. Ryan, in the second, Barros, in the 11th, Nuno Moreira, in the 19th minute of the second half.
• Yellow cards – Carbonero.
• arbitrator – Rodrigo Jose Pereira de Lima (PE).
• income – 1,313,832.00 Brazilian reals.
• general – 19,330 fans.
• location – Sao Januario Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro (RJ).