Sport takes on Santa Cruz, at Santa, in a game that could decide the first stage's champion. Sport has a five point lead on Santa Cruz with three games remaining (including today's). A Sport win will guarantee the championship for Sport, any other result will leave Santa with an outside chance. Over 40,000 are expected to be at the stadium to watch the game.
Santa Cruz is still learning how to play together, and when the players do know one another they will probably be a good team by Série D standards. They have no business beating Sport, but games like this are always unpredictable.
Sidny will, again, not dress for Sport. Neither will Jonas, who has also been unimpressive in his best moments. Paulo Baier will play on the right side, and Sport will switch to a 3-5-2 to allow him to play more offensively than he would in a 4-4-2. He has played well in midfield, not yet dominating games, but looking better than any Sport midfielder had in years. Now on the right side he may have less influence on the game. Santa Cruz, however, has its own Sidny in the left fullback Juca, so the move to right fullback may be a wise move on Nelsinho's part. Ciro will start on the bench, with Weldon starting in his place.
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As regular readers of this blog likely already know, Nathan Raff is no longer with us as he died this month at the young age of 32.
Nathan and I shared a love of sports and of club soccer specifically (which he introduced me to), and I'm going to be continuing to follow Sport on my own blog, The Lion's Breath.
Look forward to seeing you there! May Nathan rest in peace.
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