Bola Rolando: Operário's fat is gone, now it's win or complicate

Operário Ferroviário x Botafogo-SP is one of those games in which the table speaks louder than any speech. This Wednesday (7), at 7:30 p.m., the Ghost enters the field knowing exactly what it needs to do: win. The famous “fat” conquered throughout the Serie B is over. From now on, every point lost can be very expensive.

The 32nd round started on Tuesday (6) showing just that. There is no easy game in this final straight of the Brazilian Championship.

Sport beat São Bernardo 2-1 on Retiro Island. Goiás also beat Athletic 2-1 at Haile Pinheiro, while Juventude defeated Ponte Preta 2-0 at Indaiatuba.

Results that directly affected the top of the classification and also the situation of the Worker.

Youth takes the lead

With the victory over Ponte Preta, Youth reached 59 points and provisionally took the lead in Serie B.

Vila Nova appears just behind, at 57, but still plays in this round. On Wednesday, he receives Cuiabá at the Onésio Brasileiro Alvarenga stadium, in Goiânia. If you win, you will reach 60 points and resume the first place.

It's a tight fight. And not just at the top.

The sport reached 50 points with the victory over São Bernardo and surpassed the teams that were in front of him.

The Worker, with 48 points, fell to the ninth place.

But the account for the Phantom is simple: beating Botafogo-SP, he reaches 51 points and rises again in the rankings, keeping alive the hope of approaching again the group that fights for access.

No more room for stumbling

This is where the importance of tonight’s game lies.

There are some rounds it was still possible to say that the Worker had a small margin to err. Not now.

The fat's over.

A tie would be bad. A defeat, even worse.

Mathematically, of course, the championship would remain open. But one thing is math to allow. Another is the reality of the table showing that there is a way to get there.

The fewer rounds left, the smaller the margin to recover the wasted points.

Therefore, against Botafogo-SP, the Worker needs to enter the field thinking about three points.

Botafogo-SP also plays under pressure

Whoever imagines that the Phantom will have ease because he faces a team that is at the bottom of the classification needs to look closely at the games of this round.

The Botafogo de Ribeirão Preto also needs the result.

The São Paulo team is close to the relegation zone and needs to add points to increase the distance from the last placed.

That’s exactly what makes the game dangerous.

In this final straight, virtually every team has something important in dispute.

Avaí faces Londrina in direct confrontation in the fight against the relegation. CRB and Atlético-GO also enter the field on Wednesday. América-MG and Fortaleza have another round confrontation, while Vila Nova and Cuiabá measure forces in Goiânia.

On Thursday (8), Náutico and Novorizontino, in addition to Ceará and Criciúma, complete the 32nd round.

Everybody's taking care of it.

Tuesday's games have left a warning.

Those who followed Tuesday’s games realized that no one is winning easily.

Goiás had to wait until the final minutes to beat Athletic.

The Sport had a lot of work in front of São Bernardo before building the 2-1.

Even the Youth, who ended up beating the Ponte Preta by 2 to 0, had to administer a difficult confrontation before confirming the result.

This is the B series.

At this point in the championship, the shirt, the position on the table and the favoritism help very little when the ball starts rolling.

You have to compete.

The worker will have to make little mistakes

The path for the Worker on Wednesday passes through some words that seem simple, but will be fundamental: concentration, intensity, patience and efficiency.

The Phantom cannot enter desperately for the need to win.

Nor can you enter seated waiting for the goal to appear naturally.

You'll have to work on the game.

The Luizinho Lopes team is expected to have Vagner in the goal; Doka, Cuenú, Joseph and Feliciano in the defensive system; Trinity, Vinícius Diniz and Boschilia in the middle; and an offensive sector with players like Berto, Caio Dantas and Aylon among the coach’s alternatives.

On the other hand, Botafogo-SP has experienced players, mainly in the midfield, with names such as Matheus Sales, Everton Morelli and Rafael Gava.

It is a team that can create problems if the Worker offers spaces.

The coach of Botafogo-SP is Cláudio Tencati, old known of Paraná football for the long trajectory in Londrina.

Victory keeps the dream alive

And we get to the main point of this column.

Can the worker still dream?

Yes, you can.

But you need to turn the dream into points.

It is no use looking only at the opponents, cheering for trips or making projections for the last rounds if the Ghost himself does not fulfill his part.

The victory on Wednesday would bring the Worker to 51 points and put the team back in a much more interesting position on the table.

A defeat would not mathematically end the possibilities, but would make the way much narrower.

And a tie would also be far from the desired outcome.

So there's not much talk for tonight's duel.

It's winning.

BnT follows everything from 6:30 pm

Operário Ferroviário x Botafogo-SP starts at 19:30, but coverage of the Portal BnT Online starts an hour earlier.

From 6:30 p.m., Esquenta brings the latest information, climbs, stadium environment and all the preparation for the sporting journey.

The broadcast will also have the partnership of Rádio Cescage FM 107.7, in addition to BnT’s digital platforms.

Before that, from 11am to 12pm, the BnT Esportes also resonates with the Series B round and prepares the fan for another decisive night.

Because from now on, they'll all be like that.

Decisive.

The Worker made a campaign that allowed him to reach the 32nd round still looking up.

Now you need to prove inside the field that you really want to keep looking for the Série A.

The fat's over. The time has come to win.

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