Declarações após o jogo Nacional-SC Braga (1-0), da nona jornada da I Liga portuguesa de futebol, disputado hoje no Estádio da Madeira, no Funchal:
– Franclim Carvalho (treinador do SC Braga): “É uma estreia [no campeonato] amarga para mim e um jogo amargo para nós. Apresentámos uma cara diferente, que não é a nossa e que não pode ser a nossa. Esta camisola, este símbolo, requer muita responsabilidade e, acima de tudo, outra atitude, que nós não tivemos e que vamos ter de passar a ter.
Tivemos muita posse de bola, andámos muito perto da área do adversário, algo também consentido pelo adversário, obviamente, mas não fomos incisivos. Isso refletiu-se em dois ou três remates à baliza do adversário e zero golos, porque faltou exatamente isso. Faltou muito mais incisão e muito mais agressividade no último terço.
Temos de ter muito mais agressividade quando temos a bola, temos de ter muitos mais movimentos com bola, os jogadores que não têm a bola têm de ter outra mobilidade e temos de ser mais incisivos na frente”.
– Bruno Abreu (treinador do Nacional): Sentimento de dever cumprido, essencialmente pela felicidade de ter visto a atitude que os jogadores tiveram. […] Eu já tinha dito que havia muita vontade e que estava com boas sensações, fruto daquilo que via no microciclo semanal. Os jogadores tiveram uma atitude fantástica e acreditaram. Fico feliz por isso. O dever cumprido é pela conquista dos três pontos.
A equipa teve uma atitude fantástica, defendeu muito bem sem estar perto da baliza. Queríamos fechar bem os espaços e poder depois aproveitar algum deslize da equipa do Sporting de Braga. A nossa estratégia assentou nesse aspeto.
“Acho que o mais importante, sem descurar as questões táticas e de organização, tem a ver com a mentalidade e como encaramos o jogo. Independentemente de jogarmos da forma que perspetivamos, eu acho que o importante é a questão mental. E, no fundo, houve algum trabalho nesse sentido”.
Declarações após o jogo Rio Ave-Famalicão (0-4), da nona jornada da I Liga portuguesa de futebol, disputado hoje no Estádio do Rio Ave FC, em Vila do Conde:
– Ricardo Silva (treinador interino do Famalicão): “A equipa deu uma belíssima resposta. Os jogadores interpretaram muito bem os processos que procurámos transmitir e trabalhar durante a semana. Conseguimos uma vitória que permite devolver aos adeptos a confiança e a alegria de apoiar o clube.
Vínhamos de momentos diferentes. O Rio Ave estava embalado por duas vitórias e nós atravessávamos uma fase menos conseguida. Mas, pela forma como os jogadores trabalharam e responderam durante a semana, tinha a certeza de que daríamos uma resposta positiva.
Se estava à espera deste resultado? Não vou mentir, não estava. Mas esperava esta atitude e esta demonstração de força. Os jogadores não me surpreenderam pelo que colocaram em campo, embora o resultado tenha superado aquilo que esperava.
Esta vitória não é minha nem do treinador Carlos Carvalhal. É inteiramente dos jogadores, pelo trabalho que fizeram e por acreditarem numa ideia que lhes foi proposta. Foram eles que ganharam este jogo, por eles próprios e por todos os que vieram apoiar-nos.
Enquanto treinador interino, compete-me fazer os jogadores acreditar que têm capacidade para resolver os problemas. Sinto uma felicidade enorme e o dever cumprido. A administração tomará a decisão que entender ser melhor para o futuro do Famalicão e estarei sempre disponível para ajudar, seja nesta posição ou noutra função.
Fico extremamente feliz pelo Óscar Aranda. Todos conhecemos as suas qualidades e, depois dos problemas físicos que atravessou, precisava de um momento destes para recuperar a confiança. Trabalhámos nos treinos os movimentos em que pode ser decisivo e ele conseguiu concretizá-los”.
– Vasco Seabra (treinador do Rio Ave): “Compreendo que os adeptos tenham razões para assobiar ou aplaudir. Pagam as quotas, gostam do clube e têm todo o direito de expressar as suas emoções. Temos de conseguir trazê-los para o nosso lado com atitude, paixão e compromisso.
O resultado é ingrato, demasiado expressivo e penalizador perante aquilo que foi o desempenho das duas equipas. Temos de dar os parabéns ao Famalicão, que é uma boa equipa, com bons valores individuais, mas houve momentos-chave que marcaram o jogo.
O primeiro foi o golo num remate de longe, que desbloqueou a partida. Depois, tivemos uma oportunidade do Blesa, isolado, em que o guarda-redes defendeu para o poste. Se tivéssemos empatado nesse momento, acredito que poderíamos ter levado o jogo mais para o nosso lado.
Até ao segundo golo, competimos e procurámos sempre chegar ao empate. Depois, a equipa perdeu energia e capacidade competitiva. Isso demonstra que estamos a dar passos, mas ainda não conseguimos ser a equipa que queremos durante os 90 minutos.
Aceitei este desafio por acreditar que podemos construir algo positivo juntos. Queremos criar uma cultura e uma mentalidade vencedoras, em que cada duelo e cada centímetro de relva sejam disputados para ganhar. Essa mentalidade não se constrói em dois dias.
Não podemos entrar em euforia quando ganhamos, nem em depressão quando perdemos. Temos de manter o equilíbrio, perceber o que fizemos bem e mal e continuar a trabalhar. Tenho a certeza de que estaremos melhores na próxima semana e ainda melhores daqui a um mês”.
O Nacional, ainda sob o comando técnico do interino Bruno Abreu, venceu hoje o SC Braga, por 1-0, num jogo da nona jornada da I Liga portuguesa de futebol em que os madeirenses souberam sofrer.
Un golo de Miguel Baeza, aos 19 minutos, decidiu a partida a favor do emblema insular, que vinha de seis derrotas consecutivas para o campeonato, sendo que os minhotos tiveram muita bola, mas criaram poucos lances de perigo, em partida disputada no Estádio da Madeira, no Funchal.
Com este triunfo, o Nacional ascendeu ao 15.º lugar e ‘respira’ melhor na classificação, fora da zona de despromoção, com sete pontos, tantos como o Casa Pia, 16.º, em zona de disputa de play-off de manutenção, e do Rio Ave, 17.º, em zona de descida direta.
Por sua vez, o conjunto minhoto, sem vencer há quatro jogos para a Liga, com três derrotas e um empate, segue na nona posição, com 11 pontos, mais longe dos lugares ‘europeus’.
O SC Braga teve sempre mais posse de bola praticamente desde início, contudo, com pouca objetividade, sobretudo nos primeiros 45 minutos, diante de um Nacional sempre confortável a jogar em bloco baixo.
A estratégia teve os efeitos pretendidos e, após um primeiro quarto de hora sem ocasiões a registar, os madeirenses chegaram mesmo à vantagem, na melhor jogada coletiva do primeiro tempo.
Após um lance bem trabalhado pela esquerda, Son Min-kyu encontrou Miguel Baeza solto de marcação à entrada da área, com o espanhol a rematar sem hipóteses para Bernardo Fontes, ao minuto 19.
Em desvantagem, a toada manteve-se e o SC Braga apenas criou uma oportunidade flagrante até ao intervalo, na sequência de um cruzamento bem medida de Gabriel Silva, com Pau Victor, em excelente posição na área, a cabecear ligeiramente ao lado, aos 34.
Após o descanso, Franclim Carvalho procedeu a uma tripla alteração, fazendo entrar João Moutinho, Dorgeles e Gabri Martinez, por Tommy Marquês, Gorby e Gabriel Silva, em claro descontentamento com o desempenho na primeira parte.
As trocas não surtiram o efeito pretendido e demorou até que o SC Braga conseguisse imprimir maior dinâmica num desafio que correu quase sempre de feição para os insulares.
A primeira oportunidade no segundo tempo até surgiu de bola parada, pelo recém-entrado Moutinho, que assumiu a cobrança de um livre direto e ‘atirou’ perto do poste da baliza à guarda de Renato Marín, aos 52.
Empolgados pelo público, os jogadores do Nacional começaram a acreditar cada vez mais e quase fizeram o 2-0, pouco depois, por Stavros Gavriel, num lance de contra-ataque em que Bernardo Fontes foi obrigado a defesa apertada.
Por volta do minuto 70 e numa fase em que os bracarenses praticamente só recorriam a cruzamentos, quase todos sem sucesso, Fran Navarro cabeceou à barra, na melhor oportunidade dos minhotos na etapa complementar.
Os bracarenses foram perdendo discernimento, ao passo que os jogadores ‘alvinegros’ conseguiram gerir as incidências sem problemas de maior, até que o árbitro apitou para o fim, provocando uma enorme ‘explosão’ da alegria nas bancadas, com o regresso do Nacional aos triunfos, seis jogos depois.
Ficha de Jogo
Jogo realizado no Estádio da Madeira, no Funchal.
Nacional – SC Braga, 1-0.
Ao intervalo: 1-0.
Marcador
1-0, Miguel Baeza, 19 minutos.
Equipas
– Nacional: Renato Marin, José Vítor, William Kokolo, Francisco Gonçalves, Matheus Dias, Markus Jensen (Deivison Souza, 68), Chiheb Labidi (Danel Dongmo, 77), Miguel Baeza (Daniel Júnior, 86), Stavros Gavriel, Song Min-kyu (Matchoi Djaló, 68) e Njoya Abdel (Pablo Ruan, 77).
(Suplentes: João Gonçalves, Daniel de la Cruz, Deivison, Ivanildo Fernandes, José Gomes, Matchoi Djaló, Danel Dongmo, Joel Silva, Fernando Nava, Pablo Ruan, Daniel Júnior e Allen Obando).
Treinador: Bruno Abreu.
– SC Braga: Bernardo Fontes, Victor Gómez, Bright Arrey-Mbi (Denis Huseinbasic, 76), Sergio Barcia, Gustaf Lagerbielke, Tommy Marqués (João Moutinho, 46), Gorby Baptiste (Mario Dorgeles, 46), Pau Victor, Gabriel Silva (Gabri Martinez, 46), Ricardo Horta e Jovan Milosevic (Fran Navarro, 62).
(Suplentes: João Carvalho, Diogo Travassos, Vítor Carvalho, Adrian Bajrami, Adrian Barisic, João Moutinho, Demir Tiknaz, Denis Huseinbasic, Diego Rodrigues, Mario Dorgeles, Fran Navarro e Gabri Martínez).
Treinador: Franclim Carvalho.
Árbitro: José Bessa (AF Porto).
Ação disciplinar: Cartão amarelo para Francisco Gonçalves (33), Sergio Barcia (79), Stavros Gavriel (86) e Gustaf Lagerbielke (90+4).
O Famalicão goleou hoje o Rio Ave 4-0, na nona jornada da I Liga de futebol, numa estreia vitoriosa do interino Ricardo Silva, perante uma equipa vila-condense sem reação.
Beney (48 minutos), Pedro Santos (81) e Aranda (85 e 90+5), o último de grande penalidade, marcaram os golos dos minhotos, hoje com uma exibição pragmática, que quebrou uma série de duas derrotas consecutivas em todas as competições.
Orientados interinamente por Ricardo Silva, antigo adjunto de Carlos Carvalhal, que deixou o clube após a eliminação da Taça de Portugal, os famalicenses apresentaram-se mais perigosos na primeira parte, apesar do equilíbrio inicial.
A superioridade famalicense traduziu-se nas oportunidades de Mathias de Amorim, que rematou por cima aos 21 minutos, e, sobretudo, nas intervenções de Vítor Hugo, que negou o golo a Szucs e Léo Realpe, aos 23 e 24, respetivamente.
Do lado vila-condense, a produção ofensiva resumiu-se praticamente a um cabeceamento de Jalen Blesa, aos 30 minutos, defendido sem dificuldades por Carevic, mantendo-se o empate sem golos até ao intervalo.
A igualdade foi desfeita logo no arranque da segunda parte, com Beney a aproveitar espaço na direita e, com um belo remate de fora da área, inaugurou o marcador, aos 48, num ‘tiro’ sem possibilidade de defesa.
Em desvantagem, o Rio Ave procurou assumir maior iniciativa, mas continuou a revelar dificuldades na criação de oportunidades, tendo, aos 73 minutos, desperdiçado a melhor ocasião, quando Blesa, isolado, rematou para uma defesa de Carevic, que desviou a bola para o poste.
O lance marcou o último momento de verdadeira ameaça dos vila-condenses, que perderam consistência na reta final e permitiram ao Famalicão transformar uma vantagem mínima numa goleada, com dois ‘trunfos’ vindos do banco.
Aos 81 minutos, Pedro Santos concluiu de primeira uma jogada construída por Sorriso, ampliando a diferença, antes de assistir Óscar Aranda, que, quatro minutos depois, finalizou em esforço, regressando aos golos mais de um ano e meio depois de ter sofrido uma lesão grave.
Já nos descontos, uma falta de Petrasso sobre Mathias de Amorim dentro da área permitiu a Óscar Aranda elevar-se a figura da noite e ‘bisar’, na conversão de uma grande penalidade, fixando o resultado final em 4-0.
Ficha de Jogo
Jogo no Estádio do Rio Ave Futebol Clube, em Vila do Conde.
Rio Ave – Famalicão, 0-4.
Ao intervalo: 0-0.
Marcadores
0-1, Beney, 48 minutos.
0-2, Pedro Santos, 81.
0-3, Aranda, 85.
0-4, Aranda, 90+5 (grande penalidade).
Equipas
– Rio Ave: Vítor Hugo, João Tomé (Zé Carlos, 66), Petrasso, Ntoi, Vrousai, Liavas (Spikic, 82), Diogo Nascimento, Clemmensen (Sellouki, 66), Miguel Patrício (Galcik, 77), Diogo Bezerra (Tamble Monteiro, 82) e Jalen Blesa.
(Suplentes: Van der Gouw, Simon Garcia, Gustavo Mancha, Zé Carlos, Nikitscher, Sellouki, Ryan Guilherme, Antoine, Galcik, Spikic e Tamble Monteiro).
Treinador: Vasco Seabra.
– Famalicão: Carevic, Victor Rofino, Léo Realpe, Gustavo Garcia, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Szucs (Pedro Santos, 60), Tom van de Looi (Marcos Peña, 83), Beney (Paulo Moreira, 66), Mathias de Amorim, Sorriso (Aranda, 83) e Koutsias (Patrício Salas, 60).
(Suplentes: Zlobin, Gabriel Cabral, Van Breemen, Serafimovic, Jangeal, Paulo Moreira, Pedro Santos, Marcos Peña, Patricio Salas, Aranda e Abubakar).
Treinador: Ricardo Silva.
Árbitro: Hélder Carvalho (AF Santarém).
Ação disciplinar: Cartão amarelo para Vasco Seabra (40), Miguel Patrício (42), Zé Carlos (80) e Petrasso (90+3).
O Sport Clube de Vila Real regressou este domingo ao Campo do Calvário, onde recebeu e venceu o Mesão Frio por 7-1, num jogo da oitava jornada da Divisão de Honra da Associação de Futebol de Vila Real (AFVR). O regresso a casa ficou também marcado pelas manifestações de desagrado de alguns adeptos do clube relativamente ao estado do relvado sintético.
Uma tarja colocada no exterior do recinto, mas visível para quem se encontrava nas bancadas, deu expressão à insatisfação em torno das condições do piso de jogo, com a inscrição “o Calvário não é para remendar”. A mensagem surgiu num momento de regresso ao histórico campo, que voltou a receber a equipa alvinegra.
Dentro das quatro linhas, o Vila Real impôs-se com um resultado expressivo frente ao Mesão Frio, começando a vencer cedo na partida. Ainda não tinham passado dois minutos de jogo e Mika colocou os líderes da classificação da AFVR a vencer.
Ainda na primeira parte, John Lucas e João Maia marcaram para o Vila Real, enquanto Mika, de grande penalidade, carimbou o único golo dos visitantes. Na segunda parte, João Maia completou o hat-trick, enquanto Cláudio Mateus e André Azevedo fecharam as contas deste embate.
A jornada ficou ainda marcada pela vitória do Pedras em casa do Cumieira, por cinco bolas a zero, e o Régua bateu o Constantim por 2-1, com Jota a bisar.
O Moreirense venceu hoje por 3-1 na visita ao Estoril Praia, na nona jornada da I Liga portuguesa de futebol, e regressou aos triunfos no campeonato, enquanto os ‘canarinhos’ continuam sem ganhar.
No Estádio António Coimbra da Mota, a formação de Moreira de Cónegos adiantou-se no marcador com um golo de Manuel Mendonça, aos 12 minutos, e ampliou a vantagem com tentos de Tiago Andrade, aos 15, e Nile John, aos 28, com a equipa da casa a reduzir por Peixinho, aos 90+4.
Com este resultado, o Moreirense regressa aos triunfos, depois de dois jogos sem vencer, e passa a somar 11 pontos, no 10.º posto da I Liga, enquanto o Estoril Praia, orientado pelo interino Sérgio Raimundo depois da saída de Vasco Matos, averbou a quarta derrota seguida e é a única equipa sem vitórias, estando no 18.º e último lugar, com apenas dois pontos.
Ficha de Jogo
Jogo realizado no Estádio António Coimbra da Mota, no Estoril.
Estoril Praia – Moreirense, 1-3.
Marcadores
0-1, Manuel Mendonça, 12 minutos.
0-2, Tiago Andrade, 15.
0-3, Nile John, 28.
1-3, Peixinho, 90+4.
Equipas
– Estoril Praia: Joel Robles, Ricard Sánchez (Pedro Carvalho, 46), Xavi, Ferro, Jurišić, Tsoungui (Xeka, 69), Holsgrove, João Carvalho (Peixinho, 58), Guitane, Omerovic (Lacximicant, 46) e Camblan (Medrano, 58).
(Suplentes: Martin Turk, Pedro Carvalho, Samuel Amissah, Jordan Arnolin, Stelios Andreou, Ismael Sierra, Medrano, Tiago Parente, Robin, Xeka, Lacximicant e Peixinho).
Treinador: Sérgio Raimundo.
– Moreirense: André Ferreira, Dinis Pinto, Kevyn, Gilberto Batista, Francisco Domingues, Guilherme Liberato, Manuel Mendonça (Rodrigo Alonso, 58), Nile John (Landerson, 69), Kiko Bondoso (Stjepanović, 69), Vonić (Lincon, 80) e Tiago Andrade (Álvaro Martínez, 80).
(Suplentes: Francisco Barbosa, Aranha, Leandro Santos, Janderson, Álvaro Martínez, Stjepanović, Afonso Assis, Chipyoka Songa, Rodrigo Alonso, Lincon e Landerson).
Treinador: Vasco Botelho da Costa.
Árbitro: Carlos Macedo (AF Braga).
Ação disciplinar: Cartão amarelo para Omerovic (23), Tsoungui (26), Gilberto Batista (90) e Lacximicant (90+2).
Diversas denúncias publicadas nas redes sociais neste sábado (25) acusaram a companhia aérea Gol de ter cancelado voos em massa que sairiam de Porto Alegre para o Nordeste transportando centenas de eleitores. A empresa negou os cancelamentos em massa e afirmou que apenas um voo, com destino a Salvador, foi cancelado no Aeroporto Salgado Filho, em Porto Alegre.
Em nota oficial, a companhia informou que “a aeronave do voo G3 1979, entre Porto Alegre e Salvador, deste sábado (24), apresentou problemas técnicos e, por consequência, o voo foi cancelado”.
Ainda de acordo com o comunicado, os passageiros afetados foram reacomodados em outros voos da companhia, “com possibilidades de partida hoje [sábado] e amanhã [este domingo]”.
A empresa também informou que criou um voo extra em razão do cancelamento, com partida prevista para a 1h deste domingo, de Porto Alegre para Salvador.
“A Gol reforça que todas as ações tomadas para esse voo tiveram como foco a segurança, nosso valor número 1”, justificou a companhia.
A Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (Anac) também se manifestou sobre o caso e confirmou o cancelamento do voo G3 1979. O órgão informou que, em razão do segundo turno das eleições, reforçou a atenção a atrasos e cancelamentos, mas que “não há anormalidades no fluxo aéreo brasileiro”.
A lot is riding on the shoulders of Kabir Nath, the CEO of Compass Pathways.
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Compass Pathways wants to use psilocybin to help people with treatment-resistant depression.
Its psilocybin pill, COMP360, could finally be coming to market as soon as next year.
For its CEO, Kabir Nath, it's been a long, strange trip to get to this point.
In 2022, Kabir Nath had a cushy executive job at a pharmaceutical firm that developed anti-psychotic medication.
Then he got a call from a scrappy upstart with a patent on a synthetic version of psilocybin — the active ingredient in magic mushrooms. It hoped to use the compound to help those with treatment-resistant depression.
They wanted him to join as CEO. Nath, whose father died by suicide, bit on their second pitch.
"A number of people have said to me in the last couple of years: 'You do realize what a risk that was,'" Nath told Business Insider about eventually jumping ship for what was, and still is, a drug company without FDA approval for its product.
"I was probably the first really senior executive from traditional pharma to make the move to psychedelics," he added. "But, you know, it was the right thing to do."
Nath's personal risk is now magnified as Compass Pathways finishes filing its final forms ahead of what could be FDA approval as soon as next year, and then a public rollout of its psilocybin pill, called COMP360.
Compass has recently added 150 new hires to its payroll, expanded its marketing division, and moved into new office space in Jersey City in the hope it all works out. "The company is growing rapidly," Nath said.
Though a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson attained FDA approval with a version of ketamine for depression patients in 2019, it is by no means guaranteed that Compass, leveraging a more traditional psychedelic, will get the same approval.
Should the FDA deny Compass' bid, investors would rush to dump their shares, likely sending the company into bankruptcy. The Jersey City office, which just received a new lime green paint job, would be untenable.
If you ask Nath, it would also be bad news for 4 million patients with depression in the US, for whom more traditional antidepressants like SSRIs don't work.
"These are people who have been suffering from depression, and nothing's really working," he said.
Like other drug companies — especially those with a single product — Compass' stock has "been on quite the adventure," Nath said, as the company progressed through various human trials.
When markets closed on Friday, the share price hovered around $11, up $5 from last year. In 2020, when the company went public, shares went for $17.
From Haight Ashbury to Wall Street
Psilocybin's journey to the FDA has been a long and winding one.
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Psilocybin's journey to the forefront of medical research didn't begin with Compass, and it hasn't exactly gone in a straight line.
Few did more to publicize the drug than Timothy Leary, the Harvard professor turned acid dropout. In a speech at Harvard's Cambridge campus in 1962, he told students that taking psilocybin allows people to experience an "internal rebirth," according to the Harvard Crimson.
In time, Leary would be fired from Harvard as he, along with a measurable portion of the US population, began to experiment more heavily with psychedelic drugs. Come 1966, the Grateful Dead were spiking their Kool-Aid with acid, and a definitive subculture of long-haired, psychedelic-taking hippies had emerged.
Meanwhile, researchers were experimenting too. Studies involving LSD and psilocybin flourished during the 1960s before hitting a brick wall in 1970, when psilocybin was classified as a Schedule I substance, rendering possession illegal, even for research purposes.
Work on the drug languished for years, until 2000, when the FDA gave scientists at Johns Hopkins University permission to conduct research on psilocybin.
And more recently, psychedelics have become trendy with the tech crowd.
From Burning Man to luxury retreats, experimenting with psychedelics is now common among tech founders and executives like Elon Musk and Sam Altman, who credit the drugs with quieting their nerves, boosting productivity, and allowing them to better harness their creativity.
Research, too, has flourished.
"There was actually a biotech boom from 2018 through to about 2022," Nath said. "In that boom, literally hundreds of psychedelic companies went public."
In 2018, Compass' proprietary psilocybin formulation received breakthrough therapy designation from the FDA. A few years later, it started testing the drug on people.
Nath was an executive in 2018 at Japanese pharmaceutical giant Otsuka, where he said he assembled a team to investigate whether psychedelics could become viable medicines after reading Michael Pollan's book "How to Change Your Mind," which explores the history and therapeutic potential of psychedelics.
COMP360
Compass isn't selling an experience analogous to a spiritual awakening at Burning Man, though.
The drug-taking process for a patient enrolled in one of Compass' trials is a bit different. First, a patient has to have treatment-resistant depression, which is clinically defined as depression that two or more standard drugs have failed to treat.
Then, a clinician explains the details of the process that is about to unfold. After that, they're given the psilocybin in pill form.
Kabir Nath at the company's new office in Jersey City.
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"It's a quiet room with a couch," Nath said. "They're offered a blindfold, which most patients do actually wear."
As the patient begins to trip, a playlist of music, including classical and new age, plays softly in the background. The clinician, who Nath said could be a nurse, doctor, or therapist, sits silently in the room if the patient wants to talk, and for safety reasons.
Most of the time, though, there isn't any talking.
"This is not psychotherapy," Nath said. "We are not directing the patient's experience."
Six hours later, after some crying, laughing, and everything in between, the patient goes home.
In Compass's most recent trial, results for which were published in September, just under half of participants who took the drug experienced at least a 50% reduction in depressive symptoms within six weeks of treatment.
Next steps
After a decade of slogging through tests, first on animals and then on humans, Compass has completed all the necessary prerequisites and is busily working to get its last papers in order.
In a statement provided to Business Insider, an FDA spokesperson was noncommittal, though.
"The FDA evaluates experimental medications, including psychedelic drugs like psilocybin, through a rigorous, evidence-based process designed to ensure that any approved treatment is safe and effective for the indicated use," the spokesperson said.
Compass isn't the only psychedelic drug company wading through the lengthy process of trialing a drug.
AtaiBeckley, another psychedelic drug company trading on the Nasdaq whose product is not yet approved by the FDA, is developing a version of DMT administered via nasal spray. It received breakthrough status in 2025, years behind Compass.
For Compass, though, it could face the music as soon as the first half of next year, when it expects the FDA to render its decision. The company is already getting ready.
In addition to adding 150 new hires, Nath said the company is preparing its sales force to go online and is in frequent communication with doctors and healthcare providers about operating in clinics where therapists can administer the drug to patients.
"This has the potential to be radically different, and again, the rapidity is something that they're very excited about, and the durability," Nath said, referring to psychiatrists.
O Farense recebeu o Penafiel no Estádio de São Luís, na capital algarvia, e sofreu uma derrota pesada, de 1-4, naquela que foi a 8.ª jornada da II Liga.
Os “leões de Faro” entraram mal no jogo de ontem, dia 24 de outubro, sofrendo um golo logo ao minuto quatro, por Ricardo Schutte, sendo que bastaram sete minutos para que o mesmo jogador dilatasse a vantagem, ao minuto 11′.
Ainda a recuperar do segundo golo, o Farense voltou a sofrer, três minutos depois, por Juanda, que fixou o 0-3 ao intervalo.
No segundo tempo, André Candeias fez sorrir a equipa algarvia, aos 65 minutos, mas o resultado final, 1-4, ficou selado ao minuto 87′ por Clau Mendes, contra um Farense reduzido a 10 após expulsão de Joseph Nduquidi (78′).
O Farense segue no 5.º lugar, com 14 pontos, e vai defrontar o Lusitânia no dia 1 de novembro, às 15h30.
Students have the right to attend their neighborhood school, and many do. However, every year thousands of parents choose to apply to public schools in different neighborhoods or publicly funded charter or magnet schools throughout the city.
There are rarely enough spots to meet demand at the more desirable schools or specialty schools, ranging from arts and hospitality to college-prep programs and the sciences. To decide who gets to go where, DC instituted a lottery system.
Parents across the city often create spreadsheets to track programs and their child's odds of getting into a particular program, before entering a lottery, ranking schools in order of preference, and hoping for the best. Such an uncertain system makes planning difficult and sometimes leads to unpleasant surprises. That was the case with my son's foray into middle school.
I thought I had found the perfect middle school for my son
When my son entered his last year of elementary school, I thought I knew what his next steps would be. For years, I assumed that he would follow in his big sister's footsteps and attend an International Baccalaureate charter school starting in 6th grade.
The author said she expected that her son would go to the same school his older sister was at, but was upset when he was put on a waitlist.
Courtesy of Jamie Davis Smith
The charter school isn't perfect; no school is. However, my daughter, now a junior, often says she enjoys school, which is a shocking statement for a kid of any age, let alone a teenager. An environment where at least some kids are happy to go every day would be reason enough for me to send my son there. However, I was also convinced the school's rigorous program and strong emphasis on world cultures would be a perfect fit for him. After all, he is a triple citizen and a world traveler at heart. I also appreciate the school's diversity and range of classes, from sneaker culture to advanced sciences.
Although a spot for my son was never guaranteed, I assumed his sibling preference would help secure one. I was in for a rude awakening.
I had to face reality
When my son was put on the waitlist after the first round of admissions, I didn't panic. Instead, I spent most of the summer in denial, convinced that if I just waited long enough, he would get in eventually.
The week before school started, I had to face reality. No spots were available for my son at the school I had grown to love and was convinced would be perfect for him.
Without a viable alternative, I enrolled him in our local middle school, which I thought was very large and very chaotic. I kept telling my son how excited I was for him to start middle school, but I couldn't hide my worry.
I was nervous about sending him to a large school
My son's elementary school had about 400 kids total, from pre-K4 to 5th grade. For a big city, it's a small school where most teachers know all the kids, and the community is tight-knit. I worried about how my son would transition to a large school with nearly 1400 students across just three grades, in a building that occupies nearly an entire city block. Despite my worry, he walked in with confidence on his first day.
Not everything about such a big change was easy. My son got lost a few times trying to find his classes. While many of the other incoming sixth graders knew each other from elementary school, my son didn't know a soul. He was upset when recess, his favorite part of the day, was cut short because other kids wouldn't stop talking. It's almost impossible to get a timely email response from the school administration, who seem swamped by the sheer number of students. Still, my son rolled with the punches and started to adjust.
I now see the benefits of a neighborhood school
Even though my son had to start his middle school social life from scratch, he quickly found his crew: other kids who love soccer. He first spotted potential friends by looking for kids wearing Real Madrid jerseys and kicking a soccer ball around at recess. Once he found his tribe, he could easily meet friends after school for walks to our local playground and pizza shop. Those are things he wouldn't have been able to do if he had gotten into the school I had been hoping for, which draws students from across the city. Within a few weeks, he rattled off at least a dozen new friends' names. I wondered whether he could have made friends as easily at the smaller charter school I wanted him to go to, with a smaller pool of potential friends.
I also appreciate the resources such a big school has, including a range of after-school activities. Although my son hasn't wanted to try most of them, I appreciate that options like an archery team and a Rubik's Cube club are available to him.
There are other benefits as well. Because our neighborhood is just over a mile from our home, my son can easily walk or take a short bus ride there and back, giving him even more independence. Not having to drive him saves me at least seven hours a week, and the school's proximity to our house gives my son more free time.
Now that we are well into the school year, I realize I should have given my son more credit for adaptability. I also should have been more open-minded about what kind of school would be "right" for my son. Although I am still sad that he doesn't get to attend the same school as his sister, I now know there is more than one answer to what makes a good school.
O Sporting vai tentar manter hoje a desvantagem atual para o comandante da I Liga de futebol, quando receber o Académico de Viseu, em jogo da nona jornada da prova.
Depois de o FC Porto, campeão nacional e líder isolado do campeonato, com 27 pontos, ter vencido no sábado em Barcelos o Gil Vicente por 1-0, os ‘leões’, atuais terceiros, precisam de manter pelo menos a desvantagem com que partiram para a ronda, que se cifrava nos seis pontos, pelo que os três pontos são determinantes para se manterem na corrida ao título.
Do outro lado, apresenta-se um Académico de Viseu que regressou esta temporada à I Liga e que se encontra a fazer um campeonato acima da média, ocupando o sexto posto, com 14 pontos, e tendo já ‘arrancado’ um surpreendente empate em casa do Benfica, na ronda inaugural.
Além do embate de Alvalade, hoje, realizam-se ainda mais três jogos para a I Liga, com o Estoril Praia a receber o Moreirense, o Rio Ave o Famalicão e o Nacional o SC Braga.
Programa e resultados da nona jornada
– Sexta-feira, 23 out:
Vitória SC – Marítimo, 5-0
– Sábado, 24 out:
Estrela Amadora – Casa Pia, 0-2
Alverca – Arouca, 0-1
Gil Vicente – FC Porto, 0-1
– Domingo, 25 out:
Estoril Praia – Moreirense, 15:30
Rio Ave – Famalicão, 18:00
Nacional – SC Braga, 18:00
Sporting – Académico de Viseu, 20:30
– Segunda-feira, 26 out:
Santa Clara – Benfica, 17:45 locais (18:45, horas de Lisboa)
The king of ghosts lives in a haunted $4.3 million dollar mansion in the heart of New Orleans' French quarter. The dozens of paranormal tour guides who lead tourists through the neighborhood are sure to know of him and have an opinion of him. Lance Zaal is the most controversial man in America's booming ghost business, CEO of what competitors have dubbed "The Walmart of Ghost Tours."
Over the past half-decade, Zaal, 42, and his company, US Ghost Adventures, have opened ghost tours in more than 250 cities and towns, employing more than 1,000 guides, according to his company's website. He's also been buying up the country's haunted landmarks like it's the first trip around the Monopoly board — the Lizzie Borden House in Massachusetts, the Villisca Axe Murder House in Iowa, the McInteer Villa in Kansas, and two historic houses in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. "Lance has said he wants to build an empire, and that's what he's doing," says Diane Student, who hosts the industry podcast History Goes Bump.
USGA also sells ghost detection gear through the brand Ghost Daddy — products with names like the Sinister Speaker, Medusa's Net, and Devil's Marble MK2. An Ultimate Ghost Hunt Kit For Two sells for $629.99. The whole operation has made Zaal wealthy enough to buy the Lalaurie Mansion, his primary residence, which stands on the site of an infamous slaveowner's torture chamber. Previous guests have reported unexplained moaning and groaning inside, along with the sudden, putrid smell of burning flesh, and, according to New Orleans tour guide Catie Santos, passing guides stand on the opposite side of the street because of the house's dark energy. On tours, Santos, who was briefly employed by Zaal as a content creator, also warns her guests "about the real life Marvel supervillain living in that house," she says.
The Lizzie Borden House in Fall River, Massachusetts, one of many haunted houses Zaal has bought up across the country.
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In assembling his dominion of the undead, Zaal has made a host of enemies among the living. I spoke with more than a dozen competitors and insiders in the industry who described him as "vindictive," "predatory," a "bully," and a "hemorrhoid." He has been accused of borrowing content from local tours, ripping off merchandise designs, redirecting negative reviews to competitors, misclassifying workers as contractors, and using names similar to local companies to confuse tourists. The allegations have resulted in a mounting pile of lawsuits against USGA. Zaal, who did not respond to repeated inquiries for this story, has consistently denied any predatory behavior and emphasizes his commitment to historic preservation.
When passing Zaal's mansion, Catie Santos warns tourists of "the real life Marvel supervillain living in that house," she says.
He has gone after his rivals, filing copyright and defamation suits and frequently threatening legal action. "This gang of competitors are the bullies. So desperate to restore their monopolies or do whatever they can to eliminate their competition," USGA wrote in the comments section of "Exposing US Ghost Adventures Corrupt and Unethical Business Practices Part 1," a recent video from the YouTube channel The Paranormal Engineer.
When Walmart surged through the country in the 1980s, it sparked fierce resistance from the mom and pop stores threatened by their expansion. Today, the rise of the Walmart of Ghost Tours has ignited a war in the ghost industry.
In the biography published on his website — which has a slapdash, early-2000s blog design — Zaal describes a hardscrabble childhood in Southern California. After his parents divorced when he was 6, he was often homeless, sometimes sleeping in the family van. He was bullied in school, he writes, and threw himself into little entrepreneurship projects like a lemonade stand, where he bumped his margins by charging extra for a "Lemon Special," which involved adding a Lemonhead candy to the drink. He says his youth was also marked by eerie experiences — mysterious footsteps, doors opening and closing without explanation — that inspired a lifelong fascination with the supernatural. "I've experienced odd things I can't explain," he said in a recent interview with Business Insider.
In Zaal's personal website, he describes a childhood marked by eerie experiences — mysterious footsteps, doors opening and closing without explanation.
Website of Lance Zaal
After 9/11, Zaal enlisted in the Marine Corps at age 17. He completed three tours, including two in Iraq, where he was stationed for a time at President Saddam Hussein's palace. Then he got an MBA at William and Mary, and worked briefly at Booz Allen Hamilton and Mythics Inc., until he was laid off in 2012. He set out on his own, developing a GPS-guided audio ghost tour app called ItourMobile. It was good timing. America was in the midst of a ghost renaissance.
In a 1978 Gallup poll, 11% of Americans said they believed in ghosts. By 2025, that number soared to 39%. Some attribute the trend to a decline in traditional religion, with non-religious people becoming more inclined to seek other supernatural answers to life's big questions. And as paranormal beliefs have risen, there has been an influx of people trying to profit from them. Reality TV shows "Ghost Hunters" and "Ghost Adventures" took off in the 2000s. By 2023, "dark tourism" — which ranges from the sites of atrocities to haunted houses — was valued at $32 billion and projected to reach $39 billion by the decade's end, according to Grand View Research.
Years after US Ghost Adventures took off, an interviewer at Authority Magazine asked Zaal what advice he wished he could give his younger self. "You're on your own," Zaal said, in a quote displayed under a photo of him in a vest, arms crossed, blue-steeling the camera. "You have no friends. The market is God."
Ting Rappa, an EMT and firefighter who runs an Orlando-based ghost tour called American Ghost Adventures met Zaal in 2015, when he was managing a tour called Colonial Ghosts in Williamsburg, Virginia. Zaal approached Rappa after she attended one of his tours with a proposal to team up. "He was a little off," Rappa says. Something about his energy made her apprehensive. "But he was a very intelligent person. I could tell he had a drive." Zaal said he would help finance her company in exchange for a share of the operation. But the deal didn't seem like an even partnership, so she turned him down.
You're on your own. You have no friends. The market is God.Lance Zaal
Three years later, she discovered that Zaal had a new name for his company that resembled hers: US Ghost Adventures. When she tried to trademark American Ghost Adventures years later, the application was denied because Zaal had registered his first. In 2024, she filed a suit asking for the USGA trademark to be cancelled, still working its way through the courts. "There's just no ethics to it," she says of Zaal's expansion. "Competition is good, but play nice. Right now, you're just being a big bully."
In the Authority Magazine story, Zaal was asked how he researches whether someone else has already had one of his ideas, a question that would become more significant as his business continued to grow.
"It's not relevant," Zaal said. "Who cares who else thought of an idea? This is fear at first thinking. What matters is creating a sustainable, strong business. Just because there are others in your market, doesn't mean you can't succeed in it, or even redefine it. What is important is ensuring you don't break the law, whether that be a trademark, patent, or whatever."
A ghost tour is a pretty simple business to set up. Most are walking tours through public spaces that require little overhead. At USGA, guides are generally contractors paid a flat rate of $40 to $50 per tour, plus tips, per its website. With a tour drawing dozens of customers paying $20 to $40 for a ticket, the money can quickly pile up.
Tour guide Leanna Foglia during an "Original Fells Point Ghost Walk" tour by Baltimore Ghost Tours, a rival of Zaal's Baltimore Ghost Tour.
Elizabeth Frantz for BI
USGA wasn't the only company to pursue ghost tours on a national scale — the rival Ghost City Tours operates 60 tours — but it was the most aggressive. During the pandemic in 2020, as other tour companies were shuttering, Zaal expanded to dozens of cities and towns, ready to put guides on the pavement once restrictions were lifted. That year, he unsuccessfully sued to reverse a COVID ban on walking tours in Massachusetts. By 2021, USGA had operations in 33 cities, each under a local name.
One of the first cities targeted was Baltimore, where Melissa Rowell had operated Baltimore Ghost Tours since 2001. Zaal came on her radar when she began receiving phone calls from irate customers. "We are trying to find out where this ghost tour is," one man complained in a voicemail shared with Business Insider. "Nobody's answering the goddamn phone … after we spent almost $100."
The man was looking for Zaal's new local affiliate of USGA, which had begun operating under the name Baltimore Ghosts. Rowell sent Zaal a letter asking him to change the name to something more distinct. Soon after, Rowell says, USGA started using the name Baltimore Ghost Tour in some materials. "Instead of trying to cause less confusion, they seemed to be trying to cause more," she says.
Rowell and Zaal have since been in a cold war, volleying terse emails and cease-and-desist letters. "I understand you actively collaborate with a confederation of other companies to disparage and damage both the company and my personal reputation," Zaal wrote Rowell in 2024. "Let us honor the spirit of Halloween this season and cease this animosity. There's enough customers for all of us."
Amy Lynwander (left) and Melissa Rowell, co-owners of Baltimore Ghost Tours, another of Zaal's rivals. "Let us honor the spirit of Halloween this season and cease this animosity," Zaal wrote to Rowell in 2024.
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Rowell denies that she is part of a confederation, but local tour guides have collaborated in dealing with their ascendant rival. There's a private Facebook group where guides across the country share information about USGA. Mike Carter, a tour guide from Annapolis, Maryland, bought the domain name USAghostadventures.com to build a site that urged customers to choose local ghost tours instead of Zaal's outfit. (Zaal got the site taken down and sued Carter for defamation.) Some paranormal companies, like Central New York Ghost Hunters, have rejected partnerships with USGA out of solidarity with local guides.
In Austin, Texas, USGA was sued by the owners of a local Booze and Boos Tour after Zaal opened a Boos And Booze tour. In Savannah, Georgia, the national company Ghost City Tours, which operated a Dead of Night Tour, sued USGA for opening the Savannah Terrors Ultimate Dead of Night Haunted Ghost Tour. In Charlotte, North Carolina, the local Queen City Tours sued Zaal's Queen City Ghosts. USGA generally argues in court papers and public statements that the names are too generic to own. The Austin suit was settled in 2024; the latter two lawsuits are currently making their way through the courts.
USGA was sued by the owners of the Booze and Boos Tour after it opened a Boos And Booze tour; the Dead of Night Tour for opening the Savannah Terrors Ultimate Dead of Night Haunted Ghost Tour; and Queen City Tours for opening Queen City Ghosts.
In one instance, a guide alleges that Zaal uses these similar names to trick tourists into leaving negative reviews on his competitors' tours. Angela Taverniti, who runs Colonial Ghosts of Williamsburg, said a USGA customer, Samantha Butler, accidentally left a negative review on Taverniti's tour. When she pointed out the mixup, Butler pulled up the link she got from USGA asking her to review the tour and tested it. A screen recording Butler shared with Business Insider shows that when she submitted a four-star ranking, she was directed to the Google review page of the USGA tour she took. But when she submitted a two-star rating, she was directed to the Google page for Taverniti's tour. Spooky. Reviews are a big deal for tour operators. "98 percent of our business comes from Google," Taverniti tells me. "It's a game that you have to play constantly. And he knows how to play it."
Other paranormal guides say Zaal borrows the content of the tours along with the names. Laine Johnson, a former park ranger, spent the last decade developing a tour of the supernatural happenings in Durango, Colorado, drawing from firsthand accounts of locals, newspaper archives, and out-of-print books. When a new tour called Durango Ghosts set up shop there in early 2023, Johnson took it to check out the competition. She says she was startled that they followed her exact route and told the same stories, sometimes with the same phrasing.
Angela Taverniti, owner of Ghost Tour Williamsburg, claims that Zaal uses similar names to his competitors' tours to trick tourists into leaving negative reviews on their Google pages.
Elizabeth Frantz for BI
When she got home and did some research, she formulated a theory of what had happened. During the pandemic, she had uploaded her materials to a site called Junket, which allowed her to host virtual tours. Junket and Durango Ghosts were owned by Lance Zaal. Her content, she's convinced, had been snatched from the Junket website and co-opted by her new competitor.
USGA has meaningfully eaten into her bottom line, she says. "This is a really small town. It's ridiculous that there's now three ghost tours going here," she says.
By 2021, USGA purchased the crown jewel in its collection of haunted property, a three-story Greek Revival House in Fall River, Massachusetts, where Lizzie Borden was accused of axe-murdering her parents in 1892. It's famous for paranormal activity, and Zaal mentioned in an interview shortly after the purchase that he felt as if "someone, or something, was in the room with him," when he spent the night there alone.
This is a really small town. It's ridiculous that there's now three ghost tours going here.Laine Johnson, a ghost tour owner in Durango, Colorado
In 2023, a small cafe called Miss Lizzie's opened nearby, and Zaal sued, arguing that the name and logo — a blood-stained hatchet — infringed on his trademark. "She's a historical figure," cafe owner Joe Pereira counters. "I don't think anyone can own her." It was a strange reversal of the trademark suits that had been filed against him, and local competitors followed the case closely.
The next year, a judge sided with Pereira, saying the logos were substantially different. "Miss Lizzie's hatchet has a handle and smooth axe blade that spews blood," the judge wrote in his decision. "Ghost Adventures' hatchet is bereft of either handle or blood and features a notch halfway along the blade." But the lawsuit, which dragged on for years afterwards, has taken a financial toll on Pereira. Though a judge affirmed the initial ruling this month, Pereira was also ordered to pay $31,207 in legal fees after missing various filing deadlines.
Amid the acrimony, USGA has continued to grow. From 2019 to 2023, Zaal told Entrepreneur Magazine, USGA's revenue increased by 2,600%. To service the expansion, he contracted with writers and creators to develop tours and other content about new cities in the USGA empire.
Some guides, like Sabrina Velandry, a psychic medium who conducts tours for USGA in Salem, have had broadly positive experiences with the company. It's more professionalized than some of the local tours, she says. "It is corporate, but it's just really really well-run and organized." Others have butted heads with management, and two lawsuits have alleged misclassifying workers as independent contractors and failure to pay overtime wages. USGA has denied these claims, and one suit was settled while another is still in the courts.
In 2023, Ronald Murphy, a high school teacher outside of Pittsburgh, began picking up some extra work for USGA as an independent contractor, where he would crank out a new tour for $200, or make $40 for a 300 word blurb on the USGA website. All told, he says, he wrote tours for about 18 cities.
USGA sells ghost detection gear through the brand Ghost Daddy — products with names like the Sinister Speaker, Medusa's Net, and Devil's Marble MK2. An Ultimate Ghost Hunt Kit For Two sells for $629.99.
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He says he wasn't given time for deep research and didn't like the idea of using content posted by competing local tours, so for a tour about Fort Worth, Texas, he decided to get creative. "I was going to simply make up the ghosts," he says. He thought the local Cowboy Museum was the sort of place that a ghost might frequent and wrote this fiction for the website: "Of course, no cowboy can hold a candle to The Duke himself, Mr. John Wayne. Visit the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame where it's said the apparition of the 6 foot 4 actor has been seen admiring the cowboy memorabilia on display." The work eventually dried up. Today, USGA is recruiting an AI Creative Specialist, at $42,000 a year, "to draft, edit, and refine engaging tour scripts, website copy, and compelling marketing collateral." Even ghost jobs aren't safe from the AI revolution.
Trevor Foster didn't have much interest in ghost tours until he was ripped off, he tells me. He's a ceramics artist who specializes in dark pieces like bones, pistols, and mystical eyes. This January, he received a message informing him that USGA may have stolen one of his designs to sell on its Ghost Daddy website — an intricate skull-shaped mug with a handle like a curved bone. From initial casting to final glazing, it took Foster about about 100 hours to complete.
The skull on Ghost Daddy looked like one Foster designed in a slightly different color. Foster says the fact that it had the same sutures on the top — "almost like a fingerprint" — made it clear it was a ripoff. He also found that Zaal had recently purchased the same skull mug from him. "For someone to buy it and make a direct mold just seems kinda brazen," Foster says.
Foster sent a cease-and-desist letter, and Zaal responded that he planned to remove the item within six months. "My understanding in looking at your website is that you have your initials on the bottom (ours doesn't), each one is hand crafted and unique (ours are consistent and the same which is why yours looks better), ours is of a lighter color, and our logo is on the back," Zaal added. To Foster, it seemed Zaal was implying that replacing his initials with the USGA logo was enough to make the knockoff legal.
An Instagram video Foster posted went viral in the ghost tour community, and Zaal agreed in an email shared with Business Insider to discontinue the item immediately. He attributed the similar design to a mistake made by an overseas supplier who was given multiple examples to draw inspiration from. That wasn't good enough for Foster, who sued and settled with Zaal in September.
From 1978 to 2025, the share of Americans who said they believed in ghosts soared from 11% to 39%.
Elizabeth Frantz for BI
Foster was surprised to have found something of a community as a result of the whole debacle. After he'd posted about the situation, he was inundated with dozens of messages from people with their own grievances with US Ghost Adventures, commiserating with him. "It's just kind of incredible how many people they've angered," Foster says.
And — if you fall into the 39% of the country that believes in ghosts — you might believe that it isn't just corporeal beings that have been angered. This summer, a group of part-time ghost hunters visited Zaal's newly purchased McInteer Villa and set up K-2 meters, REM pods, and a ghost box.
But the group's leaders Dawn Lorenzen and Amy Osborn found the ghosts to be surprisingly uncommunicative. When they'd visited before Zaal's purchase, the ghost hunting had been good.
They Facetimed a medium to figure out what was going on. The ghosts were irritated, she told them, and it seemed to be related to the new ownership. "They made a circus of the place," the ghosts kept repeating, she said. "And now we are a spectacle."
O FC Porto venceu hoje no terreno do Gil Vicente por 1-0, com o golo decisivo a ser apontado por Borja Sainz, que premiou uma exibição de domínio, ainda que pouco inspirado.
Com a formação de Barcelos, que ficou reduzida a 10 jogadores, aos 81 minutos, por cartão vermelho direto mostrado a Marvin Elimbi, a mostrar uma postura mais resguardada, o golo do extremo espanhol, aos 63 minutos, materializou o domínio portista.
Com este resultado, os ‘dragões’ chegam a um pleno de nove vitórias no campeonato (27 pontos), que é já o melhor arranque do clube desde 1939/40, quando conseguiu um registo imaculado nas 13 rondas inaugurais.
O conjunto ‘azul e branco’ pressiona os rivais Benfica e Sporting, que completam o pódio e ainda não entraram em campo na jornada nove, ficando a oito e nove pontos de distância, provisoriamente.
Por sua vez, os barcelenses veem interrompido um ciclo de três vitórias seguidas, entre I Liga e Taça de Portugal, mantendo os 14 pontos, de momento na sétima posição.
Do lado gilista, Luís Pinto fez entrar Joelson e Walace França para os lugares de Gil Martins e Kaba, numa linha de continuidade em relação ao triunfo em Braga (2-1), da última ronda, na segunda-feira.
O campeão nacional apenas apresentou duas trocas face à derrota frente ao PSV Eindhoven (1-0), na terça-feira, para a Liga dos Campeões, com André Silva a render Samu e Borja Sainz a substituir Pietuszewski, após o polaco, que estava previsto iniciar, ter sentido um desconforto na coxa esquerda durante o aquecimento.
Logo ao sexto minuto, o perigo surgiu nos dois sentidos, primeiro na área portista, com Santi García a permitir o corte de Alberto Costa no momento decisivo e, no contra-ataque dos visitantes, o guarda-redes Lucão negou a Borja Sainz um golo praticamente certo.
Já em cima do intervalo, Jan Bednarek testou os melhores reflexos do guardião gilista, em cabeceamento na sequência de um pontapé de canto.
Na metade complementar, o FC Porto intensificou a sua pressão sobre a linha defensiva contrária e acabou por chegar à vantagem.
Aos 63 minutos, Froholdt cruzou pelo corredor direito para Samu, que não conseguiu captar a bola e viu-a sobrar para Sainz, que, ao segundo poste, recebeu com o peito e, sem deixar o esférico, atirou para o fundo das redes.
Após chegarem à vantagem, os líderes do campeonato permitiram ao Gil Vicente uma boa ocasião de golo, aos 80 minutos, quando Murilo obrigou Diogo Costa a uma intervenção muito apertada, a partir de um remate de meia-distância.
Logo a seguir, Elimbi foi expulso, de forma direta, num lance em que entrou de forma perigosa sobre Pepê, quando este lhe escapou em velocidade e ganhava uma posição muito vantajosa rumo à baliza.
Com a vantagem numérica, o FC Porto teve facilidades em ‘congelar’ a vantagem mínima até final e impôs um fim à sequência de duas derrotas consecutivas, ambas na Liga dos Campeões, a pior desde que Francesco Farioli assumiu o comando técnico.
Ficha de Jogo
Jogo realizado no Estádio Cidade de Barcelos, em Barcelos.
Gil Vicente – FC Porto, 0-1.
Ao intervalo: 0-0.
Marcador
0-1, Borja Sainz, 63 minutos.
Equipas
– Gil Vicente: Lucão, Ricardo Esgaio, Jonathan Buatu, Marvin Elimbi, David Moreira, Santi García (Guilherme Gomes, 75), Andreas Lausen (Zé Carlos, 60), Diogo Prioste (Tidjany Touré, 75), Murilo Souza, Walace França (Mohamed Kaba, 60) e Joelson Fernandes (Gil Martins, 60).
(Suplentes: André Picornell, Samuel Portugal, José Silva, Antonio Espigares, Zé Carlos, Tidjany Touré, Guilherme Gomes, Gil Martins, Agustín Moreira, Gonçalo Maia, Mohamed Kaba e Martín Fernández).
Treinador: Luís Pinto.
– FC Porto: Diogo Costa, Alberto Costa, Jan Bednarek, Jakub Kiwior, Zaidu Sanusi, Pablo Rosario (Alan Varela, 72), Gabri Veiga (Hwang In-Beom, 46), Victor Froholdt, Pepê, André Silva (Samu, 59) e Borja Sainz (Santiago Gimenez, 72).
(Suplentes: Cláudio Ramos, Chris Smalling, Samu, Hwang In-Beom, Nehuén Pérez, Alan Varela, Santiago Gimenez, Gabriel Mec, Seko Fofana, Martim Fernandes e Francisco Moura).
Treinador: Francesco Farioli.
Árbitro: Luís Godinho (AF Évora).
Ação disciplinar: Cartão amarelo para Pablo Rosario (55). Cartão vermelho direto para Marvin Elimbi (81).
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