Flamengo defeated Cruzeiro 2-1 this Sunday and finished the thirteenth day of the Brazilian league as the only leaderwith three points ahead of Bahía and Botafogo, who share second place.
Encouraged by a packed Maracanã, Flamengo wasted no time in opening the scoring. He did it in the 16th minute through Pedrobut towards the end of the first half Matheus Pereira equalised for Cruzeiro.
Flamengo maintained dominance after the break, Fabrício Bruno scored a header in the 60th minute and the team of Adenor Leonardo Bachi ‘Tite’ knew how to resist the attempt of reaction of those directed by Fernando Seabra.
With that result, Flamengo was left alone in first placewith 27 points, while Cruzeiro fell to seventh place, with twenty.
Despite the victory, Flamengo suffered with the absence of five of its absolute starters who traveled to the United States to compete in the Copa América with their national teams.
They are the Uruguayans Giorgian De Arrascaeta, Nicolás De La Cruz, Guillermo Varela and Matías Viña, and the Chilean Erick Pulgar, although the latter must return to Rio de Janeiro in the coming days after the elimination of La Roja in the group stage.
Bahía, which reached the thirteenth round tied with Flamengo on 24 points, was dismasted during his visit to São Paulo directed by the Argentine Luis Zubeldía.
São Paulo won 3-1 with goals from Luciano, Ferreira and fellow Argentinian Jonathan Calleri, to reach 21 points that bring it closer to the first positions.
Bahia, which discounted through Gilbertostagnated at 24 points, the same as Botafogo, who this Saturday tied 1-1 on their visit to Vasco da Gama.
At the bottom of the table, Things are getting uglier for Fluminensewhich after winning the Copa Libertadores for the first time last year went into a tailspin, to the point that this week it dismissed coach Fernando Diniz, who had been at the club for two years.
This Sunday, Flu lost 1-0 against Gremio and was in last position, with only six points in thirteen games.
2024-07-01 02:13:13
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