ATTENTION! BOTAFOGO DRAWS FOR THE BRASILEIRÃO AND FLAMENGO CAN TAKE THE LEAD

After the tragic elimination of Flamengo in the Libertadores, against Peñarol, the journalist Renato Maurício Prado, wrote in his 'Uol' column, questions, for him, without answers, regarding the work of Tite and the Flamengo board in the current season.

Following in full:

1. How can a team that needs to win not shoot on goal? In two entire matches, against Peñarol (which spends less than 15% of Flamengo's salary on its football), there were only two shots towards the rival's goal.

2. How can a coach leave the club's most expensive signing, Carlos Alcaraz, on the bench, preferring to exchange Fabrício Bruno for David Luiz, as if that would make any difference?

3. How can a coach who calls himself a "chameleon", for "knowing how to play in different ways", attribute the resounding failure of his work to the injury of a center forward, Pedro, around whom the team's entire scheme was created?

4. How this scheme never worked, even with Pedro on the field, during most of the poor Libertadores campaign, with defeats to Bolívar. Palestinian and what not?

5. How could the work of a year, considered by many to be the best Brazilian coach in activity, been unable to produce even a draft team with the supposedly best squad in Brazil?

6. How did Carioquinha's impregnable defense become a sieve, Swiss cheese, even though it has admittedly good quality players?

7. How did De La Cruz and Arrascaeta start to play so badly? What's wrong with preparing both?

8. How do Rodolfo Landim and Marcos Braz still think they will win their respective elections with another year of collecting failures, like in 2023?

9. How can Flamengo believe that they will win the Copa do Brasil by continuing such poor work?

10. How has Tite not been fired yet?

Gerson regretted the elimination of Flamengo to Peñarol, this Thursday (26), in the quarter-finals of the Libertadores. The teams drew 0-0 in Uruguay — the Uruguayans had won the first game 1-0, at Maracanã. The midfielder spoke about Flamengo's anxiety in the search for a goal in tonight's game and assessed that the classification was lost in the first game. What did he say?

Anxiety about scoring a goal. We had a good first half, we accelerated the game in the second half, we got into his game. It's sad, difficult to talk about. Frustrated with the result, we lost classification on the first leg, at home.

Gerson, on ESPN

They played both series for one ball, they got it and it's their credit. That's what they planned. It's difficult to talk, it's sad, we wanted things. Now we have to raise our heads, we have Brazil and the Brazilian Cup ahead of us.

Léo Pereira

We are angry about the game we played at home, but after we scored the goal we started to accelerate a lot. We were very impatient and left something to be desired at home. Here we impose ourselves, I don't remember a clear chance for them. It's about apologizing to the fans, we still have the rest of the season, we have to work hard to win the title in the Copa do Brasil or the Brazilian Championship.

Fabrício Bruno

The team's next opponent Flamengo will be Athlético-PR, in a match valid for the Brazilian Championship. The duel is scheduled for 8pm, at Maracanã.

The first part of the 27th round of the Brazilian Championship ended this Saturday (21), with Fortaleza's 4-1 victory over Bahia, at Arena Castelão. With the result, the team from Ceará rose to second place in the table, while Bahia saw its chances of overtaking opponents being frustrated. Flamengo will play this Sunday (22), against Grêmio.

Fortaleza opened the scoring with Marinho, ex-Flamengo, but Bahia quickly drew with Everaldo. However, the Ceará team went ahead again in the first half, when Marinho scored again in the 37th minute, making it 2-1. In the second half, Pochettino increased the advantage, and Renato Kayzer completed the rout.

1st Botafogo – 56 points

2nd Fortaleza – 52

3rd Palmeiras – 50

4th Flamengo – 45

5th São Paulo – 44

6th Bahia – 42

7th Cruzeiro – 41

8th International – 38

9th Vasco – 35

10th Atlético-MG – 33

11th Youth – 32

12th Red Bull Bragantino – 31

13th Athletico-PR – 30

14th Grêmio – 28

15th Vitória – 28

16th Criciúma – 28

17th Corinthians – 28

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19º Cuiabá – 22

20º Atlético-GO – 18

At the opening of the round, Corinthians beat bottom team Atlético-GO 3-0, at the Neo Química Arena. At the same time, Vitória defeated Juventude 1-0 at Barradão, in Salvador.

Next, Botafogo beat Fluminense at Maracanã 1-0, with a goal in the final minutes of the second half , increasing its advantage over Flamengo. Finally, in the northeast classic, Fortaleza beat Bahia 4-1, at Arena Castelão.

This Sunday (22 ), six matches complete the 27th round of the Brasileirão. At 4pm (Brasília time), Vasco and Palmeiras face off at the Mané Garrincha Stadium, in Brasília, while Atlético-MG hosts Red Bull Bragantino in Belo Horizonte.

Later, at 6:30pm, four games will be played: Flamengo visits Grêmio in Porto Alegre, Criciúma and Athletico-PR play in Santa Catarina, Cuiabá and Cruzeiro face each other at Arena Pantanal, and São Paulo hosts Internacional at Morumbi.