Erick Pulgar leads the list of Flamengo players with the most cards in the 2024 season

The Peñarol (URU) team was excited from the beginning of the trip to Rio de Janeiro, where they will face Flamengo, in the quarter-finals of the Libertadores. In addition to cheering the players on the flight towards the 'Marvelous City', the Uruguayans posted a montage of Christ the Redeemer with the club's flag.

As soon as they landed on Rio de Janeiro soil, the Uruguayan club published an image of a of the city's main tourist attractions. In addition to the photo, the team wrote the following message: “Peñarol em Rio”, alluding to Rock In Rio. Afterwards, a video showing the arrival of the athletes at Galeão Airport was also published.

Peñarol reached the quarterfinals of the Libertadores after beating The Strongest (BOL) in the round of 16. In the first game, the Uruguayan team defeated their opponent 4-0. On the way back, the Bolivian team even won by a score of 1-0, however, it was not enough to take away the classification of Diego Aguirre's men.

Before the game against Flamengo, Peñarol played in the Championship Uruguayan. On Saturday (14), Rubro-Negro's opponent beat Rampla (URU), by a score of 4 to 0. Given this situation, they remained undefeated in the national tournament.

Flamengo is coming off a bitter draw with Vasco on Sunday (15), however, they will have reinforcements for this Thursday's duel (19). Recovered from a thigh injury, De La Cruz is back in the team. In addition to the Uruguayan, Alex Sandro, Alcaraz and Gonzalo Plata were registered in the competition and, as a result, will be included in the clash.

Last Tuesday, the candidate for re-election for mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, denied the journalist Ancelmo Gois, from Globo. In a post on Instagram, the mayor informed that the city hall will be responsible for removing the megastructure on the gas meter site, different from what was reported. Furthermore, he guaranteed that Flamengo will have its new stadium, with the best conditions and security.

The news published by Ancelmo informs that Flamengo would have to pay R$100 million to remove a large gas structure present on land acquired by the club, which is owned by CEG and CEG-Rio, which are companies that are part of the gas concessionaire Naturgy.

According to the article, the companies were informed that Flamengo is the responsible for bearing the expenses, as provided for in one of the annexes to the land purchase and transfer contract. The clause, however, does not have a specified limit.

Paes stated that the values ​​for the transfer of the structure are different from what was pointed out in the article by Ancelmo Gois. Furthermore, it exempted Flamengo from any responsibility, and that the city hall has been planning to remove it for years.

“They are making me defend @flamengo more than I would like: let it be clear that this is not the The cost of this transfer and when it happens will be the responsibility of the city of Rio, which knows that this structure cannot be in an area that is already receiving so many residential buildings. It's been in our plans for a long time! Flamengo will have its new stadium there in the gasometer with all the quality and safety that the region demands and deserves. Period!”, published the mayor.

Allan has not yet managed to win over Flamengo fans and criticism is frequent. The numbers show the basis for this, as the midfielder has difficulty being combative and does not seem to add much to Tite's team when he enters the field. Just to give you an idea, Luiz Araújo, who is an attacking player, has made more tackles than his teammate in the last seven games of each.

Allan comes in frequently, and has been on the field in seven of the last ten Flamengo games. During this period, he played 338 minutes, but only made four tackles. In other words, he needs 84.5 minutes to make a tackle. Despite the average, there were only two games managing to make tackles. Three happened in one match, while one tackle was left for another game in that count.

In the last seven games for Flamengo, Luiz Araújo appears to be a good player comparison parameter. The athlete plays wide on the sides, but despite being part of the offensive sector, he helped the team with 27 tackles in his last seven games for the club. The average number of tackles is overwhelming.

There are 3.8 tackles by Luiz Araújo per game, a sum much higher than that of defensive midfielder Allan, who had an average of 0.5 tackles per game. The disparity is impressive, but more due to the positioning of the players.

It's not just in terms of seven games that Luiz Araújo is superior. In the Brasileirão, the striker also has a better average than the midfielder. There are 1.6 tackles per game. Allan, in turn, makes a tackle 1.2 times per game. Luiz's number of matches is just a little higher.

In the competition, Luiz Araújo entered the field 22 times in the 24 rounds played by Flamengo. Allan also appears quite frequently, playing 19 games, just three less than the attacking player.

Passed over by the fans, Allan sees the Nation asking for Léo Ortiz to continue in his place. The defender played a few games in the position and was enchanted. Tite took a while, but he began to take the requests into consideration, and against Corinthians, he preferred to improvise the defender as a midfielder rather than putting Allan on the field. However, the player came on in the second half.