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To escape his worst year with the Flamengo shirt, Gabigol needs similar performance to striker Haaland
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Striker was revealed at the club in the interior of São Paulo
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0Luiz Araújo had his good run at Flamengo interrupted by a fractured cartilage in his right knee. In addition to his importance on the field, the striker plays a crucial role off it, helping Mirassol, a team from Série B in the Brasileirão. The number 7 raised the level of the São Paulo club, which today emerges as one of the favorites for access to Series A.
Revealed by Mirassol, Luiz Araújo transferred to São Paulo and, later, to Lille (FRA). With these negotiations, the club from the interior of São Paulo raised almost R$8 million. Part of this amount, around R$5.4 million, was used to build the Mirassol Training Center in 2018.
“What we received from the athlete's transfer to France gave us the opportunity to we started construction of the CT. It was a project and a dream that we managed to achieve with a modern CT that provided working conditions for our professional and grassroots athletes. One of our objectives was to be included in the competitions organized by the CBF so that we have a year-round calendar, which the CT helped us achieve” stated the president of Mirassol, Edson Antônio Ermenegildo.
In 2013, at the age of 17, Luiz Araújo left Mirassol to join São Paulo's youth teams. After standing out in the under-17 and under-20 teams, in addition to his time with the professional team, he was sold to Lille. The player also played for Atlanta United (USA) before wearing the Flamengo shirt.
With the support of Luiz Araújo, Mirassol reached another level. Currently, it occupies third place in Series B, with 43 points after 27 rounds. The São Paulo team is directly competing for a place in the G-4 with Sport and Vila Nova, fourth and fifth placed, both with 42 points.
The teams play the first game of the quarterfinals at 7 p.m.
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0Tite defined Flamengo and announced the 11 starters who will face Peñarol, this Thursday, at Maracanã, at 7pm. De la Cruz returns to the starting lineup in place of Léo Ortiz, and Alex Sandro and Plata were retained. The duel with the Uruguayans is the first between the teams in the quarter-finals of the Copa Conmebol Libertadores.
Alex Sandro and Plata, debutants in last Sunday's classic, remain in the team after having good performances in the draw against Vasco. Gabigol is now out of the relationship due to fibrosis in the posterior muscle of his right thigh. Flamengo, in a statement, reported that the athlete did not suffer any injury in the region. Check it out:
"The Clube de Regatas do Flamengo informs that the athlete Gabriel Barbosa underwent tests that did not diagnose an injury to the posterior muscle of his right thigh. However, the Technical Committee opted for precaution and did not list him for the duel against Peñarol due to fibrosis in the region. Gabi is handed over to physiotherapists and physical trainers for the series of decisive games of the season."
Match starts at 7pm this Thursday
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0Flamengo faces Peñarol (URU) in the first game of the CONMEBOL Libertadores quarter-finals and, here, you can watch the broadcast, live, with 2h30 of pre-game, interviews, the team's arrival at Maracanã and everything more.
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The number 99 has so far scored just four goals in 26 games
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0Life is not easy for one of Flamengo's players. In this sense, we are talking about the striker Gabigol, who will have to equal the goal average of Erling Haaland, from Manchester City, to avoid having his lowest scoring season for Flamengo in 2024.
The number 99 scored so far just four goals in 26 games. In the last year of his contract, the 28-year-old player accumulated poor performances, lost space in the team and was also involved in off-field controversies. Currently, he is the last option in the position for the coaching staff.
His worst record for the club so far is 20 goals scored, which he had in 2023. In previous years, he found the net 29 times ( 2022), 34 times (2021), 27 times (2020) and 43 times (2019). His highest scoring season was precisely the first, when the player was on loan to Fla from Inter Milan.
To surpass last year's number, he would need an average of more of one goal per game — 15 clashes to come. At this moment, Flamengo has 16 more games confirmed until the end of the season, but Gabigol is already out of this Thursday's clash (19) against Peñarol, in the quarterfinals of the Libertadores. He had a thigh problem in the derby against Vasco, but it was not listed even without a diagnosed injury.
This performance is close to that recorded by the phenomenon Haaland. The City striker has already found the net ten times in eight games at the start of the European season, averaging 1.25 goals per game. Counting the entire year 2024, the Norwegian has 33 goals in 35 games — an average of 0.94, which would make Gabigol score 19 more times by the end of December. Haaland's average throughout his career is 0.84.
Counting all the possible matches that the Rubro-negro could have in 2024 (eight more), the average for Gabigol to at least equal his worst score in Fla could "drop" to at least 0.69 — he would need 16 goals in this projection with 23 more games. If the team led by Tite advances to the final of the Copa do Brasil and Libertadores, there would be five more games (average of 0.8). If Fla wins the continental tournament, it could have up to three more if it gets a place in the FIFA Intercontinental Cup final.
Gabigol's numbers for Flamengo2019: 43 goals in 59 games (average of 0.73)
2020: 27 goals in 43 games (average of 0.63)
2021: 34 goals in 45 games ( average of 0.76)
2022: 29 goals in 63 games (average of 0.46)
2023: 20 goals in 58 games (average of 0.34)
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2024: 4 goals in 26 games so far (average 0.15)
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