Players haven't scored a goal with the ball rolling in two months
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Pedro and Gabigol are Flamengo's top scorers and continue to make history at the club, being Mais Querido's two top scorers in the league. However, the attackers are not having a great season and suffered a big drop in the Sofascore portal's ranking of conversions of clear chances in the Brasileirão.
Forward Pedro has the best efficiency for Flamengo in the competition. Rubro Negro's number 9 has a 50% success rate in 22 games, with 10 scoring opportunities and five goals. However, he remains very far from the leaders Jonathan Calleri, with 75% and Tiquinho Soares, with 93%.
Gabigol is having his worst season with Manto Sagrado and is only 12th on the list. Mais Querido's number 10 played 19 matches in this edition of the Brazilian Championship and had 16 clear chances to score, but only managed to convert five into goals. Therefore, Gabriel had the same number of hits as Pedro with more opportunities.
Being Flamengo's great scorers of the century and with a great history at the club, Gabigol and Pedro are unable to score at least one goal with the ball has been rolling since the clash against Grêmio, in the semi-final of the Copa do Brasil, on July 27th.
On that occasion, Gabriel scored the first goal in the 2-0 victory in the semi-final of the national tournament. Since then, Flamengo has played 17 matches and at least one of the attackers was on the field in all of them. However, they haven't been able to score with the ball rolling for almost two months.
Pedro is Mais Querido's top scorer this season, he has 28 goals and the last time he scored was from a penalty kick in the match against Bahia, on September 30th. The last goal with the ball rolling was in the 4-0 defeat of Aucas at Maracanã, on June 29th.
The teams play the first game of the quarterfinals at 7 p.m.
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Tite 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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Flamengo 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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