3-1: Flamengo easily defeated Talleres

Ang flamingorunner-up of Libertadores Cup of 2021, won this Tuesday 3-1 at Workshops in Cordoba Argentinian at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro and alone took first place in Group H of the tournament.

In a match on the second day of the group stage, Brazil’s most popular club easily defeated an Argentine debutant with two goals from Éverton Ribeiro and a penalty from Gabriel Barbosa ‘Gabigol’, while Talleres reduced the finish of the first half by Héctor Fértoli, who took advantage of a mistake by the local defense.

Flamengo had six points from two games. The first won 0-2 against Sporting Crital last week in Lima. It surpassed Chileans from Catholic University and Talleres, with the same 3 points, in the classification.

With an improvised defense led by David Luiz and Filipe Luis, the team led by Portuguese Paulo Sousa started with defensive problems and let the Argentine team take the initiative in the first few minutes.

But newly signed goalkeeper Santos, in his first game as a Flamengo player, took on the responsibility of guaranteeing the team’s peace of mind at the back. The Rio de Janeiro team needed six minutes to react and control the match, mainly guided by Uruguayan creative Giorgian de Arrascaeta, the match’s best player.

A foul on De Arrascaeta resulted in a penalty scored by ‘Gabigol’ in the 10th minute. It was the striker’s eleventh goal of the season and number 23 for the Libertadores, making him the club’s top scorer in the tournament.

Flamengo used the advantage to pressurize but were only able to extend after 25 minutes when Éverton Ribeiro took advantage of an assist from Bruno Henrique.

A mistake on Flamengo’s questionable defense in the last minute of the first half allowed Fértoli to discount after Federico Girotti’s play, which helped him to his heels.

In the second half, as well as in the first period, Talleres started the press to try to surprise the Maracana and fellow Portuguese coach Pedro Caixinha oxygenated the attack with entering strikers Veloes and Michael Santos. .

His audacity again cost him dearly because in the 14th minute Éverton Ribero, again assisted by Bruno Henrique, scored the third. Goalkeeper Guido Herrera prevented Flamengo from increasing the score by saving shots from Andrea Pereira and Arrascaeta.

With the wide lead, Flamengo started to play more calmly and took more and more risk, but Sousa decided to rest his two attackers and sent Pedro and Marinho into the game to replace Gobigol and Bruno Henrique.

The young Pedro took the opportunity to once again show his dexterity but Herrera prevented him from increasing the score, but he did not prevent the party of 42,915 Flamengo fans from attending the Maracana today.