2-1: Flamengo suffer, but Brazil lead

He Flamengo lost this Sunday Cruzeiro by 2-1 and ended the thirteenth day of the Brazilian league as the sole leader, with three points ahead of Bahía and Botafogo, who share second place. Encouraged by a packed Maracaná, it didn’t take long for ‘Fla’ to open the scoring. He did so in the 16th minute through Pedro Guilherme, but at the end of the first half Matheus Pereira equalized for Cruzeiro.

Flamengo maintained their dominance after the break, Fabrício Bruno scored with a header in the 60th minute and Adenor Leonardo Bachi ‘Tite’s team knew how to fight back from Fernando Seabra’s men. With this result, he remains alone in first position, with 27 points, while Cruzeiro falls to seventh place, with twenty.

Despite the victory, Flamengo suffered without five of its full-time starters who traveled to the United States to play in the Copa América with their national teams. These are the Uruguayans Giorgian De Arrascaeta, Nicolás De La Cruz, Guillermo Varela and Matías Viña, and the Chilean Erick Pulgar, although the latter should return to Rio de Janeiro in the coming days after the La Roja out of the group stage.

Bahía, who reached the thirteenth round tied with Flamengo on 24 points, were dismasted in their visit to São Paulo led by Argentine Luis Zubeldía. São Paulo won 3-1 with goals from Luciano, Ferreira and Argentine Jonathan Calleri, to reach 21 points which moves them closer to the first positions. Bahía, who scored through Gilberto, stops at 24, the same as Botafogo, who this Saturday drew 1-1 in their visit to Vasco da Gama.

Looks bad for Fluminense

At the bottom of the table, things are getting uglier for Fluminense, who after winning the Copa Libertadores for the first time last year went into a tailspin, to the point that this week coach Fernando Diniz was sacked, who He been at the club for two years. This Sunday, Flu lost 1-0 against Gremio and are in last place, with only six points from thirteen games.