Opinion – Juca Kfouri: Flamengo turns on the high light

For now, Flamengo asks the five teams ahead of it to pass.

From the carriage floor, in a little while it will flash and force overtake.

The red-blacks say that Flamengo cannot be allowed to arrive and the unprecedented victory in Ressacada is a sign that Pedro’s team is coming.

There were five games with three defeats and two draws with Avaí in Florianópolis and right away, in the second half, the Santa Catarina team took the lead, although the Cariocas got tired of losing goals in the first 45 minutes.

With an impressive volume of play for the sunny Santa Catarina morning, two goals from Pedro turned the result and others were wasted by details: 2 to 1.

The distance to Palmeiras is still large, nine points, and alviverde has the consolation of being in only two competitions. But Flamengo has the squad with the most decisive players in the country and Dorival Júnior, with his discreet way of being since he was a competent midfielder, brought peace back to Gávea.

He did more, favored by the luck of Bruno Henrique’s misfortune, when making Pedro start alongside Gabigol.
By finishing the first round with more than one round of advantage over their competitors, Palmeiras, of course, remains the biggest favorite, which is nothing new, even if they are complicating apparently easy games.

That’s what happened in the last two victories, against América, in Belo Horizonte, when the Minas Gerais striker Juninho missed the best equalizing goal of the year and, at home, against Inter, when he played to score in the first half and suffered to win by 2 to 1 in the second, thanks mainly to goalkeeper Weverton.

It’s true that Palmeiras still doesn’t see Flamengo in their rearview mirror, because there are other suitors closer, like Corinthians, at four points, and Fluminense, at five.

The Rooster, having Cuca back, signals that he can go further on the one hand, because undeniably he is a good coach, and the lack of social responsibility and sensitivity on the other, for bringing back someone convicted of rape of a minor in Switzerland without never even apologized.

National complacency with such cowardice is exasperating.

Against Corinthians, Galo took a shocking turn when he took the lead and conceded two goals from Fábio Santos.
Cuca didn’t have the courage to be on the bench as would be normal for someone who knows the cast so well and now he will appear as the savior of the country.

Corinthians, on the other hand, is the biggest surprise of the championship and ends the shift much closer to Palmeiras, with whom they will play in the 22nd. round, in Itaquera, where Timão is also a beast. How was it in Mineirão?