He Flamengochampion Brazilian and Copa Libertadores in 2019, conquered this Wednesday the Carioca Championship, the regional tournament that measures the clubs of Rio de Janeiro, after sumar two wins about him Fluminense in the final.
The most popular club in Brazil, which won 2-1 at Going match last Sunday in the traditional classic 'Fla-Flu', he won today 1-0 with a goal in reset time, in the return match also played at the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro, without an audience for the coronavirus, but in which sound effects were heard imitating a crowd.
With the new title as carioca champion –the second consecutive and the 36th in its history–, Flamengo adds four titles this year: the South American Cup, the Brazilian Super Cup, the Guanabara Cup and the Carioca Championship. The title of Rio de Janeiro champion is defined between the Guanabara Cup champion, which Flamengo conquered at the beginning of the year, and the Rio Cup champion, with which Fluminense stayed two weeks ago after the resumption of the tournament that was suspended more than 100 days due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The number of Flamengo titles since November last year and since his command was assumed by the Portuguese coach Jorge Jesus it rises to six, including the Brazilian Championship and the Copa Libertadores. The Portuguese was one of the main protagonists of this final Due to the expectation around if you will keep at Flamengo or if he will accept the proposal he received to return to his country and assume the Benfica command, what is expected to announce this Thursday.
Although he was better in the match and showed a more compact football that in his last commitments, the Flamengo only won with one goal annotated by the Juvenile Vitinho in the 49th minute. However, it was enough for Flamengo a draw to be crowned champion, for having won in the first leg.
The coach of the red and black club had to replace at the beginning of the second half the international winger Filipe Luis and Uruguayan midfielder Giorgian de Arrascaeta, who were bothered by the lack of rhythm. The Flamengo could not count either with his scorer Gabriel Barbosa, 'Gabigol', because He was sent off in the first leg. Despite this, the scorer of the Brazilian Championship and the Copa Libertadores last year also conquered the title of gunner of the Carioca Championship, with eight goals in ten games.
The two finals had to be played in a Maracanã without an audience as a measure of prevention against the advance of the coronavirus in Brazil, the second country in the world with more deaths (more than 75,000) and infected (almost two million) of the disease.