The Flamengowith a four goals from striker Pedro, beat the Colombian this Wednesday with a humiliating 7-1 Sports Tolima and easily entered the quarterfinals of the Libertadores Cup soccer.
Pedro, the hero in the Maracana with four goals and Gabriel Barbosa ‘Gabigol’, the reserve Matheus França and an own goal by Julián Quiñones, who also scored the stoppage goal, decreed the triumph of the Brazilian Mengao and their passage to the rooms.
In the next phase, Fla, who won the first leg played in the Colombian city of Ibagué by 0-1, will meet fellow Brazilian Corinthians, who eliminated Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires.
The experienced Chilean midfielder Arturo Vidal was in the stands at the Maracana stadium, who arrived in Rio de Janeiro this Wednesday to finalize his contract with Flamengo and was besieged by journalists and fans of the Rio de Janeiro team.
Vidal was recorded by the television cameras celebrating the first goal, four minutes into the game, by attacker Pedro after a combination with the Uruguayan creative Giorgian De Arrascaeta.
Those trained by Dorival Júnior were not satisfied with the advantage and kept the pressure on the rival, which paved the way for the second goal after twenty minutes, again in a play by De Arrascaeta and Pedro, with the participation of Gabigol and a deflection erroneous in his own Quiñones porch.
Pedro scored four of Flamengo’s seven goals
In the second half, as in the beginning of the first, De Arrascaeta raised a cross, David Luiz finished off with a header and, again, Pedro appears to beat William Cuesta with the third of the night.
At 55 minutes, ten minutes into the final period, De Arrascaeta was once again the protagonist and left the ball as a layup for Gabigol to increase the score.
The Pijao team, led by coach Hernán Torres, scored the honorable goal at 62 minutes in a short corner kick in which the Chilean Rodrigo Ureña raised a cross and Quiñones, taking revenge for the own goal, beat the goalkeeper with a header Santos local.
The goal from Tolima “bullfighted” more the host team, who four minutes later, at 66, scored again with Pedro, who thus converted his third goal, this time in a previous play by the versatile Rodinei winger.
The half dozen came in the 72nd minute, when Matheus França, with only a few seconds left on the court, received a pass from Pedro and had no problem stoning Cuesta.
The rosary was completed in the 78th minute with a shot by Gabigol defended by Cuesta, but whose rebound was used by the inspired Pedro, who scored his fourth personal record and the seventh for the Rio team.
DATASHEET
7 – Flamingo: Saints; Rodinei, David Luiz, Leo Pereira (d.70, Rodrigo Caio), Filipe Luis (d.70, Ayrton Lucas); Thiago Maia (d.59, Willian Arao), Gomes, Éverton Ribeiro (d.60, Víctor Hugo), Giogian De Arrascaeta (d.71, Matheus França); Gabriel Barbosa ‘Gabigol’ and Pedro
Trainer: Dorival Junior
1 – Sports Tolima: William Slope; Jonathan Marulanda, Julian Quiñones, Jose Moya, Junior Hernandez (m.71, Yohandry Orozco); Brian Rovira, Rodrigo Urena, Luis Miranda (m.46, Jeison Angle), Daniel Catano (m.27, Christian Trujillo); Jeison Lucimí and Michael Rangel (m.46, Juan Fernando Caicedo)
Coach: Hernan Torres
Goals: 1-0, Pedro (m. 4); 2-0, Julián Quiñones (m. 26, own goal); 3-0, Pedro (m. 46); 4-0, Gabigol (m. 55); 4-1, Julián Quiñones (m. 62); 5-1, Pedro (m. 66); 6-1, Matheus France (d. 72); 7-1, Pedro (m. 88)
Referee: The Paraguayan Mariano Diaz of Vivar. He warned locals Leo Pereira and David Luiz against visitors Marulanda
Incidences: Second leg for the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores played before 56,190 spectators at the Maracaná stadium, in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. Flamengo advanced to the quarterfinals