Athletico plays well, but falters and wastes a golden chance against Flamengo

Later, Athletico played well, but missed out on victory over Flamengo at the Arena da Baixada.

The main attraction was the coach of the Brazilian team, the Italian Carlo Ancelotti, who received the Atleticana shirt from the hands of the club’s president and was even entitled to a nap during the match.

Not that the game left anything to be desired. Quite the opposite: it was well played by two teams that are among the best placed in the championship. Coach Odair Hellmann maintained the same structure as the team, which behaved appropriately as the home team, taking the initiative, putting pressure on Flamengo and opening the scoring with Mendoza, after a grotesque mistake by goalkeeper Rossi.

The Rio team tried to react, but ran into the good positioning of the Atletico team, who still created situations to extend the advantage, but without success. Viveros, always a striker feared by his opponents and who uses his privileged physical size in his runs towards the goal, had two great chances against Rossi and even hit the crossbar. El Tren needs to do more with its conclusions.

The game continued at a good pace, and Flamengo equalized with a play by Bruno Henrique, who played center forward Pedro to close the score.

It is regrettable that Furacão is wasting so many points inside the Arena da Baixada, as it has not demonstrated the technical strength to impose itself as a visitor in this extremely balanced championship with small differences in scoring.