Giorgian de Arrascaeta was again decisive for Flamengo, this time, for the team to debut with a victory at the Club World Cup in the United States. This Monday (16), it was up to the midfielder to open the path of the red-black victory over Tunisia’s Spered, 2-0 at the Lincoln Financial Field Stadium in Philadelphia.
The Uruguayan shirt 10 scored the first goal of the Rio team in the competition in the first stage, just at 17 minutes. Team top scorer of the season, now with 13 goals and six assists, the Uruguayan started and finished the move. First, he munked Varela on the right, and then positioned herself to receive from Luiz Araújo and plumb the ball to Ben Said’s goal.
The bid reflected the wide mastery of Philip Louis’s commanders in the initial 45 minutes, although the pressure, with 10 men in the offensive field most of the time, was not enough for a more elastic score.
Gávea’s formation had 69% of ball possession until the break, with seven submissions against only one of the opponent, but wasted his main chances of expanding with Ortiz and Gerson – in need of Russian Zenit, shirt 8 was booed by fans when he had his name announced in the lineup.
After the break, Flamengo could not repeat the same posture, giving more space to the Tunisiana team, who began to run the ball more in their offensive field.
When the match was starting to be dangerous to the Brazilian team, but Luiz Araújo scored a beautiful goal, with a finish placed 25 minutes. It was what the Rio team needed to resume the reins of the confrontation and maintain the important victory without conceding goals.
Earlier, also by Group D, Chelsea debuted with a victory over Los Angeles FC for the same score. Flamengo appears first in the classification because it took fewer yellow cards, one, against three noted to the English team.
Next Friday (20), leader and vice-leader of the key will face each other at 15h (from Brasilia) in another confrontation in Philadelphia.
