The sweep of Gabigol in a right-back position before 25 minutes was the exception in that first leg of the game in which Flamengo played at a trot for the tranquility of having gone out to play with a difference of three goals achieved in the first leg in Asunción last week (4-.1). That action, almost accidental, connected the powerful team from Rio de Janeiro, which completely liquidated the series with two fast and furious attacks that the fearsome 9 and the unstoppable Bruno Henrique defined with force. Thus, despite Recalde’s discount at the end of the first half, Mengao went to rest with the certainty that he already had the ticket to the semifinal in his pocket, which will play against the winner of Barcelona from Guayaquil and Fluminense.
The difference in technical quality and hierarchy between Fla and Olimpia, a club whose present is very far from its glorious past in the Libertadores (it won the Cup in 1979, 1990 and 2002), it’s abysmal. It had already been in evidence in Paraguay beyond the controversial penalty that the Argentine referee Rapallini sanctioned and last night it was repeated, more easily, in Brasilia, a city in which Flamengo decided to be local to increase the capacity of fans to 25% of the stadium capacity (in the Maracana they only enabled 10%.
Literally, the 5-1 triumph (9-2 on aggregate) was a formality for Renato Gaúcho’s team, which strengthened its status as a firm candidate for the title.
The summary of the first leg in Asunción
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