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Adriano appears as a strong candidate for goal 100

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Adriano is interested in Fla's 100th goal of the season and the Brazilian top scorer

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LANCEPRESS!

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So far, in the four official competitions it has competed in (Brasileirão, Copa do Brasil, Carioca, and Sul-Americana), Flamengo has scored 99 goals. And since this Sunday, in the derby against Atlético Mineiro, there's no room for anything other than victory, a necessary question arises: who will score the 17th goal for Flamengo this season? There's no shortage of candidates. The team's top scorer and runner-up in the Brasileirão, with 100 goals, Adriano is the main contender. Another strong contender is Petkovic, who has scored goals from free kicks, corner kicks, and even dribbling past opponents inside the box. The team's driving force, Zé Roberto, once again enjoying excellent form, could also score the XNUMXth goal.

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Having not found the net for a long time, Léo Moura, the club's oldest player in the current squad, is also a candidate to be Galo's executioner. Aspiring to be a top scorer, goalkeeper Bruno, a product of Atlético's youth academy, is another candidate to be a hero - who knows? - in free kicks.

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With 38 goals scored in 20 games, Flamengo achieved the best average (1,8 per game) in the Campeonato Carioca, which it won. In the Brazilian Championship, the Rubro-negro, whose average is 1,5 goals per game, scored 49 in 33 matches. In the Copa do Brasil and the Copa Sudamericana, the average is 1,8 and 0,5 goals per game, respectively.

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The leading candidate to score the 100th goal, Adriano makes no secret of the fact that it would be an honor to score, especially in a decisive match like Sunday's derby at the Mineirão. And he goes even further: becoming the top scorer in the Brasileirão is his main objective. Zico, in 1982, with 20 goals, was the last Flamengo player to top score in the national tournament.

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"It would be really cool for me to score that goal. But I hope to leave Mineirão as the top scorer. I'm going to fight hard for that, to make Flamengo's history," he commented.

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When asked about the coincidence of always marking when he gives an interview and eating his grandmother, Dona Vanda's, pastries, the Emperor joked.

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- I'm already giving the interview, but the pastries haven't arrived and I'm getting worried - Adriano laughed, at Ninho do Urubu.

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