Trust in the Empire of Love
Players praise the duo's decision-making power: "Up front, they'll solve things"
By From the team at Flamengo's official website - in
Adriano and Vagner Love, together, scored 57% of Flamengo's goals in the Campeonato Carioca. They scored 23 (12 from Love and 11 from Adriano) of the 40 goals scored by Flamengo. Therefore, the team's confidence in the Empire of Love remains high.
Full-back Leonardo Moura provided a beautiful assist for the number 9 to score the winning goal against América last Sunday. The number 2 crossed to the head of the Love Gunner, who made no mistake. The inspiration came 16 years ago.
"In the last game, I did a similar thing, I crossed, and Love ended up not making it. I even joked with him that he could have made the cross, and today he did. It reminded me a lot of Jorginho's cross for Romário, in the 1994 World Cup," he explained.
The task of players like Leo, who are responsible for creating offensive plays, according to him, becomes easier when you have a duo of the quality of Adriano and Vagner Love in attack.
"I'm happy to have Love and Adriano in attack, and to be able to give them assists, because they do the job up front," he added.
The goalscoring average is impressive. With both on the field, Flamengo lost only one match, against Universidad de Chile in the Libertadores. Adriano played 11 times this year and scored 12 goals. Love played 15 matches and scored 13 times.
Full-back Leonardo Moura provided a beautiful assist for the number 9 to score the winning goal against América last Sunday. The number 2 crossed to the head of the Love Gunner, who made no mistake. The inspiration came 16 years ago.
"In the last game, I did a similar thing, I crossed, and Love ended up not making it. I even joked with him that he could have made the cross, and today he did. It reminded me a lot of Jorginho's cross for Romário, in the 1994 World Cup," he explained.
The task of players like Leo, who are responsible for creating offensive plays, according to him, becomes easier when you have a duo of the quality of Adriano and Vagner Love in attack.
"I'm happy to have Love and Adriano in attack, and to be able to give them assists, because they do the job up front," he added.
The goalscoring average is impressive. With both on the field, Flamengo lost only one match, against Universidad de Chile in the Libertadores. Adriano played 11 times this year and scored 12 goals. Love played 15 matches and scored 13 times.