Flamengo is upset and rooting for other teams
Maldonado explains that everyone is sad that qualification was not 'guaranteed' on Wednesday
By From the team at Flamengo's official website - in
Flamengo and Internacional were the protagonists in the battle for the 2009 Brazilian Championship title. Flamengo ended up winning the title, and this Thursday (April 22.04), the two teams are once again the main characters in Brazilian football, this time in the Libertadores. The Rio de Janeiro team has 10 points, in second place in Group 8, and needs Internacional to win its game to advance to the round of XNUMX of the competition. In addition, two other matches need to have favorable results for Flamengo.
Flamengo hopes for there to be no draw in the Colorado game, against a victory for Cerro, from Uruguay, by more than two goals against Emelec (EQU) and also against a triumph for Racing, also from Uruguay, by more than three goals against Cerro Porteño (PAR).
The situation may seem very complicated, but Flamengo, according to mathematician Tristão Garcia, isn't doing so badly. With a 62% chance of reaching the round of 99, Flamengo trails only Universitário (68%), who would enter second in their group, and Internacional (XNUMX%), who will enter first in their group if they win today.
According to Tristão, the other candidates for places in the round of 46 have the following chances of qualifying: Deportivo Quito - EQU (24%), Cerro - URU (1%) and Racing - URU (XNUMX%).
Despite Tristão Garcia's statistics, Flamengo's players are not comfortable with this support for other teams.
"I think we should have done our part yesterday. We did everything we could to make this happen, but unfortunately, we couldn't score any more goals. Now we'll wait. I can only say that I'm calm. I believe we still have a good chance and we'll be rooting for that. I hope the results help us, after all, the Libertadores is our biggest goal in 2010," said midfielder Maldonado.
Corinthians, São Paulo, Once Caldas (COL), Estudiantes (ARG), Alianza Lima (PER), Libertad (PAR), Nacional (URU), Banfield (ARG), Velez (ARG), Cruzeiro, University of Chile (CHI), as well as San Luis (MEX) and Guadalajara (MEX) have already qualified.
Flamengo hopes for there to be no draw in the Colorado game, against a victory for Cerro, from Uruguay, by more than two goals against Emelec (EQU) and also against a triumph for Racing, also from Uruguay, by more than three goals against Cerro Porteño (PAR).
The situation may seem very complicated, but Flamengo, according to mathematician Tristão Garcia, isn't doing so badly. With a 62% chance of reaching the round of 99, Flamengo trails only Universitário (68%), who would enter second in their group, and Internacional (XNUMX%), who will enter first in their group if they win today.
According to Tristão, the other candidates for places in the round of 46 have the following chances of qualifying: Deportivo Quito - EQU (24%), Cerro - URU (1%) and Racing - URU (XNUMX%).
Despite Tristão Garcia's statistics, Flamengo's players are not comfortable with this support for other teams.
"I think we should have done our part yesterday. We did everything we could to make this happen, but unfortunately, we couldn't score any more goals. Now we'll wait. I can only say that I'm calm. I believe we still have a good chance and we'll be rooting for that. I hope the results help us, after all, the Libertadores is our biggest goal in 2010," said midfielder Maldonado.
Corinthians, São Paulo, Once Caldas (COL), Estudiantes (ARG), Alianza Lima (PER), Libertad (PAR), Nacional (URU), Banfield (ARG), Velez (ARG), Cruzeiro, University of Chile (CHI), as well as San Luis (MEX) and Guadalajara (MEX) have already qualified.