Midfielder Maldonado has renewed his contract and is now focused on Thursday's match (August 26.08) against Atlético Mineiro. Toró is also in the process of renewing his contract and will also be in the game. Coach Rogério Lourenço also has Correa, Willians, Fernando, Antônio, and Rômulo in his squad. In other words, the battle for midfield positions will be fierce.

Chilean Maldonado praised the fact that the squad has a variety of options and noted that this type of problem is actually a solution for the red-black manager.

"We have a lot of options. Now Rogério Lourenço has several players to change on the team. It's important to have everyone available to the coach, working every day. We have a long run of games and we'll need everyone. It will be good for Flamengo," he said.

Willians agrees. According to him, competition is healthy, and Flamengo has everything to gain from it.

"Now the competition is going to be good, right? We have a lot of players in that position, and that's important. The competition is healthy. We have a very high-quality squad, and we only have something to gain from that," he added.

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