Flaco: We must learn from 2025, not waste a trophyless year | OneFootball

Palmeiras finished the year 2025 without any new titles on the shelf. Despite the frustration, forward Flaco López wants to take lessons from the season into 2026. Individually, the Argentine was one of Verdão’s standouts and ended the year with 25 goals scored, making him the team’s top scorer.

“It’s a season that we can’t just throw away. It’s a season where we have to learn from our mistakes and try to make the most of the good things we did. It’s a season full of lessons, where the team changed almost 20 players. It’s not easy to create a good atmosphere and player chemistry with so much change,” he said in an exclusive interview with TV Gazeta during the recording of the Troféu Mesa Redonda.

“We have to value the season we had, accept that it wasn’t what we wanted. We have to be realistic, but not throw away all the work. We worked a lot, we came close. That’s football, and next year we’ll be there again, fighting for more titles for Palmeiras,” he continued.

Palmeiras finished the season with three runner-up finishes: one in the Paulista, to Corinthians, and others in the Brasileiro and Libertadores, both to Flamengo. In the Club World Cup, they advanced to the quarterfinals, where they were eliminated by Chelsea. In the Copa do Brasil, they fell in the round of 16 to Corinthians.

Flaco recalls Vitor Roque’s play in the Libertadores

Palmeiras lost to Flamengo 1-0 in the Libertadores final. Near the end of the match, which took place at Estadio Monumental U in Lima, Peru, Vitor Roque had a great chance to equalize, but saw the ball deflect off Danilo and go out. Flaco López recalled the play that could have changed the course of the game.

“At the moment, a lot of sadness, a chance like that doesn’t end in a goal. That’s football, it’s a matter of centimeters. We accept that it wasn’t what we wanted and that we have to give a little more the next time we reach a final. Learn from the things that didn’t go well. Keep the good things,” he concluded.

Flaco’s numbers for Palmeiras in 2025

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