Memphis and Yuri outshine GYM trio for Corinthians in 2025, stats show

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·29 December 2025

Memphis and Yuri outshine GYM trio for Corinthians in 2025, stats show

By Daniel Keppler / Central do Timão Editorial Team

A week ago, Corinthians ended the 2025 season by winning their fourth Copa do Brasil title, after a 2-1 victory over Vasco at Maracanã, in front of 67,000 fans. The decisive triumph was built, like many other games, with crucial contributions from two players: Yuri Alberto (who scored a goal and provided an assist) and Memphis (who scored the other goal for the black-and-white team in the match).

The duo, along with Rodrigo Garro, forms the so-called GYM trio, which was essential in the last quarter of 2024 for Corinthians' surge in the Brasileirão, taking the team from 18th to seventh place in the standings, securing a spot in this year's Copa do Brasil after their chances of qualifying for the tournament were just 0.004%. But how did the trio perform in 2025?

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To answer this question, Central do Timão gathered performance data of the three athletes in all 74 Corinthians matches of the year, confirming the People's Team's good performance with the trio, but also revealing other curiosities, such as the fact that both Yuri Alberto and Memphis had better personal numbers in the season when they played as a duo, without Garro as a companion.

Overall numbers of the trio

The player who appeared the most for Corinthians in 2025 was Yuri Alberto, with 58 matches (or 78% of the team's total), followed by Memphis with 51 games (69% of the total), and finally Garro, who struggled with injuries and off-field issues and only played 38 times in the year (51% of the total). These participations occurred in 71 of the 74 games of the team in the season – only on three occasions did no member of the trio take the field for the black-and-white team.

The playing time of the athletes also followed this same order. Yuri Alberto was on the field for 4184 minutes this year (72 minutes per game); Memphis, in turn, accumulated 3599 minutes (an average of 70 minutes); Garro, finally, defended the Timão for 2579 minutes in the season (68 minutes per match).

And on the field, the numbers were positive. Yuri and Memphis participated in 22 goals during the season, with the number 9 contributing 19 goals and three assists and the number 10 adding 12 goals and ten assists. The number 8 achieved nine goal participations in 2025, with two goals and seven assists. In total, therefore, the trio accumulated 53 participations, or a high average of 0.75 (three out of four games).

Garro: functional only in the trio

In a season where all three black-and-white attack players suffered from injuries, the number of times the coaches could count on the complete trio was limited. This happened only 23 times in the season, with very positive numbers for Timão and a particularity regarding Garro, specifically.

In these 23 matches, Corinthians achieved 13 victories, five draws, and five defeats. Some victories were remarkable, such as three of the four knockout matches of the Campeonato Paulista, the Derbys won by the black-and-white team in the Copa do Brasil, and the final sequence in the national tournament, culminating in the Corinthians title. As a negative point, the 3-0 defeat to Barcelona of Ecuador, a match that directly contributed to the team's early exit from the Copa Libertadores, still in February.

Corinthians scored 50 goals in these 23 duels, with 30 in favor and 20 against, boasting a 64% point yield. And the GYM trio was crucial for these numbers: Memphis had ten goal participations in these matches (five goals and five assists), Yuri Alberto obtained eight (seven goals and one assist), and Garro another eight (two goals and six assists), totaling 26 participations for the trio.

The Argentine's numbers are noteworthy, as these eight participations represent almost the entirety of Garro's production on the field during the season. In the other 15 times the number 8 played for Corinthians, he managed only one more assist to his season numbers.

Without Garro, the others played better

Although the GYM trio's numbers are positive for Corinthians in 2025, analyzing the individual performances of each athlete reveals that two of them have better numbers when playing without the other group member. This happened with Yuri and Memphis, who performed much better when they did not have Garro's company on the field.

The numbers 9 and 10 played together 19 times in the year for the black-and-white team, with the team achieving ten victories, three draws, and six defeats – a 58% yield, below that obtained by the complete trio. However, individually, the numbers of the attacking duo were much better in this configuration, with both totaling 11 goal participations, totaling 22. In total, Timão scored 29 goals in this segment, conceding another 25.

Memphis scored six goals and provided five assists in total, while Yuri Alberto scored nine goals and provided two assists. What truly shows the better performance, however, is the calculation of the minutes needed to participate in a goal. For the Dutchman, this index drops from 171 minutes when playing in a trio to 122 when playing only with Yuri (29% less). For the Brazilian, the reduction is even greater, from 226 to 126 minutes (44% less). No other variation of the trio on the field achieves such efficient numbers.

Other variations

Playing with the complete trio, Garro participated in a goal every 190 minutes, a better number than Yuri's, but worse than Memphis'. Playing as a duo with one or the other, however, the Argentine could not contribute to any Corinthians goal. The only assist he added beyond the eight participations with the complete trio occurred in a game where only the number 8 played: the 3-2 victory over Vasco, in August, in the Brasileirão.

It's also worth mentioning the numbers of the black-and-white team when only Yuri Alberto was available. After all, this segment is where the team achieved the best performance among all variations: 69%, after achieving eight victories, three draws, and only two defeats in 13 games. However, the number 9 contributed little to this performance, scoring only three of the team's 12 goals in this segment (the team also conceded six goals).

The least efficient variation, among the most repeated, was the one where only the duo Memphis and Garro were available. In the eight occasions this occurred in the season, Corinthians achieved only two victories, three draws, and three defeats (38% yield), scoring five goals and conceding six. Memphis' goal against São Bernardo, in the 2-0 victory in the Paulistão, was the only one with the duo's participation in this segment.

Best and worst months

The survey also analyzed the monthly performance variation of the trio. Adding the numbers of the three athletes, the most productive month was February, with 11 participations in total (six goals and five assists), followed by March and May, tied with eight participations each, followed by April and November, also tied but with six participations each.

For Memphis, February was also the best month, in which the Dutchman had five participations for the People's Team, followed by March and April, with four each. For Yuri Alberto, February ties with May as the best months, with the number 9 participating in five goals each month – November comes next, with three. Garro, with less productivity, only managed to participate in more than one goal in the months of March, August, and September – two in each month.

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