Gabigol rues "frustrating" draw, sees positives for Cruzeiro

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·6 de octubre de 2025

Gabigol rues "frustrating" draw, sees positives for Cruzeiro

The forward Gabigol analyzed the 1-1 draw between Cruzeiro and Sport, this Sunday (5), for the 27th round of the Brazilian Championship Series A, at Mineirão. The author of the celestial goal, the number 9 classified the result as "frustrating", but made a point of defending the team's performance, highlighting the offensive volume and the circumstances of the match.

"Of course we were expecting the victory. If they said that we would score 4 points against Flamengo at the beginning of the year, you wouldn't believe it. We had setbacks against Santos, Sport, that's football. Now we have the same 3 points to win in the next round. Obviously we wanted the victory, but after all, 1 point, who knows it might help in the future."

Cruzeiro created several clear opportunities throughout the match, but stopped at the good defenses of the opposing goalkeeper and in failures in the conclusion. For Gabigol, the team's performance was superior to that of the opponent, despite the equal score.

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"It's hard to talk about a game where we were better, had the best chances and ended up making a mistake in their goal. We did well, we had the best chances, volume of play. Some misfortunes, players who entered and got injured, we had suspended players. But in the end, we did well. Hard to talk about a game where we had 5, 6 chances to score and didn't. Frustrating, but, in the future this point will make a difference."

Asked about the popular saying "who doesn't score, takes", the striker disagreed with the maxim, emphasizing that Raposa created enough to leave with the three points.

"I don't think so. We create 5, 6 chances... it's hard to create in football. I would be worried if we had made 1-1 on the ball that rebounds and is left over. But we had the best chances, we had control of the game. Then, in the end, it got difficult, we practically ended up with one less. We lacked refinement in the last pass, in the shot. And luck, their goalkeeper made very big saves, one from outside the area that was close to mine, Kaiki's in the last move. If we maintain this volume in all games, we will have more happy games than sad ones."

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.