Léo Pereira honest, São Paulo draw hurts Flamengo's Brasileirão hopes | OneFootball

Léo Pereira admitted he was happy to play at the Maracanã again

Flamengo disappointed the more than 70,000 fans present at the Maracanã on Sunday night (26). That is because the Rubro-Negro were held to a 1-1 draw with São Paulo in the 20th round of the Brazilian Championship. After the match, Léo Pereira, scorer of Flamengo’s goal in the clash, spoke about how much the result hurts the team in the Brasileirão.

What did Léo Pereira say?

In short, Léo Pereira acknowledged that the draw with São Paulo hurts Flamengo’s ambitions in the Brasileirão. Even so, the center back celebrated the goal he scored in the match, as well as the return of games at the Maracanã, alongside the Rubro-Negro Nation.

— It definitely hurts our ambitions in the competition a lot. From my point of view, we even played better. In the first half, I believe they were better at certain moments, but it definitely hurts our objectives. After all, those are two points we let slip here that would have brought us closer to the leader. But we have to keep working -, he said, before adding:

— There’s still a lot of the championship ahead of us, and we know we can catch the leader, of course not depending only on ourselves. I’m happy about the goal, happy to be back at the Maracanã. So, I’m happy about that, about the team’s commitment. I can’t say whether it was a penalty or not, the play happened very fast, and we leave it to the referee’s interpretation and for him to decide -, he concluded.

What is Flamengo’s next match?

Now, with Léo Pereira available, Flamengo turns the page to focus on its next opponent in the Brazilian Championship. That is because on Wednesday (29), the Most Beloved faces Internacional in the 21st round of the Brasileirão. The match takes place at 7:30 p.m. (Brasília time) at Beira-Rio.

It is worth noting that the broadcast of the Flamengo vs. Internacional match will be on Amazon Prime Video via streaming. On the other hand, Coluna do Fla will cover all the details of the clash through its website, social media, and YouTube channel.

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