Corinthians striker is 2nd top scorer in Brasileirão this decade | OneFootball

On the night of last Sunday (22), Corinthians hosted Flamengo at Neo Química Arena in a match valid for the eighth round of the 2026 Brazilian Championship and could only manage a 1-1 draw. The result left the Corinthians side in 11th place with 10 points — two wins, four draws, and two losses — seven goals scored and seven conceded, and now seven matches without a win this year.

Even though the result was not positive in terms of the standings, the match was special for forward Yuri Alberto, who, by scoring in the first half against the Rio side, became the second player with the most goals scored in the Brasileirão this decade, that is, since 2021. In total, he has scored 59 goals. The No. 9 surpassed Flamengo’s Pedro, who has 58, and now trails only Atlético-MG’s Hulk, who has 65 goals. Rounding out the top five are Luciano (São Paulo) and Germán Cano (Fluminense), with 52 and 49 goals, respectively.

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The survey was published by the R10 Score portal on X, formerly Twitter. Most of those goals came for Corinthians, the club he joined in July 2022. In the national competition, wearing the Corinthians shirt, he has 42 goals in 113 matches. For Internacional, in the Brasileirão, he scored 17 in 44 matches — five of those in the final stretch of 2020, a season that only ended in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Yuri Alberto scored for Corinthians in the 20th minute of the first half. On the play, Matheuzinho received the ball on the right and switched play to Breno Bidon. The No. 7, with a first-time touch, found Yuri Alberto, who laid it off to Memphis Depay and moved into position inside the box. The Dutchman, using the outside of his right foot, switched the play to the left for full-back Matheus Bidu, who sent in a first-time cross into the middle of the area, where the Corinthians striker was waiting and, with great opportunism, leveled the match.

The center-forward was signed by Corinthians in mid-2022, initially arriving on loan from Zenit of Russia. At the beginning of 2023, he was signed permanently in a deal involving five players. Since then, he has totaled 80 goals and 22 assists in 218 matches for Alvinegro (186 as a starter) — 96 wins, 57 draws, and 65 losses. He is the club’s top scorer of the century, as well as the leading scorer in the history of Neo Química Arena, inaugurated in 2014, with 50 goals in 111 matches at the venue.

In 2024, he was Brazil’s top scorer with 31 goals — 15 of them in the Brazilian Championship, where he finished as the competition’s leading scorer. That year, he was crucial in the team’s surge in the national competition (from the relegation zone to the Libertadores preliminary rounds). Last year and at the start of 2026, he played a decisive role in the club’s Campeonato Paulista, Copa do Brasil, and Supercopa titles, against Palmeiras, Vasco da Gama, and Flamengo, respectively, scoring in all three finals.

Corinthians’ top scorer in 2026 with four goals in 11 matches, Yuri Alberto scored his first goal in Itaquera this season. Previously, his last goal at the Arena had come on November 20, 2025, in the 3-1 win over São Paulo, in the Majestoso derby valid for the 34th round of the last edition of the Brazilian Championship.

Corinthians, amid the FIFA international break, will return to the pitch only next Wednesday (1). That is because Alvinegro will visit Fluminense at 9:30 p.m. (Brasília time) at Maracanã Stadium, for the ninth round of the 2026 Brazilian Championship.

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