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Corinthians was defeated by Flamengo at Neo Química Arena, in another match where the team took the field with several injuries, especially Memphis Depay and Rodrigo Garro. In a press conference, Dorival Júnior defended the physical preparation and attributed the problems to Brazilian football.

"We have been enduring entire matches. We had some injuries, like all teams are having. There's no way, over the course of a competition, to keep playing with the sequence that teams have been playing, you can't escape this context. An injury or another will happen. We had several injuries from traumas, from shocks, but most of the time a muscle injury will happen", the coach began.

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"The load is very high, we are left with a very reduced squad, you have been following the number of players we have lost. For this moment, it is very difficult to contextualize precisely because there are several players at the same time. In the situation, taking away our possibilities to improve the team throughout the matches. We regret this, but it is a fact that every year it has happened, with all the teams in Brazilian football. And Corinthians is no different", he concluded.

Even with the absences, Corinthians managed to press and even be better than Flamengo in the first half, but the missed chances ended up taking the game with 0 x 0 to the break. Dorival Júnior praised this performance and regretted the bad luck to open the score earlier.

"We created in the first half, we had volume, we had possession, except for the last eight, ten minutes, when we lost a little control, which is a normal and natural fact, against a team that has a very well defined pattern, very high level players, in which the exchanges even improve the whole context that was being presented", emphasized the commander.

"I think we played a match where we deserved to have had better luck, a better result. The first half was almost perfect, if we can put it that way. We didn't take advantage of the opportunities we had, otherwise we could have played a slightly different game in the second half. Our goal and Flamengo's goal shortly after practically neutralize this moment we had and the game becomes the same again", he stated.

Without Garro, Memphis Depay, Yuri Alberto and Carrillo, Corinthians travels to Porto Alegre to face Internacional in the middle of this week. The club needs to win to continue in the pursuit of staying in the upper group of the classification. The ball rolls at Beira-Rio, starting at 7:30 pm (Brasília time).

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