Star of the night, Corinthians striker ends long Brasileirão drought | OneFootball

On Thursday night (23), Corinthians hosted Remo at Neo Química Arena in a match valid for the 19th round of the 2026 Brazilian Championship and won 3-0. Timão’s goals came in the first half and were scored by forwards Yuri Alberto (twice) and Kaio César. With the result, Timão moved up to seventh place with 27 points — seven wins, six draws, and six losses — with 21 goals scored and seven conceded.

Yuri Alberto, in fact, scored again for Corinthians in the national competition after four months. Until then, his first and only goal in this edition of the Brasileirão had come on March 22, in a 1-1 draw against Flamengo in Itaquera, in the eighth round of the tournament. On that occasion, he found the net after receiving a cross from Matheus Bidu from the left.

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On this night, against the team from Pará, he found the net in the 26th and 45th minutes of the first half. The first goal came after a through ball behind the defense from defensive midfielder André Luiz. Wearing the No. 9 shirt, he controlled it and finished with his left foot. The second, meanwhile, came in stoppage time of the opening half, when Zakaria Labyad set it up for the No. 9 inside the box to strike firmly.

It is worth noting that Yuri Alberto is Corinthians’ top scorer this season with eight goals in 31 matches. Four of them have come under Fernando Diniz, who was hired in the first week of April after Dorival Júnior’s departure. The first came in the opening match of the Libertadores group stage, away against Platense-ARG, while the other came in the match against Barra-SC in the Copa do Brasil.

The striker joined Corinthians in mid-2022, initially on loan from Zenit of Russia. At the start of 2023, he was signed permanently in a deal involving five players — Ivan, Robert Renan, Du Queiroz, Gustavo Mantuan, and Pedrinho. Since then, he has recorded 82 goals and 23 assists in 238 matches (204 as a starter), with 106 wins, 62 draws, and 70 losses — a 53.2% success rate.

He is the all-time top scorer at Neo Química Arena, inaugurated in 2014, with 51 goals. In addition, Yuri Alberto is also the team’s leading scorer in the 21st century. In 2024, he enjoyed the most prolific season of his career, scoring 31 goals — 15 of them in the Brasileirão, where he was the competition’s top scorer and crucial in the team’s surge (from the relegation zone to the Libertadores qualifying stage).

Last year, he played a decisive role in the team’s Campeonato Paulista (2025) and Copa do Brasil (2025) titles, against Palmeiras and Flamengo respectively, scoring in both finals. At the start of 2026, he also got on the scoresheet against Flamengo in the Supercopa do Brasil.

With Yuri Alberto, Corinthians now prepares for its next commitment of the 2026 season. On Sunday (26), at 4 p.m. (Brasília time), Timão faces Bahia at Fonte Nova in a match valid for the 20th round of the Brazilian Championship.

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