Corinthians sink to sixth straight defeat against Fluminense
A 1-3 loss to Fluminense on Sunday 20 September leaves Corinthians on 32 points and a run of 6 defeats.
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Corinthians lost again. Fluminense left with a 1-3 win on Sunday 20 September, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A table now shows the club on 6L — 6 defeats in a row, the last five of them logged as LLLLL.
The numbers are not kind. 14th place, 32 points from 28 matches, 8 wins, 8 draws, 12 losses. 29 goals scored, 32 conceded, a goal difference of -3. The home record reads 5 wins, 4 draws and 7 defeats; away from home it is 3, 5 and 5.
Split the season in half and the shape changes. On their own ground Corinthians have been ordinary. On the road they have been worse. That is the whole story of a campaign that has drifted since the opening weeks, and no single result explains it.
What comes next is Corinthians, away, on Wednesday 7 October, in round 29. A trip to face a side above them in the table is not the fixture a club on 6 straight losses would choose.
For context, the division has separated. Flamengo lead on 60 points with a goal difference of +32, ahead of Palmeiras on 57 and Paranaense on 49. Fluminense, the team that took the points at Corinthians's expense, sit 4th on 48. At the other end, Corinthians are 14th, level on points with nobody in particular and looking down rather than up.
Can a squad with 12 defeats in 28 games find a response? The scoring charts offer no comfort either: Kevin Viveros of Paranaense has 18, Pedro of Flamengo has 16, and no Corinthians name appears anywhere near them.
Six losses. One clean sheet short of a crisis, or already there.