Flamengo stretch run to five with win over Bragantino
A 2-1 win over Bragantino on Sunday 20 September leaves Flamengo top on 60 points with +32 goal difference.
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Flamengo have won 5 in a row. The fifth arrived at home against Bragantino on Sunday 20 September, finishing 2-1, and it keeps the club first in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A table on 60 points from 28 matches.
The record reads 18 wins, 6 draws and 4 defeats, with 55 scored and 23 conceded. That is a goal difference of +32, the largest in the division. The form line is WWWWW.
What separates Flamengo from the chasing pack is balance. At home the side has 10 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss. Away it is nearly as strong: 8 wins, 4 draws, 3 defeats. Twelve matches left in the campaign, and no other club has paired that home record with that away record.
The table is not comfortable, though. Palmeiras sit second on 57 points, three behind, with a goal difference of +26. Paranaense are third on 49, then Fluminense on 48, Bahia on 46 and Cruzeiro on 45. Fourteen points cover the top six. In a league of this length, that is one bad fortnight from a reshuffle.
Up front, Pedro has 16 league goals for Flamengo, behind only Kevin Viveros of Paranaense on 18. Gabriel Barbosa of Santos has 11, Carlos Vinícius of Grêmio has 10 and Danilo dos Santos de Oliveira of Botafogo has 9.
The next fixture is away at Santos on Thursday 8 October, matchday 29. Before that, the league itself resumes on Friday 2 October, when São Paulo meet Santos in matchday 28.
Five straight wins is a run. It is not a title. Ask anyone who has watched this division hand back a lead in October.