Flamengo RJ beat Grêmio RS 3-1 in the Brasileirão - Série A at Estádio do Maracanã, taking the match away in the first half through Samuel Lino and two goals from Pedro. F. Amuzu scored for the visitors after the interval, but the home side were already out of reach.

Match Summary

Flamengo needed 20 minutes to break through. Samuel Lino put the hosts in front, and Pedro doubled the lead before the half-hour, J. Carrascal with the assist. From that point Grêmio were chasing a game that had been level only a short time earlier.

Flamengo did not sit on the two-goal lead before the break. Pedro scored again in first-half stoppage time, his second of the night, and the teams went in with the home side three clear. The opening period was decided in that concentrated spell, not by a long siege.

After the restart the question was whether Grêmio could respond. They did when F. Amuzu finished in the 69th minute. Flamengo still led by two and saw out the rest of a 3-1 win without conceding again.

Key Moments

The cluster of goals around the first-half hour mark was the real swing. Once Lino scored and Pedro followed inside eight minutes, Grêmio had to open up, and they never got the match back on even terms.

Pedro’s stoppage-time goal then removed the last simple path back. Two-goal leads can still be hunted. Three at the interval, with Grêmio still to score, let Flamengo play the second half on their terms.

Amuzu’s strike was Grêmio’s only success on the night. It got the visitors on the board after a difficult first half, but it came from too far behind to change who took the points.

Match Statistics

The numbers matched the story on the pitch. Flamengo held 55 percent of possession to Grêmio’s 45 and outshot the visitors 16 to 7, with 8 efforts on target against 4. Expected goals sat at 2.37 for Flamengo and 0.31 for Grêmio. Corners went 7-4 to the home side. There were no red cards. Flamengo finished without a booking, while Grêmio received two yellow cards, shown to Walter Kannemann and M. Villasanti.

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