Striker Pedro do Flamengo has confirmed injury and becomes embezzlement in the next game

O Flamengo there was another unpleasant news this Thursday (11), the striker Pedro was submitted to exams and an injury was found in the right thigh, with that the shirt 9 red-black stays out of the match on Saturday (13) at 4 pm (Brasília time) against bahia in savior.

In last Wednesday’s game (10) against Goias at the Maracanãwhere Flamengo won 2-0, Pedro was the author of the first goal in a penalty kick, but in the beat he started to feel pain and had to be replaced by Bruno Henrique even in the first half of the match.

With that, Pedro becomes Flamengo’s fifth absence due to injury, in addition to him are Gerson, Varela, Matheusinho, Thiago Maia It is Felipe Luis, all of which are in the recovery phase. In the case of the striker red-blackthe medical department says that it is nothing very serious, but it is still not certain if the player will return in the match next Tuesday (16) against Fluminense for the Brazil’s Cupit will depend a lot on the attacker’s evolution, in relation to the other athletes they will undergo evaluations and if everything goes well there is a possibility that some of them will be included in Saturday’s match.

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_{Announcement of striker Pedro’s injury. Playback (Photo/Twitter @Flamengo)}

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Pedro has been one of the highlights of Flamengo, being the team’s top scorer at the beginning of the season, having scored 17 goals in 18 matches in all competitions in the year, in the artillery of the year he is behind the Argentine striker German Cano from Fluminense who has 23 goals.

If you can’t count on your scorer, there is a possibility that Bruno Henrique, who replaced him during the game, will inherit the vacancy, the only problem is how his physical conditions will be, as the striker recently returned to the pitch after 10 months recovering from a knee injury, and has not played 90 minutes. The other option that would be the most obvious is to Everton Cebolinha who has been playing good games since the arrival of the coach Jorge Sampaoli.

Featured photo Pedro in the game against Goiás. Reproduction/Marcelo Pontes/Site Coluna do Fla