 The following day Flamengo announced that head coach Paulo César Carpegiani and football director Rodrigo Caetano had been fired.Carpegiani had been at his post for 17 matches and less than three months.Caetano had been with Flamengo since 2015 and the club had only won the 2017 Campeonato Carioca in that span, finishing runners-up in the Copa do Brasil and Copa Sudamericana that same year.