Watch: Flamengo's Everton thrashes in a stunning volley

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A fabulous volley, a bulging net and a flailing goalkeeper. Perfect.

This is the way to equalise in a semi-final:

That's Flamengo's Everton, pulling his side level in the 86th minute of this Campeonato Carioca clash with a first-time swipe of his left boot.

Welington Pereira Rodrigues (known as "Gum" to his friends) had given Fluminense the lead at the Estadio Olimpico, opening the scoring on the stroke of half-time with a back-post header from a corner. Fluminense might have been two-up by the time Everton equalised, though, after a late - and questionable - offside flag ruled out a close-range finish (from 5:50 in the video below).

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Seb Stafford-Bloor

Seb Stafford-Bloor is a football writer at Tifo Football and member of the Football Writers' Association. He was formerly a regularly columnist for the FourFourTwo website, covering all aspects of the game, including tactical analysis, reaction pieces, longer-term trends and critiquing the increasingly shady business of football's financial side and authorities' decision-making.