Leonardo de Sá
São Paulo breathes in Paulistão. After being on the edge of the championship relegation zonethe club gained new life after beating Santos 2-0 at Morumbis. The flashes, seen against Flamengo, show that maybe there is hope in the near future. For Peixe, the situation becomes more complicated, entering a phase that, if you don’t win the next two matchesmay be doomed to relegation in the state.
If the Baixada team continues to show football like the classicthese chances increase. Since the beginning of the year, the team has won just one matchin the first round of Paulista. Without a game of brilliance, both teams performed what they managed. Even with these limitations, Tricolor São Paulo showed that it has a little more ball to present.
Missed chances
The match started truncated. Both teams were unable to develop plays and were limited to occasional chanceswhich, for the most part, arose from individual failures or rebounds of kicks fired from one side to the other. Within this scenario, São Paulo still had, on two occasions in the first half, the possibility of opening the scoreboard.
Both with crossed shots that scraped the post, on the side of the field, after a rebound. Still in the opening 45 minutes, Gabriel Menino was sent off upon receiving the second yellow card — the first for purposely hitting the ball on the head of Enzo Díaz, who was lying down, and the second for making a dangerous tackle on Marcos Antônio. In between, Sabino and Zé Rafael left their complaints to the referee, which sparked controversy.
Change of pace
In the second half, Crespo’s changes had an effect. Lucas’ entry was decisive, as, as soon as he touched his feet on the pitch, the number 7 made a decisive pass for Tapia’s goal, even if indirectly. So it was: the Chilean had a small deviation in the black and white defense and opened the scoring in the classic. The euphoria was so great that, five minutes later, São Paulo expanded with Lucianowho, upon receiving a beautiful cross from Marcos Antônio, filled his foot and put the ball in the back of the net.
From then on, Tricolor controlled the game, but almost saw Santos reduce their lead in the 63rd minute, when Rollheiser almost caught Rafael by surpriseforcing the goalkeeper to make a great save. Crespo also promoted new changes, rotated some players and managed the result. Before the final whistle, the team from the capital managed to scare again, but nothing that would change the course of the confrontation.
Future
Os 49,605 fans Those who watched the match in Morumbis were able to breathe a sigh of relief for the first time in Paulistão. The São Paulo moved away from the relegation zonewhich was the biggest concern until now. If it manages to maintain the level of performance, the team can go from “water” to “wine” and qualify for the knockout stages.
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Santos will have to worry about what was previously their rival’s problem. With just six pointsthe coastal club sees the chance of qualifying as increasingly distant, while the possibility of relegation starts to become real.
