São Paulo breathes

Firstly, now with 45 points, São Paulo is breathing in the Brazilian championship.

A hard-fought victory for São Paulo

As everything has happened for Tricolor fans in recent years, victories are always accompanied by a lot of suffering.

The first half of the game ended 0-0, but Sport had chances to score too, the São Paulo tricolor's ball insisted on not going in.

In principle, it seems like it would be another 0x0 and the suffering would last for more rounds fighting the Z4.

Benítez came in to help

At halftime of the game, Rogério Ceni decided to put Benítez on the field, the fans shouted his name asking for the player to come on.

The coach decided to listen to the fan's request, removed Vitor Bueno, and at the beginning of the second half Benítez crossed for Calleri's goal.

São Paulo 1×0 and a celebration for the more than 35 thousand fans present at Morumbi, and for the more than 20 million fans spread across the country.

Definitely with Benítez on the field the team seems to have more options, he helps to provide more dynamics.

His passes give the team more speed, and take away a bit of that aimless touch of the ball.

Benítez always tries to pass forward, he always tries to trigger an offensive play.

However, the athlete's participation when he is without the ball is very small, perhaps that is the reason why he is not a starter.

So with São Paulo winning 1-0, Sport needed to come out to attack, which opened up space for the second tricolor goal.

The player Marquinhos made a good move on the left and crossed for Gabriel Sara to define the game, 2-0 for Tricolor.

An important highlight is Sara’s positioning. With the victory the team reaches 45 points and breathes a little.

He is always arriving to define, shortly before he had already demanded an excellent save from Maílson after a play by Rodrigo Nestor.

He is an athlete who still has a lot of growing to do, but has already been very important for São Paulo.

Sad outlook for 2022

Finally, if 2021 was tense for fans, next year holds a lot of emotions.

At the press conference, coach Rogério Ceni made São Paulo's situation clear, he said:

“São Paulo has a lot of debt, next year we either lower the payroll and only participate in the championships, or we find an investor.”

Finally, fans hope that Júlio Casares and his team will be able to pull a rabbit out of the hat and put together a competitive team.

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Photo: Marcos Ribolli.