Bad Luck

I don't really remember of seen such a good soccer game in a year, for instance. São Paulo played against Corinthians this Sunday at 4 p.m on Pacaembu with about 24.000 people.
The game started in favor of Corinthians, who made 2 x 0 first with the players Elias and Danilo. However, in a very well-done counterattack, Jean made 2 x 1. Eventhough it seemed that we're going to improve and get better on the game, Corinthians scored another goal, now it was 3 x 1, and a short amount of time to recuperate the score, but not everything was lost. São Paulo
incredibly o tied the game 3 x 3, Rodrigo Souto scoring both goals. Of course that, having all the crowd against you is not easy, but SPFC ALMOST did 3 x 4, but unfortunately who did was Corinthians. On the last two minutes of the game, OUR defensive player scored a goal against our own team. It was not intencional, but because of that bad luck we lost the game. End: Corinthians 4 x 3 São Paulo. In addition, one of our best players received a red card, as well as Dentinho from Corinthians. In my point of view, Washington (the one that received such card) deserved to play all the game, since he was playing fair.
Although we lost the last two games of the state tournament, we still on third place, which takes us to semi-finals. In other words, losing this game didn't make a difference, technically speaking.
Now, the focus is on our next game agains Monterrei in Mexico, for the most important tournament of the year.

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leader :)

Finally SPFC demonstrated a good soccer and won the game against Nacional, again, but now in Morumbi. This time our team played much better and made a beautiful score, 3 x 0. Dagoberto, Leo Lima and Washington was the ones who scored, but in general SPFC was playing united, and showing excellent football. It all started on thursday at 9:30 pm in the stadium of Morumbi - São Paulo. The night had everything in favor, it was hot, it had a looooot of people - all SPFC supporters -

Since the other teams from our group didn't win their games, SPFC is the new leader! Now its left just one game, so our classification to the next phase of this tournament is very close! It all seems like our team is back to the "good and old" SPFC everybody is used to. That fact kind of scares the other teams, since they know we're such a adversary for them.. haha.. 

However, we need to keep that great soccer in all matches, mainly the ones for this specific tournament. I'm pretty sure that now we will become the outstanding team as before, at least we have everything to do so.. =)

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SPFC 2 x 0 Nacional

"Excellent result, but we still have a lot to improve." - Coach Ricardo Gomes

On thursday night SPFC had it's third game for the most important tournament of the year. Since we lost the last game, we needed to win to gain confidence and position. The match took place in Paraguay, Nacional's home. Even though it was in another country, there were hundreds of supporters for our team. Throughout the game, SPFC proved to be superior in both ways, technically and tactically. Nevertheless, the players seemed to be not as interested as it was supposed. This is due to the fact that we we're losing lots of passes and wasting a bunch of chances. But fortunately Washington, again, scored two goals and confirmed our victory.
Certainly playing away from our stadium on such a difficult tournament is not easy, but surely we had everything to do better. But what really matters is the final score, which we achieved :)


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not balanced.

São Paulo had an awesome game against Monte Azul last week. We won from 5 x 1, in which a new player in the team scored 4 goals in 45 minutes. Everything looked finally normal to us, until the next game. São Paulo tied the game against Oeste, but for me that final score wasn't fair. This is due to the fact that SPFC attacked the entire game, it was almost "attack vs. defense". However, we have some excuses. Our coach had a small heart attack on the game agains Palmeiras and wasn't able to go to the game. In addition, our main player and another starter didn't even travel to the city that the game was going to happen.
Even though we're having some difficulties in finding our perfect team and rapport, I'm pretty sure that we will become the old SPFC everybody is used to. Specially when it comes to "Libertadores", since that is the touranment that all teams are looking foward to.

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