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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SPFC lost the game and the leadership

This was a typic kind of game that São Paulo used to play before. Our players did well on the first-half and even scored the first goal. However, afterthat the game got dangerous for us, and Once Caldas was improving its defense. But we stood under control until the end of the primarily part, since all the players we're in excellent harmony. Nevertheless, the second-half began horrible for SPFC. The opponent team scored right on the begging, and São Paulo didn't react positively. Furthermore, the actual coach did a very unhappy substitution of player: instead of adding attacking players to the game, since we wanted to win, he put a defensive middle-fielder one; taking out a striker. Consequentely, Once Caldas scored its victory goal.
Even though this game meant the loss of the top position on the group, it was also very important for the goalkeeper, Rogerio Ceni, that turned into the team's leading scorer in all editions of this tournament.

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São Paulo vs Monterrey

Wensday night São Paulo won the first game of the most important tournament of the year in the morumbi stadium. The game was 2xo, Washington scored once, and the defensive player from Monterrey socred the other. Morumbi was beautiful. There was about 36,000 people singing and supporting all the time. This game was very important to São Paulo, since, besides all other aspects, it was Cicinho's first came when he came back. He was a excellent player that won the world championship with SPFC; however, he went to Europe, but now he's back. He started on the bench, but the croud was shouting his name all the time. In the second-half, missing about 15 minutes to end, the coach Ricardo Gomes put him in. His debut wasn't perfect, accually far away from that. But we're all expecting a lot from what he can do to improve the team. The game itself wasn't perfect too. The players said that it was a bad game, eventhough the final score wasn't that terrible. This thinking is very good, since they'll be always practing a lot to upgrade :)

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SPFC vs. SANTOS

This sunday I went to Barueri (city inside the state of sao paulo) to watch São Paulo against Santos. This game was of big importance for Santos since it was Robinho's first game; and as everyone was expecting, he scored. However, it didn't seem like an easy game for both teams. When it began, SPFC was attacking a lot and Santos just defending. But it didn't take longer than 15 minutes when Santos "balanced" the game. Both teams were playing equaly, but Santos used better its opportunities. The first-half finished SPFC 0 x 1 (Neymar in a penalty kick). On the second-half SPFC had lots of changes with Washington, but who tied the game was Roger. Minutes after that, Robinho scored the last goal of the game. It ended SPFC 1 x 2 santos :(
Fortunately, now spfc is playing championship of huge importance in the world, wich the first game is on the next wensday. As said the coach, 100% focus on this game. On the other hand, Santos is dedicating itself a lot on paulistão, since they're not playing this importante championship.

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