São Paulo will face Fortaleza this Wednesday (10), away from home, at 9:30 pm, for the 31st round of the Brazilian Championship. Globo broadcasts the match.
Juan Pablo Vojvoda’s team has been a thorn in the side of the São Paulo team this season. The teams have faced each other three times this year. The Cearenses won the first, in the first round of the Nacional, by 1-0, at Morumbi.
In the first game of the quarterfinals of the Copa do Brasil, they tied 2-2, in the capital of São Paulo — São Paulo won the match by 2-0 until the final minutes.
In the last match, valid for the return duel, Fortaleza won overwhelmingly by 3-1 and advanced to the semifinals of the competition.
São Paulo will enter the field at Arena Castelão this Wednesday closer to the relegation zone than to the top six, the group that guarantees qualification for the 2022 Copa Libertadores.
With 37 points, the tricolor team is ten points behind Corinthians, sixth in the table. Looking down, they are only seven ahead of Sport, currently in 17th place, in first place in the descent zone.
Remember that the classification zone for Libertadores can reach the ninth place (today, Cuiabá, with 39 points).
This will depend on the results of the Copa do Brasil finals, between Atlético-MG and Athletico, the Copa Libertadores, between Palmeiras and Flamengo, and the Copa Sudamericana, between the same Athletico and Red Bull Bragantino.
In order for the Libertadores classification zone to go up to ninth place, the winners of these three competitions must be in positions on the Brazilian Nationals table that would also guarantee them a place in the continental tournament.
São Paulo comes from a very unstable sequence in the Brazilian: they lost to Bahia 1-0, beat Internacional by the same scoreboard, lost to Bragantino also 1-0 and beat Corinthians by the minimum advantage, with a goal by Calleri.
Before that, it came from a streak of six consecutive draws, which ousted Argentine Hernán Crespo from the command.
In yet another reunion with his former team, Fortaleza, Rogério Ceni will not be able to count on striker Emiliano Rigoni, one of his main players in the suspended attack.
On the other hand, there may be Calleri’s return, hopes for goals, to the starting lineup.
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