Everything has changed! One year after defeat, São Paulo criticizes Flamengo in Rio

After being defeated in the island of Urubu, by 2 to 0, in the last Brasileirão, Tricolor faced a crisis and the fight against the stick. This year, the team is credited with fighting for the title

A little more than a year after being defeated by Flamengo, 2-0 on the island of & # 39; 39, Urubu, by Brasileirão last year, São Paulo returns to Rio de Janeiro to face the red-black. If last season, the Tricolor has duelou with the cariocas extremely pressed for positive results, the panorama is now quite different: the team is fighting here the end of the championship.

For 381 days, Sao Paulo faced Flamengo's fight for not entering the relegation zone. After this defeat, for the 11th round of the last Brasileirão, the team of Morumbi joined Z4, coach Rogério Ceni – the club's maximum idol – was sacked a few days later.

Since then, São Paulo has plunged into a crisis and has only bypbaded it in the final laps of the competition. Alternate Ceni, Dorival Júnior had trouble hitting the team and failed to repeat the good results in Paulistão this year.

However, with the arrival of Diego Aguirre at the Tricolor in March of this year, the team underwent a reformulation and came back to be competitive. With a well-defined tactical scheme and the team involved, São Paulo now proposes to be a rock in the Flamengo shoe, even playing Maracanã.

The Tricolor is currently third in Brasileirão, with 23 points earned, just four behind the Flemish leader. The team lost only one game in the first 12 rounds of the championship and maintained the starting base during the World Cup.