Rio v São Paulo: São Paulo must beat Carioca trio for Libertadores dream | OneFootball

São Paulo, with their victory over Bahia last Saturday (25), managed to get back into the fight for a spot in the next edition of the Copa Libertadores through the Brazilian Championship. However, the path to get there puts the Tricolor in an ironic situation: competing against no less than three of the four teams from Rio de Janeiro participating in the national competition.

The Morumbi team currently occupies the ninth position in the standings, with 41 points. They are six points away from the notorious qualification zone for the main South American competition, which at the moment has its sixth position occupied by Botafogo.

Interestingly, the two clubs ahead of São Paulo in the table today are from Rio de Janeiro: Fluminense, in seventh place with 44 points, and Vasco, in eighth with 42.

The Vasco team will even be the Tricolor's opponents in the next round of the Brasileirão, giving a decisive character to the duel at 8:30 PM (Brasília time) on Sunday (2/11), at São Januário.

According to calculations by the Federal University of Minas Gerais, São Paulo is at the greatest disadvantage in this fight for a spot in the Libertadores. The Tricolor has an 8.8% chance, compared to Vasco's 18.3%, Fluminense's 34.5% (who even have one game less than their competitors), Botafogo's 51.8%, and Bahia's 80.8%.

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