São Paulo banking on squad “detox” to get back on track this season | OneFootball

São Paulo got a break in May from its bad phase this season. The tricolor squad was given three days off after the controversial defeat to Palmeiras, right at Morumbis, and the expectation is that the players will return in better condition for the continuation of the calendar.

Coming off an extremely exhausting sequence of matches, including elimination from the Libertadores and recent defeats to rivals Santos and Palmeiras, São Paulo is betting on this “detox” period so that its players can rest and, above all, recover mentally alongside family and friends before returning to their work routine.

Some of São Paulo’s foreign players, for example, decided to travel to their home countries to enjoy the three days off. Others preferred not to post about their break on social media due to the team’s current bad moment.

The tricolor squad will return to the Barra Funda training center on Thursday afternoon, more precisely at 5 p.m. (Brasília time), beginning preparations for the match against Grêmio, which will only take place on October 16 in Porto Alegre, for the Campeonato Brasileiro.

In recent days, only the players recovering from physical problems have been working at the Barra Funda training center, such as Calleri (surgery on his left knee), Ryan (surgery on his left knee), André Silva (posterior cruciate ligament injury and anterior cruciate ligament sprain in his right knee), Luan (right adductor injury), and Rafael Toloi (injury to the back of his left thigh).

Until then, coach Hernán Crespo will have exactly one week to prepare the team, aiming to make the most of the free time provided by the October FIFA break, which runs from the 6th to the 14th.

São Paulo dropped from seventh to eighth place in the Campeonato Brasileiro in the last round and needs to start scoring again to avoid falling further behind the G6, the group of the top six teams that secure a spot in the next edition of the Copa Libertadores.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.