São Paulo face worst Paulistão run in 87 years, battling drop | OneFootball

The phase of São Paulo is far from good. And the memory of the fans is also distant when it comes to finding another campaign as poor as this one in the Paulista Championship.

Understandably so. This is São Paulo's third worst campaign after five games in the Paulista Championship, only ahead of those in 1936 (five losses) and 1939 (one win and four losses).

In other words, it has been 87 years since the Morumbi club had such a negative start in the State Championship.

Even in the other four editions where the Tricolor earned four points (1960, 1981, and 1985), the campaign was better because victories were worth two points, so in those cases, there was one win, two draws, and two losses.

In its last 22 games, São Paulo has a performance rate of only 31.7% of the points contested.

Throughout its history, the Tricolor has only reached lower rates on four occasions: 1936, 1960, 1961, and 2013, with only the latter having a combination like the current one, with a maximum of six wins and at least 13 losses.

The negative record came in 2013, when the team managed to win only 23.8% of the points between June 12 and September 8, a period in which it achieved only three victories, something that only occurred in another similar stretch in the club's history (1961).

The negative streaks don't stop there.

With two wins, three draws, and 11 losses, São Paulo secured only 18.8% of the points in dispute in its last 16 away games, matching the record obtained between April 23 and October 18, 2017.

Even with some home field data being unreliable before the 1980s, it is possible to confidently state that there has been no other sequence equal to or worse in the club's history.

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