Calleri overtakes Leônidas, Raí and França on São Paulo’s top scorers list | OneFootball

Calleri's goal did little to change the outcome of the semifinal lost by São Paulo against Palmeiras on Sunday (1), but it did have some impact on the striker's individual statistics.

With it, the number 9 reached 14 goals in knockout matches for the club and moved up to 11th place among the top scorers for São Paulo in this type of match, surpassing Palhinha and approaching Reinaldo, a forward who played for São Paulo between 2002 and 2003.

The goal also confirmed Calleri as São Paulo's top scorer in this edition of the Campeonato Paulista, with five goals. It is the fourth time he finishes the State Championship as the team's main scorer, a feat achieved by few in the club's history: besides him, only Gino Orlando, Luís Fabiano, and Serginho Chulapa have reached this mark, with Serginho doing it eight times, including all editions between 1975 and 1982.

With this year's achievement, the Argentine has already surpassed, among others, Leônidas da Silva, Raí, and França (see below).

The goal was also the 15th for the Argentine in state classics, leaving him just two goals away from entering the group of the top 20 scorers for São Paulo against their biggest rivals.

However, there is one statistic that helps to highlight the contrast between numbers and results: it was the first time Calleri scored in a state classic and ended up defeated.

In the previous 11 occasions when he had found the net against Corinthians, Palmeiras, and Santos, his record was eight wins and three draws.

This season, Calleri was only absent in the debut match against Mirassol, the last game he missed while recovering from knee surgery in April last year. Since then, he has been the only outfield player in the squad to play in all the following 13 matches, seven of them as a starter and six coming off the bench. He now has seven goals, being the top scorer for São Paulo this year and the one who participated in the most goals.

(São Paulo Notes)

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