Crespo’s São Paulo bounce back, unbeaten again after 6 months | OneFootball

Do a mental exercise and go back in time to exactly one month ago. The scenario was bleak, with São Paulo caught up in corruption scandals and on the verge of approving the impeachment of its then-president, Julio Casares.

To make matters worse, the start of the year on the field for Tricolor was also worrisome. The team racked up poor results on the pitch and even flirted with a battle to avoid relegation in the Campeonato Paulista.

But, everything passes, everything will pass, as the song goes. And now Hernán Crespo, who at one point was questioned and saw rumors of his dismissal spread, is enjoying an unbeaten streak not only unprecedented this year, but not seen for a long time.

The current run of four matches without defeat is quite modest, but it’s the first time the club has reached such a sequence since the period between August 9 and 24 of last year, when they went five games unbeaten, with two wins and three draws.

In his press conference after the victory over Primavera on the weekend, Crespo confirmed that the departure of Casares and the internal pacification of the club’s politics were indeed factors that helped the Morumbi club regain good form.

Beyond that, the São Paulo coach avoids talking about magic formulas for the return of good results, limiting himself to praising the internal work.

“Not to think negatively and not to think positively. I am always the same, always the same. I think it’s normal. If you look at results (makes a gesture of ups and downs)… you play every three days… I don’t know of any other profession that has tests every three days. At university, it happens… you, who studied at university, does it happen that every three days you have an exam?” he asked.

“Well, in football, yes. And it’s good and it’s bad every three days. And there is a sequence… we were talking about the sequence ten days ago… ten days ago the results were… so, I don’t chase after results. I chase after the work, the idea is to achieve results… things happen… it’s football… you have to be calm and analyze other things that are part of my job. I can’t think that the fan has to think like I do or that you have to think like I do, because it’s a different job. For me, it’s always the same: in defeat, in victory… always the same. Try to see things to improve, positive things… but try to convey a calm that doesn’t go according to the results, which are the most important thing, because that’s the reality. But I have to think about the functioning, the people, the players… the people who go through moments, also off the field… things that logically you don’t know. I have to follow, to help, to see… and many times, these situations also condition the choices. You say that Crespo doesn’t see… I see everything. Rest assured, because I see everything. I can make mistakes just the same, but it’s much bigger than just choosing eleven (players),” he concluded.

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