Fan Lucas: São Paulo endured a sad spell, players wanted it over | OneFootball

Lucas Moura lamented the situations at São Paulo, both on and off the field. On Sunday afternoon (18th), the team drew 1-1 with Corinthians in the Paulistão, after leading until the end of the derby. In addition, the club is experiencing a turbulent political moment, with the impeachment motion against former president Julio Casares.

In the Majestoso, Tricolor was heavily threatened in the first half, but managed to take the lead on the scoreboard in Itaquera. When it seemed like they would take the victory back to Morumbi, a defensive lapse allowed the rival to equalize. Lucas did not hide his bitter feelings about the result.

“Without a doubt, it leaves a bitter taste, I think we let two points slip away here today. Drawing here is not a bad result, but given the circumstances of the game, since we took the lead and controlled much of the match, neutralizing their attacks, to concede a goal at the end is a bitter feeling, we let two points slip away. But that's football, we knew it would be decided in the details, so we let this victory escape,” said the number 7 in the mixed zone for Tricolor.

A Tricolor fan himself, Lucas did not hide his sadness about the moment the club is going through and said it is a ‘negative mark in the history’ of São Paulo.

“What happens off the field, in the presidency, in any other area, that's something we can't control. Obviously, we end up seeing everything that happens, seeing the news, even though we don't have access to all the details, what we often know is what happens, what appears in the press, but we find out and obviously it was a very delicate, very sad moment.”

“I, as a São Paulo supporter who came up through the club, it is a moment, unfortunately a negative mark in our history, for our institution, a sad moment, but these are things we can't control, right?” he added.

The team leader said the issue had become too big and no one was talking about football at São Paulo anymore, and the players were hoping that the whole situation would be resolved as quickly as possible.

“What we can control is honoring the shirt we wear every day. That was all anyone talked about, right? Everyone opened the newspapers, all the news was just about that, about politics, so we wanted this to be over soon, to be resolved, to be sorted out so we can talk about football again,” Lucas Moura concluded.

The result in the derby keeps the São Paulo team out of the qualifying zone for the knockout stage of the State Championship. They are in ninth place, with four points. On Wednesday (21st), at 7:30 pm (Brasília time), there is another derby: Portuguesa, at Morumbi.

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