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

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

In the Majestoso, the Tricolor was heavily threatened in the 1st half but took the lead in Itaquera. When it seemed they would take the victory to Morumbi, they had a defensive lapse and conceded the equalizer to their rival. Lucas did not hide the bitter taste of the result.

“Without a doubt, 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, as we took the lead, we controlled a good part of the game, neutralizing their attacks, and conceding a goal at the end leaves a bitter taste, we let two points slip away. But that's football, we knew it would be decided in the details, so we let this victory slip away,” said the number 7 in the Tricolor's mixed zone.

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

“What happens off the field, in the presidency, in any other area, 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 fan raised in the club, it's a moment, an unfortunately negative mark for our history, for our institution, a sad moment, but these are things we can't control, right?” he added.

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

“What we can control is honoring the shirt we wear every day. That's all anyone talked about, right? Everyone opened the newspapers, all the news was just about this, about politics, so we wanted this to end soon, to be resolved, to be adjusted so we could now talk about football,” Lucas Moura concluded.

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

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