Historic talking points after São Paulo 2-0 O’Higgins | OneFootball

On the night of this past Tuesday (14), Tricolor defeated Chile’s O’Higgins 2-0 at MorumBIS, with goals from Luciano and Artur, in a CONMEBOL Sudamericana match. Below are some historical or statistical highlights from the game:

NEW KIT

The result in the match that marked the debut of São Paulo’s No. 2 kit for the 2026 season extended the team’s unbeaten run to 13 games when unveiling a new shirt. São Paulo have not lost in a kit debut since June 2021 (a 2-0 defeat to Santos at Vila Belmiro).

On the other hand, it was the first home win wearing the No. 2 shirt at MorumBIS in the 21st century. Since 2001, São Paulo had drawn 0-0 with Sport (Brasileirão, June 23, 2016), lost 3-2 to Bragantino (Paulista, July 23, 2020), and drawn 1-1 with Cruzeiro (April 13, 2025).

In fact, the last win under these circumstances had come on February 23, 1991, against Fluminense in the Brazilian Championship (1-0), at the end of the historical period when the home team wore the reserve kit in cases where it was similar to the opponent’s.

TRICOLOR’S TOP SCORER IN THE CONMEBOL SUDAMERICANA

Luciano, who was already São Paulo’s leading scorer in the history of the competition, pulled even further ahead, reaching eight goals in the tournament — three more than Luis Fabiano and Kléber. In fact, it was the striker’s fourth goal in the competition in a match played at MorumBIS, making him the team’s top scorer by that measure, surpassing center back Antônio Carlos and midfielders Patrick and Souza (all with three goals).

WINNING GOAL

With the score at 2-0, statistically the winning goal is credited to the scorer of the game’s first goal — in this case, Luciano. In this way, the striker reached 35 goals of that kind for the club, matching Maurinho and Terto — all tied for 12th place in the all-time ranking. With six more goals of this type, Luciano would enter the top 10, alongside Renato. São Paulo’s top scorer in this category is Serginho Chulapa, with 73 goals.

OPENING GOAL

In the tight race with Calleri, the game’s first goal put Luciano ahead of his teammate in the historical numbers. The No. 10 now has 37 opening goals, compared to the Argentine’s 36. They occupy 15th and 16th place in the all-time ranking, respectively, with four more goals needed for the first of them to enter the all-time top 10 (leveling Careca and Renato). Once again, the overall leader is Serginho Chulapa, with 85 goals.

GOALS THAT PUT THE TEAM AHEAD

In terms of putting Tricolor ahead of the opponent at any point in the match, Luciano’s goal was his 53rd of that kind, which places him 11th in the all-time ranking, just one goal behind 10th-placed Pedro Rocha. At the top, as expected, is Serginho Chulapa, with 109 goals in this category.

ALMOST 200 GOALS

Luciano scored his 107th goal for Tricolor (surpassing Remo and taking 16th place in the overall ranking of the club’s all-time top scorers). As a result, the two main São Paulo strikers in the current squad now combine for 197 goals.

If all possible attacking pairings in the club’s history are analyzed, using the criterion that one player cannot have fewer than 50% of the other’s goal total, Calleri-Luciano is São Paulo’s 36th highest-scoring duo of all time, but the biggest of the 21st century.

Of course, that total does not represent the number of goals they scored while playing together, or in the same game. With both on the field in the same match, and with one or the other scoring, they have combined for 122 goals, with 67 from the Argentine and 54 from the Brazilian. In this regard, they are the 14th best attacking duo in history (tied with Raí and Müller — the top pair is Canhoteiro and Gino Orlando, with 218 goals).

Now, both players scoring in the same game (which was not the case in yesterday’s match) is something rarer: it has only happened 13 times, with Calleri scoring 16 goals and Luciano 15 (making them the 32nd duo in the all-time ranking led by the pair Gino Orlando-Maurinho, with goals in 34 matches, 44 by the former and 46 by the latter).

200 MATCHES

Goalkeeper Rafael made his 200th appearance for São Paulo in the match against O’Higgins. The keeper reached the marks of 91 wins, 51 draws, and 58 losses, with 181 goals conceded — that is, an average of 0.91 per game, the fourth best among the top 10 in the position, behind only Sérgio, with 0.75; Gilmar, with 0.79; and Waldir Peres, with 0.82.

Rafael’s 200 matches place him ninth in the all-time ranking among goalkeepers. With one more match, Rafael will match Sérgio’s number of appearances, and by reaching 203, he will tie the legendary King. Moving up further will take a little more time. Sixth-placed Gilmar has 253 matches, and fifth-placed Suly has 266. From fourth place upward, the situation is more challenging: Zetti has 432 matches; Poy has 525; Waldir Peres has 617; and, well, Rogério Ceni is in a league of his own with 1,237.

In terms of clean sheets, Rafael reached 81 matches without conceding a goal. He is the seventh most successful São Paulo goalkeeper in that respect, behind only Ceni (418), Waldir Peres (275), Zetti (161), Poy (156), Gilmar (110), and Sérgio (94).

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