It gets worse: Crespo left São Paulo on 83%, Dorival Jr cut it to 16% | OneFootball

Dorival Júnior has reached his sixth match in charge of São Paulo in the Brazilian Championship and is still without a win. After the 1-1 draw with Coritiba at Morumbi on Saturday night (15), the coach now has three draws and three losses in the national competition since returning to the club.

Of Tricolor’s 22 matches in the Brasileirão, four were under Hernán Crespo from the start, 11 with Roger Machado, and another six with Dorival Jr. on the bench, in addition to one more match led by assistant coach Milton Cruz.

Missing Crespo

Of the three, the Argentine Crespo has by far the best record, with three wins and one draw, for an impressive 83.3% success rate. Tricolor beat Flamengo, Grêmio, and Coritiba, and drew 1-1 with Santos in the derby at Vila Belmiro during the former coach’s spell, when he left the team at the top of the table.

After the elimination against Palmeiras in the Paulista semifinal, came Crespo’s dismissal—still controversial to this day—to make way for Roger Machado, which only further fueled the fans’ fury over the change in charge.

Downhill

The coach from Rio Grande do Sul nearly cut the team’s league success rate in half, down to 42.4%, after four wins, two draws, and five defeats.

After yet another elimination this year, this time in the Copa do Brasil against Juventude, there was another coaching change: Roger out, Dorival Jr. back in. Tricolor were already on a five-match winless run with Machado on the bench.

Then came another defeat in the league, against Fluminense at the Maracanã, with Dorival already announced but Milton Cruz still leading the team from the touchline. Under the new coach, the team still has not won in the national competition.

After losses to Remo, Athletico-PR, and Grêmio, and draws with Botafogo, Flamengo, and Coritiba, Dorival Jr.’s success rate with Tricolor in this Brasileirão is just 16.7%.

São Paulo remain on 27 points in 12th place, but could drop two positions after Sunday’s (16) Brasileirão matches. As Crespo rightly warned—and that was even one of the reasons for his dismissal—the club’s main objective this year is reaching 45 points.

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