São Paulo double break, injured players return early: latest update | OneFootball

Midfielder Marcos Antonio is being prepared to return in the Libertadores (Photo: Anuar Sayed/SPFC)

MARCIO MONTEIRO

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With the club calendar paused for the Fifa date, São Paulo has divided its schedule into two stages before returning to play in the Brasileirão, next Sunday, the 14th, at 5:30 pm (Brasília time), at Morumbi.

Aftertraining at the Barra Funda CT on Saturday (6), the tricolor group gets two days off this Sunday (7) and Monday (8) holiday. Except for some athletes, who return earlier.

This Monday, the rest will only be for those who have been training normally, without physical restrictions. Meanwhile, the São Paulo players in recovery will work in the morning.

And the CT will not be empty. The club's injury list is extensive. In the last training, they did technical work on a reduced field andare still not 100% the defender Arboleda (final phase of physical transition after recovering from a muscle injury), midfielder Luiz Gustavo (recovering from pulmonary thromboembolism) and forward Rigoni (did his first work with the squad after being hired).

Of these,Arboleda and Rigoni, who had been playing in Mexico, are the ones who should be available for Hernan Crespo for the duel with Botafogo. Luiz Gustavo still needs to have better daily monitoring to know when he can return to the games.

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Themidfielders Marcos Antonio, who is expected to return against LDU, and Hugo, midfielder Oscar and forward Calleri will continue their recovery schedules on Monday. In recent days, they have done internal activities interspersed with field runs, under the supervision of São Paulo's physiotherapists.

In even longer situations,midfielder Lucas and forward André Silva also return to work tomorrow to continue the recovery process in the club's Reffis.

Who was out in the last game against Cruzeiro with hip pain isAlisson, who is fully recovered and even participated in a training match against the Tricolor's U-20 team this Saturday. He is also a boost for Crespo for the rest of the season and is another one who embarks on the double break.

On Tuesday afternoon(9), the entire São Paulo squad resumes activities at the CT, for a sequence of five consecutive days of training in preparation for the home game with Botafogo, for the 23rd round of the Brasileirão.

The club's players called up for their national teams,Ferraresi, Bobadilla and Tapia, will join their Tricolor teammates in the middle of the week, and should also not be a problem for the coach in the next match.

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