Won time off! After Sul-Americana progress, São Paulo changes plans | OneFootball

São Paulo was supposed to have a full week, with no days off for the squad, with training sessions at the CT in addition to the two matches during the period. After the first of them, a 3-1 win over Bolívar that secured qualification in the Copa Sudamericana, the schedule changed.

The club announced that the tricolor squad was given the day off this Wednesday (19), with only the players undergoing recovery set to work at the Barra Funda CT.

And the list of injured players is not small: Rafael Toloi (transitioning back after a strain in the back of his right thigh), Lucas (surgery on the Achilles tendon in his right leg), Lucca (fractured jaw), Bobadilla (pain in his right knee), and Arboleda (swelling in his left adductor) were the absences for the team in the clash against the Bolivians.

Among them, the greatest expectation for a near return is center-back Toloi, who is already in the final stage of recovery from his thigh injury.

On Thursday morning (20), the full group of players returns to training at the CT, as well as on the following two days, in preparation for Sunday’s match (23) against Chapecoense, away from home, in the Brasileirão.

On Saturday (22), São Paulo trains at Barra Funda and in the afternoon travels to Chapecó (SC), where the squad will begin its pre-match camp ahead of the game against the bottom-placed team in the national competition.

This would have been the second straight week without a day off for the Tricolor players, who are still going through an on-field crisis, eased, it is true, after clinching qualification at home against Bolívar. Because they won, they earned a day of rest.

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