Crespo’s São Paulo bounce back, unbeaten again after 6 months | OneFootball

Do a mental exercise and go back in time exactly one month. The scenario was bleak, with São Paulo entangled in corruption scandals and on the verge of approving the impeachment of its then-president, Julio Casares.

To make matters worse, the start of the year on the field for the Tricolor was also worrying. The team accumulated poor results on the field and even flirted with the fight to escape relegation in the Paulista Championship.

But, everything passes, everything will pass, as the song would say. And now Hernán Crespo, who was questioned at some point and saw rumors of his dismissal proliferate, enjoys an unbeaten streak not only unprecedented this year but not achieved for a long time.

The series of four matches without defeats recorded so far is quite modest, but it is the first time the club has reached such a sequence since the period between August 9 and 24 of last year, when they went five games unbeaten, with two wins and three draws.

In his press conference after the victory over Primavera last weekend, Crespo confirmed that the departure of Casares and the internal pacification in the club's politics were indeed factors that helped the Morumbi club regain its good form.

Besides that, the São Paulo coach avoids talking about magic formulas for the return of good results, limiting himself to praising the internal work.

“Not thinking negatively and not thinking positively. I am always the same, always the same. I think it's normal. If you see results (makes a gesture of ups and downs)… you play every three days… I don't know any other profession that has exams every three days. At university, it happens… you, who studied at university, does it happen that every three days you have an exam?” he asked.

“Well, in football, yes. And it's good and bad every three days. And there is a sequence… we were talking about the sequence ten days ago… ten days ago the results were going… so, I don't chase results. I chase the work, the idea is to achieve the results… things happen… it's football… you have to stay calm and analyze other things that are part of my job. I can't think that the fan has to think like me or that you have to think like me, because it's another job. For me, it's always the same: in defeat, in victory… always the same. Try to see things to improve, positive things… but try to convey a calmness that doesn't go according to the results, which are the most important thing, because that's the reality. But I have to think about the functioning, the people, the players… the people who go through moments, also off the field… things that logically you don't know. I have to accompany, to help, to see… and often, these situations also condition the choices. You say that Crespo doesn't see… I see everything. Rest assured, because I see everything. I can make mistakes just the same, but it's much bigger than a choice of eleven (players),” he concluded.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.