Luciano shines as São Paulo beat Bahia, ending their poor run this season | OneFootball

São Paulo has finally returned to winning ways. This Saturday, the team led by Hernán Crespo defeated Bahia 2-0, with a great performance from Luciano, who opened the scoring, scoring his 100th goal for the club, and provided the assist for Bobadilla to also find the net, at Morumbis, in the 30th round of the Brazilian Championship.

With this result, Tricolor ended a streak of seven defeats in eight games and climbed back up the Brasileirão table, reclaiming, even if only temporarily, eighth place and putting themselves back in the fight for a spot in the next Libertadores.

Bahia, on the other hand, missed the chance to keep up with Mirassol, weakening their fight for a place in the G4.

São Paulo will only take the field again next Sunday, against Vasco, at 8:30 pm (Brasília time), at São Januário, for the 31st round of the Brasileirão. Bahia, meanwhile, will face Red Bull Bragantino on the same day, at 4:00 pm (Brasília time).

Match Summary

SÃO PAULO 2 X 0 BAHIA

 Competition: Brazilian Championship  Venue: Morumbis, São Paulo  Date: October 25, 2025 (Saturday)  Time: 9:30 pm (Brasília time) Attendance: 15,221 fans Revenue: R$ 686,708.00

 Yellow Cards: Maik, Luciano (São Paulo); David Duarte, Ademir, Rodrigo Nestor (Bahia)  Red Cards: none

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Goals São Paulo Luciano, 7' 1st half; Bobadilla, 40' 1st half

SÃO PAULO

Rafael; Arboleda, Alan Franco and Sabino; Maik (Mailton), Pablo Maia (Luiz Gustavo), Bobadilla (Negrucci), Marcos Antônio and Enzo Díaz; Lucas (Tapia) and Luciano (Ferreirinha). Coach: Hernán Crespo.

BAHIA

Ronaldo; Santi Arias (Gilberto) (Erick), David Duarte, Ramos Mingo and Iago Borduchi (Luciano Juba); Acevedo, Jean Lucas and Rodrigo Nestor; Tiago (Sanabria) (Kayky), Ademir and Willian José.

Coach: Rogério Ceni.

The Match

Luciano shines in the 1st half

São Paulo finally rediscovered their good football this Saturday and wasted no time proving it to the fans. Just five minutes in, Lucas delivered a beautiful lofted pass to Luciano, who struck first-time inside the box, scaring Bahia's goalkeeper.

Soon after, Crespo's men were more fortunate. Maik received a pass from Luciano on the right and returned it with a low cross. The number 10 finished first-time, into the top corner, scoring a beautiful goal—his 100th for São Paulo—right at the start of the match.

Bahia responded in the 19th minute with Jean Lucas, who received the ball on a counterattack and went one-on-one with Rafael, but shot wide, missing a great opportunity for the visitors.

São Paulo became more lethal again just before halftime. In the 37th minute, Lucas Moura's goal was disallowed. Arboleda set it up at the far post, and number 7 headed into the net, outjumping the defense, but the referee called offside at the start of the play.

At the 40th minute, however, there was no stopping them. Pablo Maia sent a lofted pass to Luciano, who set it up with a backheel for Bobadilla to control inside the box and finish powerfully, extending São Paulo's lead.

Bahia threatens, but suffers with injuries

In the second half, Bahia almost pulled one back just 20 seconds in, when Willian José received a perfect cross and headed freely inside the box, forcing Rafael to make a great save.

Afterwards, however, two players brought on by Rogério Ceni at halftime ended up leaving the field. First it was Sanabria. Then, Gilberto. Thus, Bahia's coach was forced to turn to whoever was left on the bench, seeing his plan compromised by chance and having to settle for defeat to São Paulo at Morumbis.

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