São Paulo's Paulistão run this year already among their worst ever | OneFootball

The defeat to Portuguesa at Morumbi, which left São Paulo stuck at four points earned in these first four matches of the Campeonato Paulista, is already a negative milestone in the club’s history in the competition.

Out of São Paulo’s 95 campaigns in the Paulistão, only four were worse than the current one after four rounds: 1939, 1985, 1960, and 1936.

This is also only the ninth time that the Morumbi club has reached this point in the state championship with a negative goal difference.

The result on Wednesday (21st) also secured other historic marks.

Excluding derbies, this was São Paulo’s second defeat at Morumbi in four matches played in the Campeonato Paulista.

This is a rather rare occurrence, which had only happened eleven other times in history: in the 1978, 1979, 1980 (twice), 1981, 1986 (twice), 1988, 1995, 2005–2006, and 2020 editions.

In the same set of matches, there were also only 21 other times when São Paulo conceded three or more goals, with three of those matches ending in victories and five in draws.

The club from Morumbi has not been having a good run on the field since last year. In its last 21 matches, São Paulo has achieved only 31.7% of the points contested.

Throughout its entire history, São Paulo has only reached this rate on five occasions: 1936, 1960, 1961, 1968, and 2013, with only the latter featuring a combination like the current one—at most six wins and at least 13 defeats.

The negative record came in 2013, when the team managed to win only 19% of the points between June 2 and September 1, a period in which it secured just two victories—something that did not happen in any other similar stretch in the club’s history.

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