Calleri overtakes Leônidas, Raí and França in São Paulo’s Paulistão scorers | OneFootball

Calleri’s goal did little to change the outcome of the semifinal lost by São Paulo against Palmeiras on Sunday (1), but it did have some impact on the striker’s individual statistics.

With it, the number 9 reached 14 goals in knockout matches for the club and now occupies 11th place among the top Tricolor scorers in this type of match, surpassing Palhinha and closing in on Reinaldo, the center-forward who played for São Paulo between 2002 and 2003.

The goal also confirmed Calleri as São Paulo’s top scorer in this edition of the Campeonato Paulista, with five goals. This is the fourth time he has finished the State Championship as the team’s leading scorer, a feat achieved by few in the club’s history: besides him, only Gino Orlando, Luís Fabiano, and Serginho Chulapa have reached this mark, with Serginho doing it eight times, including every edition from 1975 to 1982.

With this year’s achievement, the Argentine has already surpassed, among others, Leônidas da Silva, Raí, and França (see below).

The goal was also the Argentine’s 15th in state derbies, leaving him just two away from joining the group of the 20 top Tricolor scorers against their biggest rivals.

There is, however, a statistic that helps to illustrate the contrast between numbers and results: this was the first time Calleri scored in a state derby and ended up on the losing side.

In the previous 11 occasions when he had found the net against Corinthians, Palmeiras, and Santos, his record was eight wins and three draws.

This season, Calleri was only absent in the opener against Mirassol, the last match he missed while recovering from knee surgery on his left knee last April. Since then, he has been the only outfield player in the squad to feature in all of the following 13 matches, starting seven and coming off the bench in six. He now has seven goals, making him the Tricolor’s top scorer of the year and the player most involved in goals.

(Tricolor Notes)

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