Pablo Maia rues bitter draw, says São Paulo ‘must win again somehow’ | OneFootball

Defensive midfielder Pablo Maia’s return to São Paulo was far from what he had dreamed of. The team was beating Botafogo until the final minutes, but once again let it slip and ended up with a 1-1 draw this Saturday (23) in a match for the 17th round of the Brasileirão, at Morumbi.

The feeling for the Cotia academy product after the match was one of sadness. With the result, Tricolor reached the remarkable mark of eight matches without a win.

“It’s sad, bitter, to concede a goal at the end of the game. I think right now we shouldn’t be pointing fingers; we need to keep our heads down and see what has to improve so that in these last two games we can go for the win,” Maia said while still on the pitch.

São Paulo have only two more matches before the break for the World Cup. At Morumbi, on Tuesday (26), they will play seeking qualification to the next round of the Copa Sudamericana against Uruguay’s Boston River. Then, the following weekend, they visit Remo in the Brasileirão.

Pablo Maia knows the weight of the pressure surrounding the Morumbi club and pointed to a single solution to push Tricolor’s crisis away.

“We need to win on Tuesday no matter what to qualify in the Copa Sudamericana and also pick up points in the league, because it’s been a long time since we’ve earned any,” the midfielder concluded.

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