In crisis, São Paulo look to exploit Bahia’s busy run of fixtures | OneFootball

São Paulo will try to take advantage of Bahia’s run of games following the October FIFA break. While Tricolor will have a free week to rest and prepare for this match, Esquadrão de Aço will take the field this Wednesday, marking their third commitment in the last seven days.

Rogério Ceni’s Bahia hosts Internacional at Arena Fonte Nova in a postponed match valid for the 14th round of the Campeonato Brasileiro. Meanwhile, Hernán Crespo’s São Paulo will have no matches throughout the week, focusing all their efforts on Saturday’s game.

With only a 72-hour gap between the match against Internacional and the clash with São Paulo, Bahia will also have to deal with the fatigue from traveling from Salvador to the capital of São Paulo.

Since the time is extremely short, Bahia is expected to hold just one training session, on Friday, with the entire squad available before facing the under-pressure São Paulo at Morumbis.

Tricolor, on the other hand, had Monday off and will conduct four training sessions at CT da Barra Funda in preparation for the tough match against Bahia. Suffering seven defeats in their last eight games, São Paulo urgently needs to bounce back in this final stretch of the season.

It remains to be seen whether this considerable advantage for São Paulo throughout the week will have an effect in the match against Bahia, which will also mark Rogério Ceni’s reunion with the Tricolor fans at Morumbis.

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