São Paulo’s hopes: Lucas and Oscar not paired since Paulistão | OneFootball

Lucas and Oscar are expected for the quarter-final second leg of the Libertadores this Thursday, against LDU, at Morumbis. Both have recovered from their respective injuries and have been training normally with the squad in recent days.

Still far from their ideal physical form, Lucas and Oscar are likely to start the match on the bench, but the trend is for both to receive minutes, especially if São Paulo has not yet built the necessary score to confirm qualification for the Libertadores semi-final.

The two have played together in only 11 matches this season, all for the Paulista Championship. There are six wins, three draws, and only two losses for São Paulo with Lucas and Oscar on the field, a performance of 63.63%.

More than that, in three games São Paulo managed to beat the opponent by two or more goals difference with Lucas and Oscar on the field. Tricolor beat Corinthians 3-1, Santos also 3-1, and Mirassol 4-1.

Injuries

São Paulo's main reinforcement for the season, Oscar recently recovered from his third injury in 2025. Between the end of March and the beginning of April, the midfielder injured the posterior region of his left thigh. In May, he had to deal with edema in the same region. In July, he fractured three lumbar vertebrae in the classic against Corinthians.

In total, Oscar missed 28 São Paulo games this season. Throughout the year, the team has played 51 games so far. That is, the number 8 was out of almost half of Tricolor's commitments in 2025.

Lucas Moura, on the other hand, had to deal with a more complex case. In March, the São Paulo idol suffered his first injury, a trauma to his right knee that took him out of ten matches. Then, in May, he suffered a strain of the posterior capsule of the right knee, another 15 games out. In August, after a long conservative treatment, the number 7 had to undergo arthroscopy to remove fibrosis in the right knee, losing four more matches.

Adding one more game in which he was absent due to load control, Lucas Moura was absent in 30 São Paulo commitments this season. That is, the team's main player did not play in more than half of the games that were in dispute.

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