Dorival 2026 matches Dorival 2023's worst Brasileirão run at São Paulo | OneFootball

The 2-1 loss to Athletico-PR this Wednesday (23), coming from behind at home, marked São Paulo’s sixth straight game in the Brazilian Championship.

The run, which began after the 1-0 win over Mirassol on April 25, is the club’s worst streak in a single edition of the competition since the period between July and September 2023.

Curiously, at that time Tricolor was also managed by coach Dorival Júnior.

That year, there was still an excuse: the Morumbi club was enjoying a prolonged hangover from its unprecedented Copa do Brasil title, which secured a place in the Copa Libertadores and led much of the fan base to soften its view of the bizarre results in the country’s main competition.

According to data from ‘Anotações Tricolores’, in the club’s entire history in the national tournament, this is the 17th time Tricolor has gone at least six matches without a win, and on nine of those occasions the negative run was even longer.

The concentration of these unsatisfactory performances in the institution’s recent history stands out: of the 17 recorded instances, 13 occurred in the 21st century, 12 since 2011, and ten since 2016.

The longest and most frequent winless runs in that span were seen in:

12 matches: 2013;

9 matches: 2011, 2017 and 2021;

8 matches: 2005 and 2023;

7 matches: 2018, 2019 and 2020.

First-half record in the round-robin era

The result also confirmed the fifth-worst first half of the season in São Paulo’s history in the 20-team round-robin era of the Brazilian Championship (in place since 2006).

After 19 rounds played, the team’s performance was better only than its campaigns in 2017, 2021 and 2023 in terms of points earned.

In terms of specific offensive and defensive metrics, the balance shows that in six editions the team scored fewer goals and in four it conceded more times than it has so far now.

The picture stands in sharp contrast to the start of the competition, when São Paulo recorded its best-ever opening through the first six rounds in the tournament’s history.

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