Santos drop Morumbi, urge São Paulo to allow Vila use in Brasileirão | OneFootball

The São Paulo board may have gained a problem with the decision of their rival Santos to no longer play at Morumbi this season.

This is because Tricolor may have to choose another venue for their match against Juventude, scheduled for November 23 (Sunday), the same day that the São Paulo stadium will be rented out for a concert by the English band Oasis.

The board’s plan was to use Vila Belmiro, since they have an agreement with Santos for ‘stadium swaps.’ But the problem is that, in theory, the Tricolor club has already chosen the two matches they were entitled to play at Santos’ home: they will face Flamengo on the coast (on November 5) and Bragantino (on the 8th of the same month), due to a concert by the American band Linkin Park.

In this Brasileirão, Santos played twice at Morumbi: they beat Juventude 3-1 and suffered a 6-0 defeat to Vasco, both in August.

Since September, the coastal rival has been negotiating to play a third match at São Paulo’s home. There was talk of their derby against Corinthians on the weekend of October 25, but the idea was eventually dropped.

According to AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR, despite São Paulo’s goodwill (and their fans’ support), who wanted the derby at their home to secure the right to a third match at Vila, Santos themselves gave up. In a complicated situation in the Brasileirão, the team does not want to give up their own stadium.

This should force Tricolor to open talks with Santos, even if it means, let’s say, ‘leaving a game on credit,’ that is, opening Morumbi to the coastal team next year. Talks between the boards are expected to intensify this week.

In 2023, with the victory over Bragantino, São Paulo played as the home team at Santos’ stadium after 86 years. Without their own field at the time and with all options in the São Paulo capital already booked, Tricolor decided to accept Peixe’s proposal to use the stadium in the coastal city for the second round match of that year’s Campeonato Paulista.

In total, São Paulo has played 128 matches at the ‘most famous villa in the world,’ accumulating 47 wins, 29 draws, and 52 losses.

Anyone who thinks all São Paulo matches at Vila were necessarily against Santos is mistaken. In total, São Paulo has faced Portuguesa Santista (five times), Jabaquara (seven times), and even a strange match against Guarani, held during the Covid-19 pandemic on the coast due to sanitary restrictions imposed by the city of Campinas (SP).

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