Sao Paulo and Santos have faced each other in the Rio-São Paulo tournament, and that was in the final round of the regular season, with Sao Paulo and Santos competing directly over who will qualify for the playoffs.

Originally, Santos had the upper hand.

As a result, São Paulo replaced the glory and completed the stunner.

In the end, Sao Paulo advanced to the last four and qualified for the playoffs, while Santos missed out on the playoffs.

This time it was Santos' chance for revenge.

Santos' performances this season are typical of getting better and better.

At the beginning of the national championships, their performances were up and down, good and bad, and the team's lineup was never fixed, and the starting lineup changed every game.

It's a completely young team, and it's normal for performances to be up and down, and it's normal for them to be inconsistent.

But young people have one thing in common, that is, they grow up quickly and progress quickly. Because they have a small base, the initial progress is always the fastest.

As the tournament progressed, so did their performances.

In the end, they made it all the way to the playoffs.

Ahead of the match against Sao Paulo, the president of Santos FC, Marcelo Teixeira, expressed his confidence: "I am not at all surprised by their good performances, because when I was in the youth team, there were a lot of European scouts who took their liking to them. ”

In his words, he was quite proud of Santos' youth strength.

And Robinho's experience in this national championship has also made more people familiar with him and understand him.

The name "Bailey II" became louder and louder.

The Santos Twins formed by him and Diego have become a high-profile duo.

Many people believe that if they are given enough time, they will become superstars of the world.

The only pity is that in the first round of the knockout round, they met the mighty São Paulo.

There were also two young men in the São Paulo line-up.

But for now, it seems that the "Gemini" of São Paulo is more mature and stable than the "Gemini" of Santos.

Looking at São Paulo's performance in the regular season, no one thought that São Paulo would be eliminated by Santos.

Santos has the quality, but it also takes time.

Give them some time and they'll definitely grow into a strong team.

As long as young people have time, they will continue to grow and improve.

"Santos' Young Guards will definitely be a force to be reckoned with in Brazil, but this year...... It doesn't belong to them. The race preview for the newspaper Reims reads.

Not optimistic that Santos can knock out Sao Paulo.

Even São Paulo himself thinks so.

They don't believe they'll be eliminated by Santos.

The Trident is in great form at the moment and the tactics are very advanced, so what is the possibility of losing?

Whoever comes out with Kaka, Glory, or Luis Fabiano and flashes the light will be enough to solve Santos.

Santos is no longer the team that Pele was able to sweep through the state of São Paulo and the national football scene in Brazil when he played.

Ever since Bailey's departure, they've been in a slump.

The appearance of Robinho, Diego, Elano, Alex and others. It's just that now they are still too tender in front of St. Paul......

"In this game, even if it's away, I can't think of any possibility of Sao Paulo losing."

What was said in the opinion piece of the newspaper Folha de São Paulo before the game.

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The São Paulo fans who followed the team to Santos would have watched the match with a very relaxed mood.

Although now the score is 1:1 drawn.

Sao Paulo had an away goal and were dominant on the field.

There is no indication that they will lose the game.

Of course, this is the situation in the first 50 minutes of the game.

Now, fifty-one minutes into the game, the expressions of the fans in São Paulo in the stands and in front of the television have changed.

The relaxed expression had disappeared from their faces.

Instead, there was a frown.

Because there are Sao Paulo players who are injured.

It was Luis Fabiano who was injured.

The starting center forward for São Paulo lay on the ground, clutching his knee in pain.

Just seconds earlier, he had fallen to the canvas in a scramble with his opponent, slamming his right knee firmly into the ground.

And then he never got up again.

"Fabiano's expression is painful, and I think he may not be able to keep playing...... "Commentator Jerk Kafuri said.

"If Fabiano can't keep playing, it's not a simple injury for Sao Paulo, it's fatal!" Bueno's tone was even more exaggerated, as if São Paulo was going to collapse because of Fabiano's injury.

But in fact, the core meaning of what he said was not bad.

This can be seen in the expression on the face of Sao Paulo coach Osvaldo.

When Fabiano fell to the ground injured, Osvaldo stood up from the dugout, walked quickly to the sidelines, and stared nervously at the field.

Santos' players were still unsportsmanlike, and after seeing Fabiano fall to the ground, he kicked the football off the sideline, and the game was suspended, and São Paulo's team doctor, Jose Sanchez, had already run up for the first time.

At the same time, next door, Santos' head coach Emerson Leon turned around, and when everyone couldn't see it, he clenched his fists and waved his hand, not much, but hard, and the expression on his face also showed his mood - a gift from heaven!

Everyone is a person who understands, so he and Osvaldo are well aware of what Luis Fabiano's injury means.

Maybe those ordinary fans will think that Fabiano is injured at most, and the difference between the substitute striker and Fabiano's strength will reduce the quality of Sao Paulo's attack and make it more difficult for Sao Paulo to score.

But in reality, compared to the real impact, this result is simply negligible.

São Paulo was able to sweep the regular season of the Brazilian National Championship, all thanks to the front trident.

These three men accounted for two-thirds of the team's goals.

Such a simple statistic can illustrate the power of this attacking combination.

And the reason why these tridents can play so well is because they are organically connected.

It was all because of Luis Fabiano.

When Glory and Kaka were unable to cooperate because of their personal relationship, it was all up to Fabiano to act as the bond and lubricant between the two.

An attacking trident that allows the three to come together can really work as a unit.

Glory passes the football to Fabiano, and Fabiano will choose according to different situations, whether to attack himself or pass the football to his teammates, and if he passes it to his teammates, whether to pass it back to Glory or to Kaka?

It's up to Fabiano to decide.

Luckily, he's an experienced player who played at the Brazilian National Championship at the age of fifteen and has played in Europe, and most of the time he can make the right choices.

But if you change to someone else, I'm afraid you won't be able to achieve such an effect.

And most importantly, the Trident is the only one, and apart from these three, no one else can cooperate. Because when they usually train, these three people have always practiced together - in order to increase the tacit understanding of these three people as soon as possible, they only let these three people practice together, and Osvaldo didn't think about the trident mode of the others at all.

There is no way around it, there is too little time, and in order to achieve results as soon as possible, this is the only way to do it.

It's just that in this way, the risk is greater.

What happens if a player gets injured?

Now it's finally time to come......

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The people who watch the excitement don't know the way in the road, but the people who watch the door know it.

In the press room, Grayson laughed when he saw Fabiano's injury: "São Paulo is finished." ”

No one will think that he is exaggerating and grandstanding.

Because a lot of people think this way, it's just that Grayson says what they think.

Maybe his tone is not good, but it's telling the truth.

Even Coelho frowned.

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Osvaldo didn't have time to scold his mother on the sidelines, even though he wanted to.

But now it's time to rush to solve the problem.

Although no one else can replace Fabiano, they must also be replaced.

So he said to Mauro, the assistant coach next to him, "Let Reinaldo come back." ”

Reinaldo is the team's substitute striker, and he is naturally the only one who can replace Fabiano at this time.

Perhaps Reinaldo is the happiest person in the São Paulo squad right now, but he certainly didn't show his happy face – he's not that stupid.

When he was called back to the dugout by Mauro, he looked at the pitch with wistfulness.

The main striker was injured and the team was in trouble, so he came off the bench and then scored a goal to help the team win with a good performance - what a standard heroic appearance!

I will really make a name for myself with this goal, so as to replace Fabiano as the team's main center forward and reach the peak of my life!

He was so excited that he didn't even listen to what Coach Osvaldo really had to say.

Then, he was pushed onto the field.

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'Sao Paulo made a substitution, Reinaldo came on for Fabiano. For Reinaldo's appearance, it was not as he imagined, it was a feeling of a long time coming, and when the commentator mentioned his name, it seemed very flat. With that, he shifted the conversation to the impact on São Paulo after Fabiano's injury.

“…… São Paulo is in trouble and Santos' chance has come! ”

When Ricardinho saw Reinaldo coming up, he shouted at him: "Be more cooperative!" Connect! ”

Reinaldo waved his hand, signaling that he understood.

"I have a bad premonition...... Godot muttered from the stands.

The relationship between Glory and Reinaldo, he is very clear, this substitute striker has a lot of hostility towards Glory, and the blind can see it. Kaka and Glory don't deal with each other, but it's still in a competitive range, they can promote each other, and Reinaldo is completely hateful to Glory......

Now that he's on the stage, plus Kaka, can he still cooperate well with Glory?

Glory also noticed Reinaldo's appearance.

He pursed his lips.

That's not good news......