Opinion: Arnaldo Ribeiro: São Paulo strong at home is Ceni’s great brand in 2022

The controversy with the refereeing due to the penalty scored ended up leaving in the background the mark maintained by São Paulo in the 2-1 victory over Cuiabá last Sunday (15), when Rogério Ceni’s team increased its good streak of games as principal to get closer to the leaders of the Brasileirão.

on the podcast Ball Possession #228Arnaldo Ribeiro says that São Paulo presented aspects that draw attention, such as the performance without a defensive midfielder during the second half and reinforced the brand of a team that is difficult to beat when playing at Morumbi.

“São Paulo had some interesting things in yesterday’s match, Rogério took several risks, played without a defensive midfielder in the final part of the game, from the second stage, with 11 against 11, losing, played with three midfielders, three forwards, in the end of the match he played with only one defender, Arboleda, who, by the way, played a monstrous match. Did he show repertoire?, says Arnaldo.

“In the second half with more creativity and all the changes he made paid off, all the players started well in the match. São Paulo manages to maintain this home series with victories, which I think is the great mark of Rogério’s work in 2022, São Paulo became strong playing as home team and has not yet become strong playing as a visitor, which means that São Paulo still doesn’t have a concrete prospect of achievements, but it has improved a little away from home, now it has a series indoors?, complete.

Another aspect highlighted by the journalist is in relation to players who were not doing well and managed to take advantage of the space they had in the match, cases of Nikão and André Anderson.

“São Paulo continues to play well inside Morumbi, not as well as it was at the end of Paulista, but it continues to play well and some players who were completely forgotten gave the air of grace on Sunday, as is the case of Nikão, who made a goal, and this new signing from São Paulo, André Anderson, who came from Italy and was a good replacement at halftime by Rogério”, he concludes.

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