2-0: Arboleda leads Sao Paulo to a lone lead

Ang Sao Paulo beat this Thursday by 2-0 to Everton thanks to a great performance by Ecuadorian defender Robert Arboleda, who scored the first goal and provided a pass for Talles Costa to score the second, and committed to leading Group D of South American Cup.

The team from São Paulo, who last week won 3-2 on their visit to Ayacucho, now have 6 points, three points ahead of the Peruvian club, their escort, and five points against Everton and Bolivian that Jorge Wilstermann, that they closed the classification with a point.

The great star of the match on the second day of the South American group stage was Arboleda, who on Thursday completed 199 games with Sao Paulo and not only scored the first goal and gave up a pass for the second, but was temporarily restrained. . Everton’s draw in the final minutes of the first half.

The São Paulo club, which has an alternative team where starting goalkeeper Jandrei is prominent in his absence, is ill in the locker room, and Argentine forward Jonathan Calleri, the team’s scorer, has struggled to play in first minutes against 30,307 fans who attended the Morumbí stadium in Sao Paulo.

With just seven of their usual starters, the team led by coach Rogerio Ceni only had their first clear chance at goal in the 12th minute, when Arboleda headed for Reinaldo’s elevator but the ball was deflected by the defense. Chile.

Ten minutes later, on another foul called by Reinaldo, Juan was a bit caught and missed the chance to open the scoring.

But a minute later Reinaldo insisted on a lift towards the Everton area and Arboleda took advantage of a rebound to score the first goal for Sao Paulo.

Despite the fact that at that point in the game Sao Paulo was the clear dominator, with 60% possession of the ball, the team led by Argentine coach Francisco Meneghini reacted in the last minutes of the first half. and Juan Cuevas almost got the equalizer in the 35th minute with a counterattack.

In the 41st minute, Argentine striker Lucas Di Yorio, the second highest scorer in the Chilean Championship, was able to disarm goalkeeper Volpi and shoot the empty goal but omnipresent saver Arboleda prevented the equalizing goal through of cutting the ball on the line.

The Sao Paulo coach changed two forwards for two midfielders at the start of the second half by sending Patrick and Rodrigo Nestor to the field in the areas of Toró and Luciano, which slowed the team from São Paulo, leaving them almost defensive and allowed them to react to Everton.

The Chileans advanced to their scoring line and began to hit, mainly from the left, where Di Yorio joined Cuevas.

In the 65th minute, Volpi saved a powerful shot from Di Yorio and was again saved from receiving the goal as Cuevas was unable to take advantage of the rebound. Four minutes later, Arboleda again had to disarm Di Yorio when he stormed the area and Cuevas’ uprising was immediately eliminated.

In the last ten minutes, with Calleri entering, Sao Paulo was able to improve, stop the Chileans ’attack and re-create dangerous games.

The reaction came five minutes from the end of the game when Rigoni took a corner kick and Arboleda, from a nearby post, provided a back pass that allowed 19-year-old Talles Costa to score his first professional. goal for Sao Paul.

With the advantage of six goals, Sao Paulo only needed to manage the final five minutes of the game and the four substitutes, in which the Chileans fully turned on the attack, to guarantee their second victory over the South American and isolate themselves from leadership. from Group D.