Sao Paulo's second goal showed their positional prowess.

After defusing an attack by Cali America, seeing that the opponent returned quickly, the people in front of Sao Paulo were stared at and there was no chance to counterattack, Lugano took two steps with the ball, and then made a short pass to Ricardinho, who retreated to get the ball.

América Cali winger Villarreal and forward midfielder Pacos Ferreira immediately pressed Ricardinho on the left and right.

Ricardinho simply didn't stop the ball, immediately pushed the ball to Gian, and turned and ran forward. Gian handed the ball to Ricardo, who took two steps and saw no chance, and passed to Ricardinho, who had already run out of space.

Ricardinho took the ball and observed, dodged Ferreira's tackle and passed the ball to Kaka.

Next came the turn of the Trident to perform.

Kaka took the ball and wiped it, galloping, smoothly past the opponent's back Ferrari, at this time Angulo also came to help defend, Kaka did not stick the ball too much, and quickly sent the ball to Luis who retreated to receive it. Fabiano.

Fabiano did not stop the ball, turned his back to the goal, swept the ball directly to his right, and Ricardo, who was inserted at high speed, received the ball smoothly, but soon faced Gonzalez's pressing.

He pedaled twice, but Gonzalez didn't get shaken off.

If he was determined to break through, Ricardo was confident that he would be able to break through the opponent's defense, but in that case, the defense of Cali America took shape, and he delayed the opportunity to attack, so he immediately crossed the ball to Kaka.

Kaka acted as a "wall" this time, and immediately made a diagonal pass after receiving the ball without stopping, and Ricardo took advantage of his speed to get rid of Gonzalez's entanglement and successfully received the ball.

But when he tried to pass the ball again, he found that Fabiano was firmly watched, and Kaka was followed by someone who had broken into the box, followed by Bastos of América Cali.

However, he saw that Simpricio on the right had already assisted, and there was an open area in front of him, so he suddenly made a sharp stop, Gonzalez chased after him, and took advantage of the gap to transfer the ball to the right with a big foot.

Due to the limitations of the broadcast view, the Brazilian commentator was puzzled by the ball: "Ricardo passes! It seemed that there was a mistake and there was no player from Sao Paulo in that direction. ”

"Oh, Simplicio is on camera! He's plugged in at high speed! He's got the ball! Keep pushing with the ball! ”

However, Ferrari quickly left Kaka behind and went to defend Simplisio. Simplicio didn't try to pass on his own, and when he spotted his opponent approaching, he immediately pushed the ball forward, and Rico had already run out of the box to pick up and bring Bastos out.

Rico was very clever with the ball, he made a gesture to catch the ball with his left foot, but he missed the situation, the ball rolled towards the baseline, he used his speed to force a force to overtake Bastos, glanced at the situation in the box, and immediately crossed with his feet.

He passed the ball high and floating, the defenders of Cali America could not reach it, and the goalkeeper Zapata did not dare to rush out to pick up the ball, Kaka, who outflanked the front point, and Fabiano, who received in the middle, all jumped, but they couldn't touch the football.

The ball spun and flew towards the back post.

A figure wearing a white background and red and black horizontal striped jersey in São Paulo broke free from Gonzalez's entanglement, and a lunge stepped forward and leaped to the top.

Zappata, despite stretching his arms as best he could, was unable to touch the football.

The soccer ball crashed headlong into the net, sending up a burst of white waves.

At this moment, the cheers, curses, boos, and singing on the court all stopped, like in a noisy classroom, and the head teacher suddenly walked in. In the quiet air, there seemed to be a porcelain falling and making a crisp cracking sound.

It was the hearts of the América de Cali fans that were broken.

"Rico crosses! Licardo heads the goal! goallllllllllll！ In the 31st minute of the game, Licardo scored twice, and Sao Paulo, who was away from home, led 2:0! ”

Ricardo was excited, but this time he didn't cut his throat again, and he didn't want to be sent off early.

He just took off his shirt and ran wildly, jumping over billboards and standing at the barbed wire fence in the stands to show off his muscles to the fans of América de Cali.

You don't have to get a yellow card.

So far, at least, the referee has not shown a yellow card for the stripping celebration. Especially in South America, where wild beauty is a part of football, referees don't do anything that bad.

It wasn't until February 2004 that the yellow card requirement to be shown when the shirt was removed and the yellow card was required to run with the head covered in the jersey.

Enter Pascual. Although there are only a few hundred São Paulo fans at the Guerrero Stadium, their singing can still break through the boos of the América de Cali fans and reach the ears of Ricardo.

"Licardo, dear God-given son, you have our love!"

"You can always please us with goals!"

"Glorious God-given son, oh Riccardo!"

This song made Ricardo forget his exhaustion!

Trailing 2-0 at home, América de Cali had no choice but to launch another onslaught. However, this only gave São Paulo a comfortable chance to counter-attack.

In the 56th minute of the second half, Ricardo once again took advantage of the counterattack opportunity to ride alone, and after connecting the opponents, he knocked the ball to Fabiano in the penalty area and assisted the latter to score.

Just three minutes later, Sao Paulo counter-attacked again, Ricardo broke through the line and knocked the ball back to Kaka, who crossed the ball and Ricardinho calmly fired into the bottom left corner from the top of the arc.

Subsequently, Kaka and Licardo were substituted one after another. But Sao Paulo's goalscoring performance didn't end there, and in the 79th minute, substitute Elton scored his first professional goal.

América Cali only scored a face-saving goal in stoppage time.

After the game was accepted, in the home team's locker room, the players of the América de Cali did not dare to come out one by one. Their head coach Lozada is watching an analysis of the match written by the assistant coach, which includes comments on players in various positions in Sao Paulo, which will help him to better command the second leg between the two sides.

For example, for Kaka, the assistant coach wrote: fast speed, poor physical confrontation ability, good technique, can control the ball perfectly at high speed, counterattack is very threatening, long-range shooting ability is very strong, passing skills are also very good, can make a fatal pass.

As for Ricardo, it is described as follows: extremely fast, slightly stronger than Kaka, quite good technique, excellent ball control, superb technique in small areas, good organizational skills, good passing and scheduling, good long-range shooting skills, good headers, keen sense of smell in front of goal, first-class marksmanship......

Lozada shook his head, pointing to the description of Ricardo, and said, "There is no need to write so much, and it is not accurate enough. ”

The assistant coach looked at him puzzled: "Sir? ”

"It's enough to describe him in one sentence," Lozada said sadly, "a genius who comes once in 20 years." ”