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Scorer of two goals in São Paulo’s 3-1 victory over Bahia, last Saturday in Salvador, for the 23rd round of the Brazilian Championship, Luciano is experiencing a great stage. In absolute numbers, he has three goals to equal the best season of his career: in 2019, by Fluminense (15) and Grêmio (5), he scored 20 goals.
In 2020, counting Grêmio (3) and São Paulo (14), Luciano scored 17 goals. But, considering the goal average, the current season is the most efficient of the attacker’s career. While in 2019 he scored 20 goals in 51 games, averaging 0.39, he now scored 17 in 40 games, 0.42 per game.
Luciano arrived in São Paulo in August, after trading with Grêmio involving Everton. And immediately, he put an end to any suspicions about his income. In Brasileirão, for example, he is in third place in the artillery, with 11 goals (he also scored another three in the Copa do Brasil).
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LUCIANO’S CAREER IN GAMES AND GOALS
| TIME | SEASON | Games | GOALS |
| Athletic-GO | 2012 | 7 | 1 |
| Hawaii | 2013 | 2. 3 | 5 |
| Hawaii | 2014 | 5 | 2 |
| Corinthians | 2014 | 47 | 13 |
| Corinthians | 2015 | 18 | 6 |
| Corinthians | 2016 | 24 | 1 |
| Leganés (Spain) | 2016/2017 | 27 | 4 |
| Panathinaikos (Greece) | 2018 | 13 | 2 |
| Fluminense | 2018 | 24 | 5 |
| Fluminense | 2019 | 31 | fifteen |
| Guild | 2019 | twenty | 5 |
| Guild | 2020 | sixteen | 3 |
| Saint Paul | 2020 | 24 | 14 |
The Tricolor forward is just behind Inter’s Thiago Galhardo with 15 goals and Santos’s Marinho with 13 goals. In the Tricolor squad, only Brenner has more goals than Luciano: 17.
The good phase of the Luciano / Brenner duo, in fact, is São Paulo’s main weapon to assume the leadership of the Brazilian Championship.
With two fewer games, São Paulo is in second place, with 41 points, one less than the leader Atlético-MG. Therefore, just one victory over the Goiás lighthouse, at 7pm on Thursday, away from home, in a late match of the first round, for Tricolor to be the leader.
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