Overview

• Vasco da Gama routed Santos 6-0 at Vila Belmiro, with Lucas Piton opening the scoring before Phillipe Coutinho struck twice and David Correa De Fonseca, Rayan and Danilo Neves added late goals.
• Santos immediately dismissed head coach Cléber Xavier after the defeat and issued a statement wishing him well in his future career.
• Neymar, who renewed his contract in June, was overcome with emotion at full-time and publicly lamented the team’s performance as an “extreme shame.”
• Coutinho’s brace underlined his immediate influence since joining Vasco this summer and catalyzed their surge above the Serie A relegation zone.
• The result lifted Vasco out of the relegation zone, leaving them two points adrift of Santos in 15th place and intensifying scrutiny on their faltering campaign.