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Boca Juniors’ surprising defeat to Internacional 1-0 yesterday at La Bombonera reinforced the tendency of this Libertadores without an audience: playing at home has been a bad deal in the playoffs.
Patrick tries to escape Buffarini’s goal in Boca Juniors x Internacional for the Copa Libertadores
Image: Marcelo Endelli / Getty Images
Eighteen games have been played so far: 16 for the round of 16 and two for the quarter-finals. And of these 18 clashes, only on four occasions did the main one leave the field with victory.
In the round of 16, the matches won by the locals were Grêmio 2 to 0 Guaraní, Palmeiras 5 to 0 Delfín, Libertad 3 to 1 Jorge Wilstermann and River Plate 1 to 0 Athletico-PR. In the two quarter-final matches there were two draws.
The home team’s win rate (22.2%) is the lowest for the Libertadores in this decade, as the first 18 playoff games are always watched. The second lowest number of wins in the period comes from 2011, with six wins (33.3%).
In the Libertadores-2020, in addition to the four victories at home, there were seven draws and seven away victories (38.8%), also the highest rate of foreign victories of the decade, surpassing the six in 2018 and 2011.
During the confrontation between Boca and Inter, Diego Latorre, an Argentine ESPN commentator, analyzed in Bombonera the reasons that lead to this unusual advantage. The first reason, according to the former Boca striker, was obvious, with the lack of support from the crowd. “Today the teams play at home, and not in front of their public, as they said,” he said.
The second reason is related to the first: there is no pressure on arbitration, which works without the psychological ties that come with acting against thousands of lovers.
The third reason would be that the goal remains valid as a tiebreaker, which further frees the visitor to play in attack. In the overall 1 to 1 between Inter and Boca, the two triumphs, after all, came as visitors, with Boca 1-0 in Beira-Rio and Inter 1-0 in Buenos Aires.
The use of directors and visitors in the killer of this decade: *
2020 – 4 home wins / 7 draws / 7 away wins
2019 – 9/4/4
2018 – 9/3/6
2017 – 7/6/5
2016 – 10/6/2
2015 – 11/4/3
2014 – 9/6/3
2013 – 10/5/3
2012 – 10/7/1
2011 – 6/6/6
* Counting the first 18 games after the group stage
