Liga Betplay: Santa Fe vs América de Cali, Bogotá won 13 times by more than three goals, statistics, trends | Colombian Soccer | Betplay League

Independiente Santa Fe only has the conviction of being able to perform the miracle in Bogotá and turn around the 3-0 he suffered against América de Cali, in the first leg of the 2020 Betplay League final.

Pros: the advantage is so wide that America could be trusted and give advantages in the height of Bogotá, closing at home is always an advantage; it’s football and anything can happen.

Cons: playing like in Cali it will not only be difficult but impossible to take the series at least to the penalty shootout; America is a great visitor, in fact away from home they ensured their presence in the final; Few feel as comfortable and supported playing in El Campín as the scarlets.

And one more can be added: the statistics speak of the great difficulty of scoring three goals against the current Colombian champion and in fact, most of the time it happened in the decades prior to 1970. Conclusion? It is not so easy to score the goals necessary for Santa Fe to turn around the win in the first leg in Cali.

The records say that, from the 90’s to the present, only three times the ‘cardinals’ scored 3 or more goals against this Sunday’s rival: on May 31, 1992 (3-0), on February 7 2000 (4-1) and on March 21, 2018 (3-0). Coincidentally, once every 18 years.

All the previous triumphs must be sought from 1971 backwards, precisely when Santa Fe, Colombia’s first champion, was one of the unstoppable.

These are the 13 wins on the scoreboard that Santa Fe will need to even the series in Sunday’s final and, at the very least, force the definition on penalties.

It means that the effort is a lot, that the demand will have to be very different from what was seen last Sunday in Pascual and that even fortune will have to do its part to turn the series around at El Campín.