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Santa Fe will have to play against history to seek the comeback and get the tenth star. The 3-0 in the first leg of the final against América de Cali was a hard blow for the team, which is now getting ready to try to straighten the way, on Sunday in El Campín.
“We can no longer go back, we have to look forward and think about Sunday, at our house, to equalize the series or overcome it … We have been working for a long time on what is the emotional part, this week is more of the same, to work, to improve and to review the team and the approach ”, declared coach Harold Rivera after the win in Cali.
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In the history of Colombian soccer, a difference of three or more goals has never been traced in a final. This circumstance occurred three times in short tournaments. The first, in the second half of 2004. Junior took a 3-0 lead against Nacional in Barranquilla. In Medellín he was two minutes away from losing everything, but a goal from Walter Ribonetto left the game 5-2 and took the final to the penalty spot. There, the sharks got their fifth crown.
National Final vs. Junior in 2004.
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In the second semester of 2007, the surprising Equidad, who had been last in his debut in the A, reached the final, but Nacional passed him over: he lost 0-3 in El Campín and in Medellín, the game was pending : 0-0 and star for the team then led by Oscar Héctor Quintabani.
Sergio Galván celebrates one of Nacional’s goals to Equidad in the 2007-II final.
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Medellín came close to taking the 2018-II League final to penalties after losing 4-1 to Junior in Barranquilla. He lacked a goal: he got 2-0 up, Yony González discounted at 71 and Germán Ezequiel Cano made it 3-1 at 80. Junior, who was exhausted after losing the final of the South American Cup with Atlético Paranaense, held on as he could and got the title.
Yony González’s celebration in the final against Medellín in 2018.
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Between Liga and Copa Colombia, only on two occasions of the 24 in which there were three or more goals difference in the first match did the winner of that game qualify. The first, in the semifinal of the League 2011-II. Junior, who had lost 3-0 with Millonarios in El Campín, won by the same score in Barranquilla and qualified in the tiebreaker from the white point.
“A few weeks before, Millonarios had eliminated us from the Cup: we lost 4-1 in Bogotá and in Barranquilla we went 0-0. Unlike the other game, when the semifinal ended in El Campín, we looked at each other in the dressing room and said of one that we were going to try. Not that we were going to overcome it, but that we were going to try ”, recalled the then Junior coach, José ‘Cheché’ Hernández.
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The second was in the 2012 Colombian Cup, in the quarterfinals. Tolima had lost 4-1 to Itagüí and in Ibagué he won by the same score. He won on penalties.
Santa Fe and Rivera already experienced this same circumstance last year, in the round of 16 of the Colombia Cup. They had lost 3-0 to Nacional in Medellín. In Bogotá they lacked a goal to tie. Now they want to turn it around.
JOSÉ ORLANDO ASCENCIO
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