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With goals from Jorge Ramos and Patricio Cucchi, the lion beat Equidad and they will look for their tenth star in this BetPlay 2020 League. Tomorrow the women will play the final of the Women’s League with a 2-1 in favor.
More than happy days. Santa Fe fans are not traded for anyone. His team seeks the double in Colombian soccer with its men’s and women’s teams. The women will defend tomorrow the 2-1 in favor they obtained in Cali against America and will seek their second title in the tournament. The men, who have just qualified for the final of the 2020 BetPlay League, will be looking for the tenth star in the history of the cardinal box.
Two important novelties presented Santa Fe for the second leg for the semifinals of the BetPlay League 2020. The first of them was the absence of Leandro Castellanos, who suffered a muscle discomfort in the warm-up and had to be replaced by Ómar Rodríguez, the youth squad who has already played seven games – adding the latter – as a starter.
The second novelty, which had to do with the red card that Fabián Sambueza received in the first leg, is the return of a cardinal idol to the starter after several weeks of injury: Luis Manuel Seijas. The Venezuelan, who was absent for a month and a half, said a few days ago at the press conference that: “There is enough human material so that the team does not lose its essence, we do not depend on a single player and the teacher has always instilled in us the Same idea … Surely it will be a game stuck until the end, the message I have tried to give is that one has to transcend in the club, there are some who have not been able to get a title with the club and a tenth star is a number that it will remain in the memory of the people ”.
Regarding the inclusion of Seijas in the starter, Harold Rivera, who completed 50 games directed with Santa Fe, said in the preview that “I saw him well in practice. He is a player used to this kind of game. We want to win the commitment and we hope that at the end of the game we will be victorious ”.
A game with few spaces and a lot of calculation to violate two goals that have stood out throughout the championship for their safety. In Santa Fe they have taken the goal to zero eight times, while on the Equity side it happened six times.
As said in previous days, the record supported Santa Fe to face Equidad. In 34 games, Santa Fe has won 16: eight at El Campín and eight at Techo; they have drawn nine times and lost nine: six home and three away.
As for goals in this confrontation, the lions have scored 44 goals and Equidad 25. And as for this season, the reds have scored 37 goals that have been distributed among 14 players; On the side of the insurers, 33 goal calls were accumulated, many of them made by Matías Mier, the team’s top scorer and one of the championship’s with 10.
The first minutes were for Santa Fe. Without much clarity, the locals tried to violate the goal defended by Diego Novoa through the aerial game. Equidad knew how to defend and balanced possession a little over 15 minutes into the game.
The insistence of the cardinal box took effect in the 24th minute. A play by the left sector between Jhon Velásquez and Jorge Ramos ended in the assistance of the first and the goal of the second. His touchdown, which fueled hope for the final, is his seventh of the season.
The second half, as planned, leaned towards Equidad in the opening minutes. Insurers looked more frequently for Matías Mier and Pablo Saabag, but the home team did a good job at the brand with the largest presence of players in their area.
The game was played in the middle of the field without major risks. Both teams were approaching, but the goalkeepers were not required in the first 20 of the second half. However, Kevin Salazar, who was giving a greater volume of attack to the insurers, complied with the former’s law and scored the equalizer after a deconcentration of the cardinal defense. A left-footed shot to the right post by Omar Rodríguez led the game to a definition from the penalty spot.
Omar Rodríguez showed that he can be a starter too. The pressure doesn’t scare him. A save a few minutes after the draw saved his team from going down in the result and away from the desire for the final. The barrage of Equidad had its stop at the hands of the cardinal youth squad.
In the absence of five minutes to complete the 90th game, a quiet ball play that ended at the feet of the newly admitted Patricio Cucchi once again gave the advantage to Santa Fe and practically sentenced the classification of Santa Fe to the final of the championship. A bit that is the seal of the reds of the capital. A goal that gives them back their hope of winning a title they haven’t won since 2016.
Santa Fe will play tomorrow the final of the Women’s League and then wait for the finalist in the men’s tournament between América and Júnior, who were 0-0 in the first leg, at Pascual Guerrero.
