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Came the day. Santa Fe and La Equidad meet again and this time one of the two will make the move to the final. The series is 1-1, after a tough battle in the first leg, so it will be resolved today in El Campín. The Cardinals, with the flag of being the team with the most points of the year; insurers, as the most combative, those who do not give anything for lost. An open duel in the fight to go to the final.
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Santa Fe is recognized as the best team in the championship, for the points it has in the reclassification, 44; for his 12 victories, more than all his rivals, and because he is one of the least lost, 3 games. It has a combination of order and efficiency that has been effective. In addition to being the second team with the most goals in the year, 37, behind the 41 made by Nacional. Figures and more figures accompany the campaign of the cardinal team.
“This is a supportive team and it has been compact, there is no dependency, that has made us look strong on the field and that is very important”, said the midfielder Andrés Pérez, who is the head of the cardinal midfield.
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Coach Harold Rivera has done an exceptional job since he arrived in 2019. He took Santa Fe in crisis and put him in his place, up, fighting, as a title favorite. But he needs to pass this difficult challenge first to go to the final. La Equidad is one of those teams that nobody wants to face, because it adapts to each game and each rival, because they are strong and because they fight with great conviction. It has been a silent team that was leaving rivals along the way, such as Deportivo Cali in the quarterfinals.
So La Equidad has its own thing. They are a strong team behind and in the midfield. But do not believe that it only defends itself, no, this team has 33 goals in the year, which shows its offensive capacity. In addition, he has an inspired scorer, the attacker Matías Mier, who has 10 annotations and is in his purest form. Ball that reaches the goal goes to the goal and almost always with danger. Mier is well surrounded, men like Stalin Motta or Pablo Sabbag also contribute a lot in the attack.
The attacker Matías Mier (left)
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“We know that we are not favorites, they have not given us anything. The secret of this team is how we work, how united we are, we have no problems with each other, we are all happy and the goal is the group first before anything else, that’s the key, “Sabbag said on ESPN.
Sambueza, the absence
Regarding the first leg, the big news for today’s match is that Fabián Sambueza will not be there. And that is a huge problem for Santa Fe and a huge advantage for La Equidad, since he is the best cardinal player, the brain, the one with the imbalance. The Argentine was expelled in the first leg, in a decision that generated a lot of noise, even with the cardinals’ request that the disciplinary committee annul the red one. Which did not happen. They gave him a date.
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In any case, Santa Fe trusts the rest of the squad, in men who are at a high level like Jhon Velásquez, who has three goals, all scored in this final stage (two to Pasto in the quarterfinals and one to La Equidad in the semifinal) . He is a very talented player and called to be the team’s guide today. Kelvin Osorio, a key piece in Rivera’s idea, has also stood out. In the absence of Sambueza, his place could be taken by Mauricio Gómez, although Luis Manuel Seijas has already recovered and awaits an opportunity.
“It will be a very similar match to the first leg; the theme of the place, now without an audience and being both from the same city, does not influence much, but at home we have a responsibility, with the people who are not in the stadium but who are out there, ”said Seijas.
In La Equidad, meanwhile, they celebrate the return of their sanctioned, Mahecha and Torralvo. Little by little, Alexis García’s team has been recovering from so many absences it has had and is finally complete, just for its most definitive game of the year. The day came for reds and greens, with a place in the final at stake.
Time: 7:30 pm
TV: Win +
Referee: Wílmar Roldán
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