World football fights against the loss of time in matches and with different measures has tried to make the game more fluid. The topic came up again following what happened in the Colombia Cup semifinal between Cúcuta Deportivo and Millonarios.
In that match, there was strong criticism from the red and black fans towards Millos because, according to them, they wasted a lot of time and threw themselves on the floor, with the referee’s consent. Carlos Betancur. Embarrassing events even occurred, when local fans entered the field and tried to attack the visiting players.
Invasion of the fans in Cúcuta!
The bad loser Wilder Mosquera, coach of Cúcuta, disturbing people with his behavior. Vulgar and disrespectful to colleagues. Bad looser!pic.twitter.com/N7sR33pXij— Reporter 24/7 🎤📷 (@rogersperez) November 6, 2023
In the press conference after the game, a journalist from Cúcuta rebuked the coach Alberto Gamero. And the coach did not remain silent.
“Unfortunately, I have to answer this to you, Millonarios is one of the teams that plays the most in Colombian Soccer, the one that has been in the country for the longest time, why don’t you ask what Cúcuta did there (El Campín). Cecilia, time was burned, but it is the first time in the FPC that they make up ten minutes, it is good that it can be played, but we played 103 minutes, it is enough,” said Gamero.
“It is not a question about what Millonarios did, here, with all due respect, they replaced what they had to replace, we played and that does not worry me, my players do not pretend, I need intensity and play, this was a semifinal, to go to the final,” he added.
Millonarios, the team with the most effective playing time
This Thursday, Dimayor published a statistic, prepared by the firm Opta, which agreed with Gamero and Millonarios. The current champion is the team with the most effective playing time in the 20 rounds of the League, with an average of 56:02 minutes per game.
The ranking has surprising data. The second team with the longest time is Jaguares, which fought relegation this semester and also finished with the worst offensive average in the entire history of Colombian professional soccer. Jaguares had 55:09 minutes per game.
The third in that table was another eliminated, Deportivo Pasto (54:51). The next two will be in the finals: Junior (54:43) and Atlético Nacional (53:43).
The most surprising fact is that one of the teams most praised for its offensive play and the one that scored the most goals in the semester, América de Cali occupies the last place in the effective time table: 51:54 minutes per game.
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