In the middle of a semester that began with a storm, Santa Fe is increasingly calm, with the Copa Sudamericana as the tournament in which he is most comfortable. Already the victory against Águilas Doradas, which put him into the group stage, calmed the waters and prevented the departure of the coach. And now, the reds took their first away point in the group stage, a valuable 0-0 against Goias.
Santa Fe’s bet on some youngsters from the minor divisions gave him good results in Brazil, where his rival, Goias, seemed to have more head in the state championship, where 48 hours earlier he lost 2-0 against Atlético Goianense in the first leg of the final.
It wasn’t a great game, but the reds didn’t have much trouble. Goalkeeper Juan Daniel Espitia, who was barely playing his second game with Santa Fe after coach Harold Rivera’s decision not to bring José Silva even as a substitute, had another 90 quiet minutes, as he had already had in his debut on Friday against Boyacá Chicó, who did not even shoot him on goal. This time, the demand increased a bit, but Espitia responded.
Santa Fe, which did not create much danger in the first stage, only caused a scare with a shot from Hugo Rodallega from outside the area that passed near the post. He did not take direct shots at the goal in the first period.
As the minutes passed, Santa Fe began to notice that he could do a little more damage, he began to play further away from Espitia and closer to the Goias area, but without being able to do much damage. The team repeated itself too much on the right, but the Brazilians controlled it well.
The bad news for the reds was the departure, at the end of the game, of José Enamorado, one of the team’s most important players in recent games, who came out on a stretcher and who, at the close of this edition, was unknown. a physical condition report.
Even Santa Fe was emboldened and at the end of the game, Wilson Morelo, who entered for Enamorado, had the clearest of the game for León, with a shot that went wide.
Santa Fe will have to wait two weeks for its next one in the Cup: it will receive Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata on April 18, at 9 pm For now, a good start.
Jose Orlando Ascencio
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