After the celebration of the 108 years of the institution, those led by Alfredo Arias will go out to seek a victory that will bring them closer to the next instance of the international tournament. Statistics indicate that the sugar producers have won a match of 15 in Argentina. Tomorrow, against Vélez Sarsfield (7:30), it is expected to cut that trend.
The history does not favor Deportivo Cali much, but the greatness invites that, to break the dynamics of time. On 15 occasions the sugar producers have visited Argentine territory for Conmebol tournaments with a balance of 12 defeats, two draws and one victory.
Just one of those negative results was against Vélez Sarsfield, his rival in the round of 16 of the Copa Sudamericana 2020, in the last match that the two teams played for an international tournament. It was in the group stage of the unforgettable 1999 Copa Libertadores for the Verdiblanco team. In the first leg, where Cali was home, they won 1-0 with a goal from Martín Zapata, while in the second leg, in Argentina, the Colombians fell 3-0, in a duel in which Fernando Pandolfi and Patricio Camps, who scored a double, they shone on the field of play.
Far from that roster that would remain runner-up in the Copa Libertadores -which had players such as Rafael Dudamel, Gerardo Bedoya, Mario Alberto Yepes, Máyer Candelo, Manuel Valencia, Arley Betancourth, among others-, but that has players like David González, Juan Camilo Angulo, Agustín Palavecino, Darwin Andrade or Ángelo Rodríguez, who are up to the demands and level the club demands, Deportivo Cali by Alfredo Arias will seek to bring a good result from the José Amalfitani stadium and trust that the forces of a a squad that falls short, but has managed to stay alive in the South American and in the BetPlay League, can come out unscathed from these two crucial weeks for the objectives set since the beginning of this atypical season.
Between Copa Sudamericana, Liga BetPlay and Copa BetPlay (the latter as the only one in which the sugar team was eliminated by falling on penalties against Deportes Quindío), Alfredo Arias has 26 games, of which he has won 11, tied 12 and lost three . His performance, in accordance with the identity that the Uruguayan wanted to implement, is reflected in the phrase he said at the press conference prior to the game that will be played this Tuesday from 7:30 pm: “We will try to play as usual, Vélez is a team that tries to have possession, but our idea will always be to go out and propose ”.
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