The Colombian championship system allows these things: that the team that gets the most points throughout the tournament is not the champion. And that happened again to Santa Fe, who scored 48 points in 2020, but had to settle for the runner-up and with the return to the group stage of the Liberators cup. But the main objective, to get the tenth star, remains pending.
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“The balance is positive wherever you look at it. We were the best team we made 50 points, but, unfortunately, the goal that we had set for ourselves, the tenth star, we could not achieve ”, said DT Harold Rivera.
It is difficult for the Reds in the finals against the big teams. In the short tournaments he has played seven finals. Won three: a Pasto (2012-I), Medellín (2014-II) and Tolima (2016-II).
The peculiarity is that the four he lost were against the teams that have the most stars in Colombian football: two against Atlético Nacional, in 2005-I and 2013-I; one against Millionaires, in 2017-II, and this one against America.
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In the long run, a bad game ended up costing the star Santa Fe: It was the defeat in the first leg against America, a 3-0 that was impossible to lift, despite the enormous effort made by the team, especially in the last ten minutes of the first half.
“We lost four games throughout the year and that shows what the team was like throughout the championship. But we lost on the last date the match that we should not lose and by a marker that was a bit long. Today the team put America in a goal, I take my hat off to the players. In the second half, we may not find the way, and they retreated, ”added Rivera.
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