Independiente Santa Fe had a good performance for 80 minutes in which they tried to attack, but ran into a Uruguayan wall like Mario Sebastián Viera who stopped everything. The last ten minutes, with the expulsion of Harold Rivera, made huge mistakes that allowed Junior to open the scoring and lead the series.
In FUTBOLRED we analyze the defeat and elimination of Santa Fe:
He took advantage of the state of the gramado: From the first minute, Matías Mier had it clear: play on a rainy and wet playing field. With the characteristic of the Uruguayan, he sought to harm his compatriot’s goal with long shots that went wide and saves by Sebastián Viera, who looked perfectly.
It was protected with mixed payroll: a huge mistake by Grigori Méndez without having anything defined yet in his classification for home runs, why not fight the two classifications? Leandro Castellanos gave his place to José Silva, who did not have many problems, but in plays his insecurity was noticed cutting off a cross from Fredy Hinestroza that left Edwuin Cetré the option of opening the scoring, and in the goal he could have left your porch to cut.
Santiago Tamayo played on the right, where Edwin Herrera did not appear in the call. Carlos Sánchez was not summoned and was in the stands leaving his place for Leonardo Pico after very few minutes played. Fernando Coniglio was the starter over Wilson Morelo, who will surely start against Once Caldas. Nor did Neyder Moreno enter the list, who has shown good feelings in recent league games. In short, he preferred to leave his best cards to fight for the BetPlay League.
With the obligation, he did not give up: Santa Fe handled the engagement strings for much of the 90 minutes. He was able to open the scoring quickly, taking advantage of Matías Mier’s long shots and taking advantage of the disorder in Junior de Barranquilla’s midfield. Sebastián Viera cleared everything saving the zeros on the scoreboard.
They ran into a guardian like Sebastián Viera who chased away the danger for most of the match. They incessantly sought to break the zeros with that obligation they had at home.
Fernando Coniglio good feelings: the first part Coniglio had great passages with the ball, getting between the two central defenders of Junior, Jorge Arias and Daniel Rosero and teaming up with Matías Mier and Jhon Velásquez who were the links. He had an individual play down the baseline crossing and the visiting defensive back cleared. Later he had a shot in front of Sebastián Viera that he saved.
Matías Mier, the figure: Taking out Mario Sebastián Viera, who was chosen as the player of the match, Matías was in charge of being the central axis through which Santa Fe passed the ball. His shots were important, and his executions too. He was selfish on some long free kicks with the bow always on his head.
The expulsion returned: With five minutes on the pitch, Harold Rivera earned the first yellow card. He could only spend eight minutes on the field of play due to another infraction, helping with defensive tasks, cutting Luis González’s counterattack. Second yellow and from that red card, Santa Fe was completely unbalanced. Junior turned to the attack and found the only goal of the game.
