Atlético Nacional receives this Monday, from 8:05 p.m. at Deportivo Pasto, for the fifth date in League II-2022. The Greens, after four games without winning in the championship and a tough defeat in the Cup against Junior, need to regain confidence and prevail over a Pasto team that has been playing well and adding good results.
Coach Hernán Darío Herrera does not have four players for this match due to injury; Yerson Candelo, Juan David Cabal, Sebastián Gómez and Tomás Ángel. Yeison Guzmán absent in the Cup match against Junior, reappears in the list of summoned. Andrés Felipe Román would start for the first time with the purslane, the Bogota winger would replace Yerson Candelo.
Jefferson Duque with 95 goals in 224 games with the green shirt, is five away from reaching 100 and surpassing players like Humberto ‘Turrón’ Álvarez and Gustavo Santa, who are in third and fourth place respectively in the historical table with 99 touchdowns.
Danovis Banguero spoke about Deportivo Pasto, “I have had the opportunity to see them, they have fast, skillful, approaching players, they are orderly, they try to make a difference in defense and in attack they try to make a difference with their individualities”.
Data between Atlético Nacional and Deportivo Pasto
For the Colombian League, Atlético Nacional and Deportivo Pasto met 56 times, with 27 wins for the purslane against 15 for the Nariñenses and 14 draws. In terms of goals, the Antioquians celebrated 73 times against 49 of the Pastusos.
Atlético Nacional lost only one of its last eight matches against Deportivo Pasto in the First Division (five wins, two draws), keeping a clean sheet in five of them. The only defeat in this interval was in March 2019 (0-1 at home).
Atlético Nacional has yet to win this League II-2022 (two draws, two losses), earning only two points to date. It is the worst start of a current champion in the category, after four matches played in a tournament, since the I-2004 League (two draws, two defeats by Deportes Tolima).
Deportivo Pasto won its last away game in Liga II-2022 (0-1 vs. Jaguares de Córdoba) and is looking to string away victories in the category for the second time this year, after having chained two in April.
Atlético Nacional is the team with the most goals in Liga II-2022, with eight goals, and is also the team that has been scored the most times between the three sticks (23).
Deportivo Pasto is one of the teams in Liga II-2022 that scored the most goals in the final 15 minutes of the game (3, like Once Caldas), while Atlético Nacional is one of the teams that received the most in that part of the game (3 , such as Equity).
Nacional receives Pasto at the Atanasio Girardot. The current champion will seek to return to victory after 6 games (two draws, four losses). The last win for the purslane team was in the first leg of the I-2022 League final against Tolima (3-1, in Medellín).
The Volcanoes have won two of their last five away league games (one draw, two losses).
In the last five clashes between the two, there have been three victories for Verde de la Montaña and 2 draws.
Sergio Galván Rey with 5 goals and Jefferson Duque with 4 are the top scorers in the duels between Nacional and Pasto.
likely alignment
National Athletic: Kevin Mier; Andrew Philip Roman, Emmanuel Olivera, Christian Castro Devenish, Danovis Banguero; Alexander Mejia, Jhon Duke, Andrew Andrade; Daniel Blanket, Dorlan Peacock, Jefferson Duke. DT: Hernán Dario Herrera.
Time: 8:05 pm
Stadium: Atanasio Girardot.
Referee: Jorge Duarte (Santander).
VAR: Lisandro Castillo (Bogotá).
T.V.: WIN Sports +.
Juan Camilo Alvarez Serrano
FUTBOLRED Correspondent
Medellín
En Twitter: @juanchoserran8
