Deportivo Get a Good Result.
By: Mauro | July 31st, 2008
With the incentive that they were playing at home in front of 15,000 fans and on their home ground, Universitario de Deportes needed to defend their piece. But their uninspired performance sent only the visiting side home with their heads held high.
While Universitario did have an early chance with Colombian Hector Hurtado making a break with the ball well into the Ecuadorian squad’s defense, I think they fell far short of a decent spectacle in the first half. Universitario showed to be a side who could not control the ball very well and had trouble keeping possession, two key things that could spell disaster for any side.
Now don’t get me wrong, it’s not like Deportivo Quito took advantage of the situation either. They showed to be shy with the organized attacks as well. But after the initial 15 minutes or so, Luís Saritama began pulling the strings in midfield for Deportivo, Franklin Corozo appeared up the right side breaking past the defensive line, Deportivo, with what they had, took the match to the local side. Colombian Leider Preciado also had a few chances on goal but was having an off night and failed to put his side ahead.
But overall the first half ended 0-0 and could be summed up in one word. Boring. If you missed this one, don’t worry, you didn’t miss much. If you sat through it, sorry. I hope the rest of these preliminary round matches are better than this one was. At very least, for my own sake.
The second half was more of the same. Snooze-fest. Lots of battling in the midfield and not much to show anywhere near the goalkeepers. Universitario did have the edge on almost goals, if that’s what you want to call them. The match ended at a 0-0 stalemate.
This favors Deportivo who gets the chance to close this one out at home in Quito on August 5th. Hopefully there will be more goals then. Sorry, this match was pretty obscure and I found no video of it. But don’t worry, you didn’t miss much.
I had this one going 2-1 to Deportivo. I was three goals off the mark. At the end of the day, Deportivo earned the draw and appeared to have more of an inkling of football than the home side. I was disappointed by Universitario, they are coming off winning their local title and folded like a pair of jeans in front of their home crowd.
In the meantime, feel free to check the CONMEBOL website for results and information about upcoming matches and for those of you in need of a bracket to get your heads around the competition, here it is.
Category: Preliminary Round
Tags: Copa Sudamericana, Estadio Monumental, Preliminary Round, Sociedad Deportivo Quito, Universitario de DeportesSubscribe
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I was just checking out the bracket and wondered if you know how Motagua go into the Sudamericana? I used to pull for them when I lived in Honduras, but haven’t kept up in a while?
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Hey Jeremy,
CD Motagua got into the Sudamericana because the team that was invited (Costa Rican side, Deportivo Saprissa) could not make it.Saprissa had qualified for the CONCACAF Champs League and the continental governing body refused to let them play the Sudamericana.
I believe that Saprissa qualified (or was invited) because they are the highest ranking team in the CONCACAF Champions Cup, behind Mexico’s Pachuca who failed to qualify for the Sudamericana via Mexico’s two places awarded to them by CONMEBOL.
I have had some trouble finding any documentation on how CD Motagua ended up either qualifying or being invited and that may be because they failed to qualify for the CONCACAF Champions League so that would leave them with no prior committments in CONCACAF’s eyes.
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I know they won the UNCAF club championship last year, but I didn’t know if that had any bearing on the selection.
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Well, here’s the story and I think I may have gotten it right somewhere in my last comment.
CD Motagua was the best finisher in the 2008 CONCACAF Champion’s Cup that IS NOT qualified to play in the next season’s CONCACAF Champions League. Deportivo Saprissa was invited but could not make it due to the fact that they have qualified for the 2008-09 version of said competition and CONCACAF would not allow them to participate since the calendar for the Sudamericana could conflict with the CONCACAF Champion’s League’s schedule should Saprissa advance far into the South American competition.
It still does not explain why Pachuca isn’t participating in this competition since they were winners of the 2008 CONCACAF Champion’s Cup and they are also NOT participating in next year’s CONCACAF Champions League.
I did answer your question though.
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Thanks, Mauro. And that does suck for Pachuca, a better team in my mind than Motagua (and I am more or less a Motagua fan.)
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And a Motagua team without Amado Guevara.
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