Verde paisa drew goallessly at El Campín, in a very short game with few chances in goal.
The first game of the 2023 Copa Libertadores for Atlético Nacional is next Wednesday against Patronato, away from Santa Fe. A club, the Argentinian, from the second division, sixteenth in the standings at least until tomorrow, will play against Deportivo Morón, which has only two victories in nine games played this year. Under this scenario and knowing that he will have a two-time US champion in front of him, it is likely that the board will resort to a strategy similar to Equidad’s in El Campín tonight.
A very short game, with a team that plays little and plays much less, as the strong defense tactics are added by almost always cutting with an offense. And so the cycle: cut, stop, slow down, slow down. A team that, despite some absentees such as Candelo, Deossa, Pabón and Jader, did not get a hold of Nacional in 95 minutes and was only able to complete the goal twice. A team, Equidad, that could give him several clues about what to expect with Brigadier General Estanislao López.
And that’s where Autuori will have to work the most, to get the team out of the offensive plateau it usually falls into in matches, in the few variants, even if the names are different, by having several keys for the same lock, because otherwise On the contrary, little or nothing will help you to have more than 50 or 60% holdings as happened on this date.
And while a draw as a visitor in Libertadores can be positive due to the size of the event, the reality of the opponent leads the Antioquians to think about the three points, as there will undoubtedly be a one-on-one with Olimpia for first place in group H and there is no better way to start the competition than by winning and then trying to make the difference at home in the double against Melgar and the Paraguayan.
Nacional is four days from starting to show what it has been working for with Autuori over the past six months, said the coach himself, who set the estimated deadline at the start of the cup to see a team strongly identified is with its concepts, principles and ideas. . Nacional is four days away from giving signs as to why it’s in his beloved Libertadores.
Source: Goal