Colo Colo will face Boca Juniors for the third date of Group F of the Copa Libertadores, in a match that could mark a before and after in the Cacique’s continental campaign. Although the Xeneizes arrive after showing their best version, the journalist Walter Safarian shows a small advantage that the Albos have.
The meeting between Colo Colo and Boca Juniors is shaping up to be the most important in the white semester. The cast of Gustavo Quinteros seeks to give the big blow in the Copa Libertadores and begin to direct their qualification to the round of 16 of the competition. The trans-Andean, meanwhile, arrive in Santiago with the desire to revalidate the victory achieved in the Argentine league and confirm the rise shown, after a tough start to the semester.
Although it is far from being a South American classic, the match between the Eternal Champion and the Xeneizes has a great history. It is that, in addition to what happened in the Battle of Macul, where a pitched fight broke out on the pitch in the 1991 semifinal, the clashes between both teams have been very even. In fact, there is parity in the record of duels, something that shows that, despite everything, Popular knows how to face this type of match.
Colo Colo’s advantage over Boca Juniors
The Argentine journalist Walter Safarian spoke exclusively with RedGol and addressed this rivalry. In the interview, the acclaimed former host of Fox Sports, referred to the classic of this match and stated that “if you go to the morbid there is the game of the famous dog in 91. Yes. And the scandal. That the truth is part of the story, and it stayed there, in the soccer file, right? That’s how it is. But let’s see None of these players, neither on one side nor on the other, have anything to do with that game, they have anything to do with that story”.
Subsequently, he deepened his analysis and gave the team led by Gustavo Quinteros a small advantage. For Safarian, “the difference is that Colo Colo has an armed team. It has a technician who has been there for a while and who, beyond having saved him from relegation at a certain moment or having been champion, has filming. And the coach has known how to choose who to reinforce and who to ask him to continue, and who to tell him you’ve come this far within the structure of the team”.
Boca Juniors is a shooting team
On the other hand, the trans-Andean communicator assured that “Almirón grabbed a team that he did not put together, with players that maybe some are not within what is the way of his game. You have to see how he considers that he is from the physical Boca, from the mental. In other words, it is not an easy game for Boca, the one from Colo Colo, because as a visitor Boca could not add. As a local he added. It is a brave group, a complicated group. It is a group where nothing can be given away. Whoever says that Colo Colo has it easy is lying. And whoever says that Boca has an affordable game is lying“.
Along with the above, he stated that the team of Almirón “is not convinced because what he has had to do is modify teams and structures because he has played four games since he arrived and since he arrived, only ten days have passed, did you see? And in ten days, four games, you don’t even have time to train, and a trip had to add concentration. This that is taking place now is the first long week without games because he took over and had to take over on a Monday: he played on Wednesday, he played on the weekend, he played again for the cup, he played again on the weekend. So he didn’t have time to train and now this is the only week he has to work on the pitch because he started playing again afterwards”.
Colo Colo and Boca Juniors share first place in the position table of Group F of the Copa Libertadores with 4 points. Thus, the commitment to be played at the Monumental Stadium starting at 8:00 p.m. this Wednesday is of vital importance for the future of the Chilean squad that seeks to qualify for the round of 16 of the continental competition.
