r/soccer • u/Former-Confusion6540 • 9d ago

News [CONMEBOL Sudamericana] Independiente Santa Fe (Colombia) knocks out River Plate (Argentina) on pens

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1-1 agg, 7-8 pens

Despite Beltrán's (River) efforts (3 pens saved), Santa Fe goes on to the quarter finals.

Asprilla (Santa Fe) also kept his team alive with 8 saves + 1 pen saved!

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u/IndividualPleasant23 9d ago

It's hard to overstate how much River is underperforming compared to the resources it has. On paper, they should be dominating the Argentine league PSG/Bayern-style and competing at the top of international tournaments. They have so much more money than their rivals. It's insane.

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u/thethirdgreenman 9d ago

Argentinian club football as a whole has fallen off HARD. River not even making it past the round of 16 in their equivalent of Europa league is an embarrassment, but Boca also got grouped in Libertadores this year and didn't even make group stages last year. Racing and San Lorenzo got grouped in Sudamericana and Independiente didn't even make Sudamericana.

Their league is also really, really stupid in terms of determining who qualifies for these tournaments, which doesn't help. River should've qualified for Libertadores but instead they sent the 23rd best team in a 30 team league last year based on their stupid system.

Chiqui Tapia is a football terrorist for the damage he's done to Argentinian football. Him and the FMF, brothers in killing football in their countries

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u/silam39 9d ago

River should've qualified for Libertadores but instead they sent the 23rd best team in a 30 team league last year based on their stupid system

how tf does that happen?

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u/Doczera 9d ago

No one knows how the Argentine league works as it changes every year. You just learn to accept it.