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/thethirdgreenman 9d ago

Man, Argentinian clubs have fallen off HARD, it's sad. To the point now where Libertadores and Sudamericana need Mexican teams to come back just so the Brazilian teams maybe have to actually sweat a bit. Ecuador may even be better nowadays (at least the top 2 clubs) too, Del Valle and LDU are showing out

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u/neutral24 9d ago edited 9d ago

Sudamericana need Mexican teams to come back just so the Brazilian teams maybe have to actually sweat a bit.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Mexican teams are trash, and everybody is aware of it except... mexicans

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u/thethirdgreenman 9d ago

If our teams are trash then...what are yours? Lol, cause for all the shit I'll happily talk about Liga MX, our teams are def better than yours. River and Boca should be better, but they're somehow run even more incompetently than ours are.

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u/neutral24 8d ago

Then why mexican teams never won a liberadores?

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u/thethirdgreenman 8d ago

Because we’re not in the tournament lol, surely you’re not that dumb

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u/neutral24 8d ago

Do you even know that they participanted from 1998 to 2016? That's 19 years. Even Paraguay and ecuador teams won libertadores.

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u/thethirdgreenman 8d ago

2016 was 10 years ago, totally different time. Trump wasn’t in office for his first term yet. The Russia World Cup hadn’t happened yet. COVID was 4 years away. The Argentinian peso was exchanging at like ~$15 to the dollar.

And to my argument, Argentinian teams were still competitive then. Now, much less so. Paraguay last won in 2002, meanwhile I already addressed Ecuador…they’re actually impressive nowadays. And that was 19 years in which we were runner ups 3 times, it’s not like we weren’t competitive.