The coaches warmed the previous

The Santa Fe de Jorge Bava is measured with the Alejandro Restrepo Medellín in the final.

Photo: Santa Fe and Medellín

A few hours after the ball rolls at the Atanasio Girardot, the coaches Santa Fe and Independiente Medellín spoke at a press conference about what it means to dispute the Betplay League final.

Jorge Bava, Alejandro Restrepo and Cardinal midfielder Daniel Torres, of the Cardinal Table, shared their expectations, reviewed the previous work and reflected on the deep sense of this type of matches.

The tension is felt, but also mutual respect and conviction that everything will be defined in details.

“Santa Fe characterizes the claw and heart”: Jorge Bava

Jorge Bava, coach of the Bogota team, confirmed that Ewil Murillo, who had ended with discomfort after the first leg, could be on the final payroll: “We summon it because it had a great postpartid evolution. All those who came are suitable for playing. We still do not define the team, but it is a possibility.” Santa Fe recovers an important piece and the coach did not hide his satisfaction for having the entire squad available.

On the character of the team that has run for just three months, Bava was emphatic: “If there is something that characterizes the history of Santa Fe, beyond football and good players, it is a claw and heart. That has manifested throughout the tournament, we have fallen and we have risen. We suffered together. This is the idiosyncrasy of this club. When one arrives at a place as a coach, this coach can not be paid. It is a team with claw and heart, which fights until the end, thus demonstrated in the championship. ”

He also acknowledged that the first leg left important lessons. “We are going to rely on what happened the other day to improve. You have to be cautious. They were a few days of work, but very good. It will be a playing and difficult game, as the first, more considering that it is the decisive final. We will try to take advantage of our moments and minimize the moments of the rival,” warned the Uruguayan.

When talking about the opponent, Bava paid special attention to the attackers Brayan León and Léider Berrio, who generated the clearest chances for the DIM in the Campín. “They are two important players in the rival's attack, they did it well throughout the tournament. We worked to minimize them, not only to them but to the whole rival. He is a rival of a lot of hierarchy. We try to improve aspects so that these players do not shine,” he said.

On the figure of the first leg, goalkeeper Andrés Mosquera Marmolejo, Bava was clear: “It is a pride to have it in our ranks, he is a leader of our team, both on and off the court. It is a plus because the areas are defining and he brings us closer to what we all want, which is victory.”

He also made it clear that the team has practiced the penalties: “In case it is resolved like this, we hope it is for us. We train all the possibilities that may arise in a game. It is impossible to take it to a real situation, but we try to work on those situations.”

Daniel Torres, one of the leaders on the court, also referred to what a new final represents. “Happy to be here again. The more times I can be, the more opportunities I will have to obtain titles. I face this final as all the finals I have been able to dispute. I hope to have a different result from the last three, which is like that of the other six,” he said.

He added: “Much respect for the team that I am going to face already its people, but I have the responsibility and duty to defend the colors of Independiente Santa Fe. If they asked me who I wanted to face I would not have said Medellín, but I have it in front and it is the rival to beat to give the tenth star to Santa Fe.”

Torres also highlighted the role of the fans on the way to the title: “We understood that United was the form and that together we had to go the way. When we understood it, Santa Fe went forward with the support of its people who have claw and heart. We thank you for the accompaniment and they have realized that they are important from the union and the backing.”

On tonight's rival, the midfielder was clear: “The difficulty part of the good team that is and strengthens with its people. We will try that this strength becomes a weakness for them, being able to strengthen and get victory and title.” And he closed his speech with a recognition to his coach: “To obtain titles it is important who surrounds you. The teacher has an extraordinary work group that covers all the areas and has made the team strengthen to be here, with the illusion of obtaining the title.”

“There are no favorites”: Alejandro Restrepo

In the other corner, Alejandro Restrepo, technician of Medellín, spoke serenity about the strengths of his team, especially the midfield: “We have a very good midfield, a few months ago I spoke with a benchmark of another club and told me that as I was going to do with six or seven flyers that told me that they were the best recuperators and ending. We always have those conversations of who should go, who is better. one alone.

On the duel with Santa Fe, Restrepo insisted that there are no favorites: “I said it at the press conference of the first leg, for me there are no favorites. The distance in the table was one or two points, there is a lot even ”.

For the coach of Antioqueño, the emotional weight of the moment is also key: “In the first press conference when they presented me, I said that the most important game is always the coming. It is the most important match of the club in the last year and a half because a final year and a half ago I was also living a final. In Pereira I realized that this club has a wonderful fan, I am from this land and I know the passion of the 'paisas' Help of these wonderful people are surely up to look for that title. ”

Restrepo also responded to doubts about the streak of the club's lost endings. “In the end, the story is to break. Nobody in the team is looking back, nobody is looking at statistics, not even the closest ones. Today they are all behind, many players have uploaded their level, they have managed to find their space within a game idea, that leads to the team playing well. Tomorrow we will look for it with our tools, with a lot of pundonor and with the breath of our people.”

As for 0-0 in the first leg and the lack of goal, the DT of the DIM said: “The fan has to trust tomorrow, it is a final and in matches like this the statistics, the numbers pass to the background. They are to break, to change it … the team made some big home runs, was the team that marked the most. There is that winning mentality, those desire to win.

And to close, a call to attention and concentration: “These matches are of details, we have delivered the tools, the information to the players. It is a match that will be played with tension, attentive to those details, to the virtues of the rival. Understand that they are also strong, we must be defensively solid and take care of our arch. Santa Fe is an intense team, with experience players that know what their role is. Competitive, intense and with a lot of strategy.

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