Atlético Nacional is today the leader of the BetPlay League and has been enjoying a good game. Reach the round of 16 of the BetPlay Cup with the duty not to disappoint and prove why they are the best scoring team in the first division tournament of Colombian professional football. This Wednesday they will host Once Caldas, at Athanasio, for the first match of this phase. For this match, compared to the previous one, the purdolagas will be able to count on several of their regular starting players. Kevin Mier, Sebastian Gomez, Andrés Andrade, Giovanni Moreno and Dorlan Pabón, to mention a few names. The main one absent from the payroll is Emmanuel Olivera, who by technical decision was not summoned.
For its part, Once Caldas hopes to complicate things for the green team of Antioquia and will seek to surprise at Athanasius. This match is ideal for testing new players and thus refreshing the team that is in the fight for qualification to the final home runs in the league, where they are placed in the seventh place of the standings, followed closely by Alianza Petrolera and matched in points with Envigado and Bucaramanga. Manizales are aware that this cup championship is the type of tournament that allows them to try new things and thus strengthen their game for the future.
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As visitors, Blanco Blanco has won 3 victories, against Equidad, Quindio and Pereira, and 2 draws, in their most recent presentations. For its part, Nacional has lost only one home match so far this semester, to Tolima. They have 2 draws and 6 wins, and they are one of the most scoring teams with 25 goals recorded. In addition, they have the third least expired fence in the FPC. Their current aspirations lead them to compete at the highest level for all the competitions in which they participate, and that is because their roster cannot have different intentions.
By the cup, Atlético Nacional and Once Caldas have met eight times. The Greens won in six of them and the whites managed to rescue two draws. They have scored six goals for the purdolagas, while the Antioquians have conceded 19 goals. The last match between the two, within the framework of this competition, took place on November 1, 2018, with a goal from Daniel Bocanegra, minutes after the end of the match.
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The biggest result between the two came in February 2010, when Nacional thrashed Once Caldas 5-0. This is how the other games were:
March 2009 Once Caldas 0-0 Nacional
Junior 2009 Nacional 3-1 Once Caldas
February 2010 National 5-0 Once Caldas
May 2010 Once Caldas 1-2 National
February 2011 National 3-0 Once Caldas
May 2011 Once Caldas 1-2 National
October 2017 Once Caldas 0-1 National
October 2018 Once Caldas 2-2 National
November 2018 National 2-1 Once Caldas (Champion with Hernán Darío Herrera).
For today, taking into account the returning players, the possible lineup of the purslane would be as follows:
Arco: Kevin Mier
Defense: Yerson Candelo, Cristian Castro, Juan David Cabal and Alvaro Angulo
Midfield: Sebastian Gomez, Andres Andrade, Giovanni Moreno, Dorlan Pabón and Daniel Mantilla
Forward: Jefferson Duque.
The match will be broadcast, as usual, on Win+.
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