With two more dates to play, several clubs are still fighting to achieve their different goals for the following season.
In the absence of two dates to finish the second stage of LigaPro and the Ecuadorian soccer regular season, several clubs are fighting to achieve their different objectives for the following season.
The only concrete thing that exists in the Ecuadorian championship after the end of date 13 is that Olmedo is already condemned to play Serie B next year and that Emelec is in an eventual final and classified to the group stage of the Copa Libertadores 2022, as is Independiente del Valle. The others still need both parties to know their future.
Focusing only in the second stage, the unknown remains which team will be proclaimed the winner, being three the only ones that remain in the fight Independiente del Valle, solo leader with 30 points (+19), Emelec, second with 27 (+12) and October 9, also third with 27 (+10).
This is the position table of the second stage of LigaPro after the victory of Nueve de Octubre in Manta
The striped ones are the candidates to win the stage, allowing him to play a final, having three points difference and more goals in favor than his pursuers. His main challenge will be on date 14, when he faces Emelec in Quito, a match that could define the winner of the phase or keep him even more even than he is, if October 9 beats Delfín.
Taking into account the accumulated table, the fight opens on different edges: which clubs will classify Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana, and who will accompany Olmedo to the Series B of the championship.
For the Libertadores, Conmebol grants four places to Ecuadorian clubs: two to the group stage and two to previous rounds. Emelec has secured its place in the group stage by winning the first stage and Independiente another, being second in the accumulated with 57 points, seven more than the Catholic University, although without knowing if it is a preliminary or direct phase, since there is still no winner of the second phase.
The other two places would be disputed by three clubs: La Católica, third with 50 points (+18); Barcelona SC, fourth with 49 points (+18) and October 9, fifth with 47 points (+11). The three clubs depend on themselves to achieve the objective, since they will have direct confrontations: Católica vs. Barcelona SC (date 14) and October 9 vs. Catholic (date 15).
As in the Libertadores, the governing body of South American football offers four places for the Copa Sudamericana. October 9 and Liga de Quito are already classified by maintaining a difference of more than six points with the eighth of the accumulated table, the last position that can access a ticket.
The fight for the last two places will be between Aucas, seventh with 39 points (+7), Mushuc Runa, eighth with 38 (+1), and Delfín, ninth with 37 (-3). The ponchito and the cetaceans will define one of the quotas on the last date, when they meet at the Jocay stadium.
Finally, Manta, Guayaquil City and Orense are the three teams that are still in dispute for not relegation. The tuna boats are the ones that would be going down to Serie B, being in 15th place with 25 points (-16). But salvation is only two points away, with City in 14th place (27 and -20) and with Orense in 13th box (27 and -11).
The LigaPro calendar will resume on Friday, November 19, due to the stoppage of teams due to the FIFA date. Neither days nor hours of the matches of date 15 have been defined yet.
Date 14 of the second phase of LigaPro
- November 19th – Aucas vs. Macara – Gonzalo Pozo Ripalda stadium.
- November 20 – Orense vs. League of Quito – 9 de Mayo stadium.
- November 20 – Manta FC vs. Olmedo – Jocay stadium.
- November 20 – Mushuc Runa vs. Guayaquil City – Echaleche stadium.
- November 21 – Independent of the Valley vs. Emelec – Banco Guayaquil stadium.
- November 21 – Barcelona SC vs. Catholic University – Monumental Banco Pichincha stadium.
- November 21 – October 9 vs. Dolphin – Alberto Spencer stadium.
- November 22th – University Technician vs. Deportivo Cuenca – Bellavista stadium in Ambato.
Date 15 of the second phase of LigaPro
- Emelec vs. Blanket FC – George Capwell Stadium.
- Deportivo Cuenca vs. Independent of the Valley – Alejandro Serrano Aguilar stadium.
- Catholic University vs. October 9 – Atahualpa Olympic Stadium.
- Macara vs. Barcelona SC – Bellavista stadium in Ambato.
- Quito League vs. University technician – Rodrigo Paz Delgado stadium.
- Olmedo vs. Pray – Riobamba Olympic Stadium.
- Delfín vs. Mushuc Runa – Jocay stadium.
- Guayaquil City vs. Aucas – Christian Benítez stadium. (D)
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