After the heavy failure suffered in the local match against Barcelona SC (1-0), Liga de Quito turns its sights to the Copa Sudamericana, the tournament in which it leads Group A, a position it will try to defend on the second date against the Chilean Magallanes.

Different fortunes for the two teams at the start of the international tournament. As a guest, the league beat the Peruvian César Vallejo (2-1), while the Chileans could not do so at home and drew with the Brazilian Botafogo 2-2.

Albos defeat in the Pro League angered their fans, who during the game against Barcelona caused incidents in the Casa Blanca stands, which led to a ban on playing with the public in the domestic tournament for the next two days as local.

With Saturday’s failure, the expectations of the cup match against Magallanes also fell, which will not have a good presence in the public, which is a sign of a bad moment in the relationship between the club and the fans.

Magallanes’s present is not the best either after another defeat in the Chilean tournament, with 2:0 at Everton, a result that takes Nicolás Núñez’s team to third place from the bottom of the table with eight points from 10 games. (D)