The Copa Libertadores 2024 reached the middle of its group stage. With the dispute of the third date, the favorite teams to win a qualifying spot for the round of 16 of the international tournament are beginning to emerge and the Colombian clubs do not have a positive outlook for this possibility.
Junior de Barranquilla and Millonarios are the clubs that currently serve as representatives of the FPC in the international competition most important on the continent; However, its results reflect a critical crisis of how the current model cannot give a level to clubs from other nations.
The performance of the tricolor clubs has been so regular in this Libertadores start that, according to statistics, Colombia is the penultimate country with the worst performance in the competition, barely surpassing Venezuela.
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With a total of 6 points achieved out of a possible 18, the coffee teams have a performance of only 33%, leaving a fairly big alarm about the level of competitiveness and sporting process that is carried out in the country.
Only the Venezuelan teams are worse (so far) than the Colombian ones, getting only one point out of a possible 18, thus obtaining a return of 5%.
Surprisingly and despite all the sporting stereotypes they obtain, Bolivia is the country that has shown the best performance in the first half of the group stage of the Libertadores. With Bolívar and The Strongest as representatives, Bolivians have an incredible 72% of points achieved, acquiring 13 out of 18 possible, even surpassing the Brazilians.
- Bolivia / 2 representative clubs / 13 of 18 points achieved / 72% performance
- Brazil / 6 representative clubs / 37 of 63 points achieved / 58% performance
- Argentina / 5 representative clubs / 25 of 45 points achieved / 55% performance
- Uruguay / 3 representative clubs / 13 of 27 points achieved / 48% performance
- Paraguay / 2 representative clubs / 7 of 18 points achieved / 38% performance
- Ecuador / 3 representative clubs / 10 of 27 points achieved / 37% performance
- Chile / 4 representative clubs / 13 of 36 points achieved / 36% performance
- Peru / 2 representative clubs / 6 of 18 points achieved / 33% performance
- Colombia / 2 representative clubs / 6 of 18 points achieved / 33% performance
- Venezuela / 2 representative clubs / 1 of 18 points achieved / 5% performance
Although the performance of both clubs has not been as expected, the Tiburón team has more mathematical possibilities of overcoming the group stage and settling into the Libertadores knockout stages.
Those led by Arturo Reyes closed their third round at the top of group D with five points to their name and continue to depend on themselves to advance. Nevertheless, The danger for the Barranquilleros lies in the fact that there is only a two-point difference between the first and last places in the table.
To avoid a possible complication, the rojiblancos will have to achieve two more victories, which could come against Liga de Quito and Universitario de Perú (excluding Botafogo).
For their part, the Ambassadors do not see a hopeful outlook for the contest. With only one point to his name, Millonarios is last in group E and The maximum amount of points you can get is 10, aiming to qualify as second.
For this to happen, the people of Bogotá must win all their remaining games and hope that Flamengo and Palestino fail in their remaining games.
