22:30 The Strongest – Club Sport Emelec

Copa Libertadores, 5. round

The Strongest is really one of the strongest team when playing at home pitch. Their home is in La Paz, at 3600 meters of altitude and their opponents find very hard to play there.
In CL group they are currently standing on 3. place and they must win this one to have chance to advance. As their guest performaces are very bad, this is game where they should look for win. At home pitch they have 9 wins in row and 12 wins in last 15 matches. In 6 last matches home they score 3 or even more goals. That is fantastic. In CL they have 8 wins in row during last 2 whole years without single point loss.
In this match they are without P.Escobar, important midfield player and team captain.

Emelec is good team in Ecuador. They stand on 3. place with chance to be better. In CL also performing well this year, they are 1. currently, but point difference between teams are really small. Emelec is really nothing special when playing away.
For this match they have very big problems with players. At this moment P. Quinonez, J.Quinonez, Burbano, Bolanos and Lastra are not available for different reasons. All of them take part in 3:0 win over The Strongest in last round.

In much different circumstanses Ecuadorians does not stand chance in this match IMO. GL.