Pre-Libertadores: See what the draw will look like on Monday and potential competitors from America – MG and Fluminense | Editors
4 min readLibertadores starts Monday for América-MG and Fluminense. CONMEBOL will pull the matches of the first three stages of the tournament for the teams that aspire to the last eight places in the group stage. The event, which takes place at the Federation headquarters in Luc, Paraguay, is scheduled for 12:20 pm (GMT), after the draw for the Copa Sudamericana.
America – MG and Fluminense They enter directly into the second stage and are in different receptacles in the clouds depending on their position in the order of the CONMEBOL. Tricolor (30th in the South American club rankings), is in Pot 1, which will have the advantage of making the second playoff match at home. Coelho, who is making his first Libertadores debut and not among the top 100 on the list, is in Tier 2, one of the teams that will decide the classification as a visitor.
Teams in Pot 1 play against those in Pot 2, but Team America-MG and Fluminense They wouldn’t be able to face each other at this point. According to the regulation, two teams from the same country will only be able to form an arc if one of them comes from the previous stage, which is not the case, as the Brazilians enter the second stage together. So, find out what discount Coelho and Tricolor can take:
Possible opponents of America-MG:
- Atletico Nacional (Colombia)
- Students (Argentina)
- Guarani (Paraguay)
- Stronger (Bolivia)
- University (Peru)
- Catholic University (Ecuador)
- Monagas (Venezuela)
potential opponents Fluminense:
- Audax Italiano (Chile)
- Everton (Chile)
- Colonia Square (Uruguay)
- Millionaires or Deportivo Cali (Colombia) *
* You will know the latest rating on Tuesday - Classified ads first stage *
* Olympia (Paraguay), Barcelona de Guayaquil (Ecuador), Bolivar (Bolivia), Deportivo Lara (Venezuela), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay) or Universidad Cesar Vallejo (Peru)
A frightening rise in South America could cross the path of both América-MG and Fluminense In pre-editors. Among Coelho’s potential competitors, Universidad Católica-EQU plays at Atahualpa Stadium, in Quito (Ecuador), at 2,850 metres, while The Strongest is home to the Hernando Siles Stadium in La Paz (Bolivia), at 3,601 metres. Among the possible opponents of the game are Tricolor Bolivar, who shares the field with The Strongest, at an altitude of 3601 meters, and Milonarios, who plays in El Campín, in Bogotá (Colombia), at an altitude of 2,552 meters.
Powers 1 and 2 of the Pre-Libertadores Draw – Photo: Divulgação/Conmebol
The draw takes place as follows: first, a team is drawn from pot 2, and the first home match is played. After that, your opponent is drawn from pot 1. This process will be repeated until all eight balls in each pot are exhausted. if it was Fluminense The draw has been made as an opponent of América-MG, and Tricolor will go to the next showdown, as they will not be able to face each other at this point.
The lottery will also determine the transformation of the third and final stage of the pre-Libertadores. The winner of the first match that is drawn from the second stage will win the winner of the last match. The winner of the second duel takes on the winner of the seventh duel. It will take third place in the rankings, ranked sixth. Whoever passes the fourth knockout will capture whoever leaves the fifth.
In this third and final stage, the best-ranked teams in the CONMEBOL club standings will have the right to determine the rankings on their home soil.
Drawing of the Pre-Libertadores Phase III matches – Photo: Reproduction / CONMEBOL
How do Pre-Liberators work?
The pre-Libertadores stage is divided into three knockout stages. In the first, which will take place in the weeks of February 9 and 16, only Barcelona de Guayaquil, Olympia, Universidad Cesar Vallejo, Montevideo City Turque, Deportivo Lara and Bolivar will play. Encounters are decided by lot, and only three advance. Whoever is eliminated will not go to the Copa Sudamericana.
This is where the two Brazilians (America-MG and Fluminense), Estudiantes, Audax Italiano, Everton, Universidad Católica-EQU, Guaraní, Universitario, Plaza Colonia, Monagas, The Strongest, Atlético Nacional and another classified in Colombia (Millonarios or Deportivo Cali). They join the three who successfully passed the first stage of the new knockout matches in the weeks of February 23 and March 2. With eight leads, whoever is eliminated will not go to the Copa Sudamericana.
The eight seeded in stage two face each other, with pre-determined clashes via lottery, in the weeks of March 9 and 16, to determine the four who advance to the group stage. The four eliminated go to the Copa Sudamericana.
The 2022 Copa Libertadores Final will be held in Guayaquil, Ecuador, at the Barcelona Stadium in Guayaquil.
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