About Cruziero - Racing final..... i dont know what to think i see the whole Cruzeiro Boca game and it was pathetic by Cruzeiro Boca with one less man for the whole match was nearby to win it. But Racing is also not a reliable team.
The quality of the games is a little lower, because the teams that qualify for this championship are the teams that usually fail to qualify for the Copa Libertadores. I consider the Copa Sudamericana to be a sort of second division of the continental tournament, with the Copa Libertadores being equivalent to the first division.
I hadn't stopped to think about it that way. It really is like the second division, but I always catch myself thinking that the Libertadores champion always loses to the winner of the "Sula". I know it's just my impression, but I always question myself about it.
It's something I also think about with the international club championship, the World Cup. I always think that any Brazilian team can be better or at least compete with the champion. It's really just a matter of timing.
Well since we are all from here we all know how good was the Sudamericana in his first edition it was like a second Libertadores, because the same teams plays at super high level, when Sudamericana starts to be a second tier and the top teams only play in Libertadores Sudamericana starts to lose his quality.
In the past, few teams managed to qualify for the Libertadores, only the top 4 in the Brazilian championship, today came 6 spots + the spot from the Brazilian Cup, that is, only teams with average performance qualify for the South American, perhaps it is a strategy to give a chance to be champion to the team that could not have a good season in the Brazilian championship, or also to move more prize money between these average teams, that is, to try to balance the finances of the championships... well, this is just my speculation.