MONTEVIDEO, March 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Uruguayan soccer team Rocha left for Ecuador on Monday ahead of a Thursday game with Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito (LDUQ) hoping to win a point to take it through to the next round of the Libertadores Cup.

    Rocha, a small club whose monthly budget is only 15,000 U.S. dollars, won its first ever Libertadores Cup game last week, beating LDUQ 3-2 in Uruguay.

    Rocha and LDUQ are second and third in the group, with four and three points respectively, making this game key to see who will qualify from Group Five of the Libertadores Cup to fight in the knockout competition.

    The Rocha team will go to Guayaquil to train until Thursday, and will only move to Guayaquil seven hours before kick-off, in a bid to counteract the effect of Quito's high altitude on its players. Ecuador's capital is some 2,800 feet above sea level.

    Rocha manager, Luiz Gonzalez, said that the return match would be very different from the first round, not least because LDUQ would be more comfortable at home in Quito. Audience pressure would be strong, he added, and the game could prove very negative for LDUQ if it does not get a positive result in the first few moments. Enditem