This Sunday against Santa Fe (1-1) is the second consecutive draw of the leader, Deportivo Cali, in the BetPlay League I-2021, only he got it against a tough rival like the distribution of the capital.
However, coach Alfredo Arias believes that the action that led to the partial advantage, turned into a goal by Sherman Cárdenas, was not a penalty, because the regulations are clear in this regard when the ball first hits the buttocks and then seeks the defender’s hand. (in this case the Darwin Andrade wing).
The Uruguayan was asked if it was time to consider other alternatives in attack after the reduced production of Ángelo Rodríguez and Marco Pérez: “Virtually everyone who was in the attacking role of the team played, I think we are trying to put ourselves in logically for those who are better in training, for those who give a greater offensive power, I don’t think I will betray myself and I wouldn’t want to put it on, if I had someone else I would do it ”.
Regarding whether Santa Fe is the most complicated opponent he has faced, he replied that “I don’t know if the most complicated, but a very good team was, was, I said it before the game, we face with a very tough opponent, very good in all respects and that it was going to be a game like we all had in the championship, we didn’t have anything easy, moreover, we had refereeing decisions against, beyond the VAR and all what, a game in which you receive a penalty in 16 minutes, with a rival like Santa Fe who later defends himself very well, who has his goal almost undefeated in so many games, it is not easy to go in search of him because you give space, offer the ease of being able to attack and liquidate you, My players bravely went ahead, overtook, wanted and created the chances, so much so that they canceled some of us, certainly well canceled, because VAR is not wrong in that. After the other one, I overcame an expulsion of the goalkeeper, I was like 20 minutes or more with one player less, I have to evaluate what my team is doing. Also, to say that a penalty that the ball takes to a player’s buttocks and then goes to the hand, for me is not a penalty, but until the unification of the criteria will follow that the VAR will serve to collect one thing or another, a such a ball, say the regulations, is not a penalty “.
Regarding the way he analyzes the functioning of his team after the expulsion of goalkeeper Guillermo De Amores, he said that “the team behaved well, both after the disadvantage of the penalty, which for me was poorly granted, and later due to the expulsion. Our team has always been looking, it is not easy against a team like Santa Fe, which comes with these numbers, to create chances to score, but our team has always been looking. Even with 10 of us we had the chance to score Santa Fe. I’m proud of these guys, it was a very tough test, of character more than anything, I don’t know if from a tactical point of view, but we wanted to win all the time, we went out to watch exposing ourselves in spaces, but knowing that , if we put intensity and pressure, we would create a lot of problems for our rival ”.
Arias also referred to what cost him the most in this game against the role of “cardinal”: “When he finishes the goal and you are on your back and the ball hits your body, cutting your hand, after hitting your butt from player, after that we play against a very good team, a great team, which deals very well with concepts, which has been working for a long time and that its coaching staff does an excellent job, but I took it forward, I think tactical and In the effort of my team, I am proud of that ”.
For his part, midfielder Andrés Colorado mentioned whether the draw led to a prize: “I don’t think it was a prize, we had a lot of goal options, unfortunately we didn’t specify the ones we had. unfortunately they were out of the game, I feel that the team did a great job, a great effort when I was left with 10 players, I even had goal options, I don’t see it as a prize, but as a result of the approach of two teams, although I think we deserve a little more for the goal options we had ”.
Marco Antonio Garcés
Football correspondent
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