Deportivo Cali defeated Águilas Doradas 1-0 on Saturday at the Palmaseca Stadium and maintained its lead in the BetPlay I-2021 League with 16 points, on the sixth date of the competition.
History repeats itself, the sugar team produces too many goal options, but it has no precision in the last game. Only in the first half he had 11 shots, most of them in possession, but he returns to the same thing: he lacks definition. And Alfredo Arias will have to solve, with what exists on campus, the formula to achieve it.
Goalkeeper Carlos Bejarano imposed himself as the figure of the field, preventing the hosts’ attackers from breaking through the fence on several occasions. The only one who had the key to the padlock was Michell Ramos, who a few minutes from the end of the game took a beautiful right hand to overtake the goalkeeper Chocoano.
This Cali does not elaborate, it does not have the showiness of last season. His game is direct and rests on the wings, which his rivals already know, but even so, everything often reaches the opposite goal, almost always with the speed that Jhon Vásquez gives him.
In the 7th minute, Angelo’s cross to the right and no one arrived. At 9, Darwin Andrade’s serve and managed to deflect the ball to Rodriguez. At 15, a great move by Andrés Arroyo, which allowed Jhon Vásquez, but the wing failed to make holes in Bejarano’s goal.
Early injuries required the departures of a center for each side: Carlos Ramírez and Jorge Marsiglia before the second third of the first half. The latter had replaced the Uruguayan Hernán Lessse, who also remains in the Sugar medical department.
At 32, Angelo put a cross from the left to the center, where Vasquez was, but the shot from Cartagena, with his back to the goal, was contained.
Andrade made a bid to take the lead as a ball coming in on the right hand side left Eduard Caicedo completely alone with keeper Bejarano, who made a spectacular block.
Águilas Doradas tried to clear Verdiblanco’s dominance and at the age of 43 he appeared with a left footed shot by John Pérez that goalkeeper Guillermo De Amores deflected at the corner kick and then Álvaro Angulo entered the area, but moved.
At the beginning of the complementary period, Mateo Puerta inflated the fence Caleña, but there was a VAR check to analyze if he was out of place, because the ball arrived after a return of Andrade. Referee Keiner Jiménez’s decision was to annul the action.
Coach Alfredo Arias populated the visitors’ area with Marco Pérez and Michell Ramos and, although he obviously increased his approaches, the lack of a goal was confirmed.
Pérez, just entered, received a service from Gómez, but his header was stopped by Bejarano, 12 minutes. And then he failed in front of Chocoano when he entered the area.
No double shot by Vásquez and Ramos at 22 paid off, when the Águilas area was practically filled with green shirts. Two minutes later, Bejarano again blocked the white-green arrival.
With the variations implemented by Hubert Bodhert, the Antioquia team equalized the field and prevented the local to arm themselves again in the offensive part.
However, in the 41st minute, Michell Ramos eluded Giovanni Martínez and hit a tempered right at the top of the left vertical that eventually defeated Bejarano’s resistance, 1-0, only due to the superiority of Verdiblancos .
There was concern in the stands when, at the 3 minute mark, Águilas hit the ground hard, but he refused the attention of the trainer and rejoined his teammates on the pitch.
In the seventh round of all against all, Cali will visit Boyacá Chicó on Wednesday, February 17 (20:10), while Águilas Doradas will receive Envigado on the same day (16:00).
Synthesis
Deportivo Cali 1-0 Golden Eagles
Deportivo Cali: Guillermo De Amores (6); Harold Gómez (6), Jorge Marsiglia (SC), Jorge Arias (6), Darwin Andrade (6); Jhojan Valencia (6), Carlos Robles (6), Andrés Arroyo (6), Kevin Velasco (4), Jhon Vásquez (6); Angelo Rodríguez (5).
Changes: Eduard Caicedo (6) by Jorge Marsiglia (30 PT), Marco Pérez (4) by Arroyo (9 ST), Michell Ramos (7) by Kevin Velasco (9 ST), Andrés Balanta (SC) by Ángelo Rodríguez (45 + 1 ) SF).
DT: Alfredo Arias.
Golden Eagles: Carlos Bejarano (7); Mateo Puerta (6), Jeisson Quiñones (6), Carlos Ramírez (SC), Álvaro Angulo (7); Óscar Hernández (6), Kevin Castaño (5), John Freddy Salazar (6), Cristian Marrugo (5), Alejandro Artunduaga (5); Cesar Arias (4).
Changes: John Pérez (5) by Carlos Ramírez (26 PT), Ánthony Uribe (5) by John Freddy Salazar (20 ST) (ST), Eliser Quiñones (5) by César Arias (20 ST), Giovanni Martínez (5) by John Pérez (31 ST), Juan David Pérez (5) by Alejandro Artunduaga (31 ST).
DT: Hubert Bodhert.
Wear: 1-0: Michell Ramos (41 ST), for Deportivo Cali.
Admitted: Jorge Arias (10 ST) for Cali. Álvaro Angulo (45 + 1 PT) for Águilas Doradas.
Cast off: it was not.
Match: acceptable.
Figure: Carlos Bejarano (7).
Stage: Palmaseca (Deportivo Cali).
Referee: Nobody Jiménez (6).
Marco Antonio Garcés
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