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In a weak match that enshrined both sides’ bad times, América de Cali fell 1-2 with Nacional this Saturday at Pascual Guerrero, in the first leg of the 2020 BetPlay League quarter-finals, completing their third consecutive defeat at home.
After several losses due to different circumstances and threats not to play, the match was too interrupted by fouls, with few arrivals on goal in the initial period and a penalty for each team.
The truth is that the teams lacked criteria to manage the ball and only in the second half was Nacional clearer to play in collective action and try to penetrate a defense that looked good. The visitor ended up in the scarlet area, but was not energetic, settling for the point, but at the end of the faceoff he got the victory with a header from Jefferson Duque, the portulaca hero, who scored a brace.
On the spot weigh the absences of Juan Pablo Segovia (1 penalty given), Rafael Carrascal (3 dates) and Marlon Torres (presumably for covid-19), who also played 69 minutes with 10 players due to the unacceptable expulsion of Rodrigo Ureña .
In the fifth minute, after a cross from Velasco on the left, Adrián Ramos came in to receive him and fell into the box before Diego Braghieri scored. They looked at the VAR and Ariza felt there was nothing. Velasco breaks the portulaca defense again at 19 to put a ball deep into the area, but Ramos once again fails to make contact with the tool.
At 33 Velasco makes a deep pass from the center, Daniel Quiñones entered the area and fell after young Jímer Fory stepped on the right guayo, Ariza gave a penalty, but they called him to see the VAR and after a few minutes doubt ratified the decision. Adrián Ramos charged from the right post and fooled José Fernando Cuadrado 1-0, 38.
Rodrigo Ureña irresponsibly stepped on Yerson Mosquera’s right calf when he fell after colliding with Velasco in the center of the pitch in an insidious foul, and the Chilean was sent off in the 26th minute after Edilson Ariza looked at the VAR.
This forced Cruz Real to send Yesus Cabrera and Luis Sánchez further back to make a 4-4-1 that contained what Nacional would have organized in attack from there. But it was not like that, because only at 43 ‘Antioquia tried with a shot by Baldomero Perlaza that went above the horizontal.
At 45, Joel Graterol took a ball that Jefferson Duque was looking for, touched it with his hands and produced another penalty that Duca himself executed on the left post, moving it to the Venezuelan, for the equalizer, over 48.
With the entry of Déinner Quiñones for the second half, Alejandro Restrepo wanted to take advantage of superiority with an unbalanced man, while Cruz included Carlos Sierra for Yesus Cabrera, when he fulfilled a double task of sacrifice and organization of the game, perhaps to take care of the expulsion to already have the yellow.
A charge from Duván Vergara in the 13th minute hits Duque’s left leg and touches the left corner of Cuadrado’s goal. Then it was Carlos Sierra who tried his left foot past the left post.
América lost the ball and saw how Nacional played in their territory and just disturbed again with a quick exit from Vergara in the 25th minute.
Graterol blocks a shot from Hernández in the 36th minute and Vergara immediately kicks a missed shot a few inches over the crossbar.
At 41, Nacional made a beautiful collective game, Vladimir Hernández raised the center in 5.50, Duque came behind Jaramillo and had to turn his neck in the lead and beat Graterol 1-2. Nacional was only the winner against an America without football, in which the hand of the coach is not visible and numerically diminished.
Next Saturday (20:00) this match will be repeated at the Atanasio Girardot stadium, in Medellín, to see the runner-up in the championship semi-final. The Reds must win or they will say goodbye to the championship without achieving the goal of keeping last year’s crown.
Synthesis:
America 1-1 National
America from Cali: Joel Graterol (5); Daniel Quiñones (6), Felipe Jaramillo (5), Pablo Ortiz (5), Edwin Velasco (7); Luis Alejandro Paz (6), Rodrigo Ureña (SC), Yesus Cabrera (6); Luis Sánchez (5), Duván Vergara (5), Adrián Ramos (5).
Changes: Carlos Sierra (6) by Yesus Cabrera (9 ST), Jhon Arias by Luis Sánchez (20 ST).
DT Juan Cruz Real.
National: José Fernando Cuadrado (6); Yerson Mosquera (6), Diego Braghieri (6); Brayan Córdoba (6), Jímer Fory (6); Baldomero Perlaza (6), Bryan Rovira (6), Andrés Andrade (5), Jarlan Barrera (6); Vladimir Hernández (6), Jefferson Duque (8).
Changes: Déinner Quiñones (6) by Andrés Andrade (1 ST), Jorge Segura (6) by Diego Braghieri (26 ST).
DT (e): Alejandro Restrepo
Targets: 1-0: Adrián Ramos (38 PT, from penalty). 1-1: Jefferson Duque (48 PT, penalty). 1-2: Jefferson Duque (41 ST, header).
Warned: Yesus Cabrera (14 PT), Jhon Arias (27 ST) for America. Brayan Rovira (25 ST) of Nacional.
Expelled: Rodrigo Ureña (26 PT).
Figure: Jefferson Duke (8)
Meeting: Regular
Stage: Pascual Guerrero
Referee: Edilson Ariza (6)
Marco Antonio Garcés
Futbolred correspondent Cali
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