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Deportivo Cali had done everything this Saturday in Bogotá to win with a broad result on Equidad, a rival that it surpassed in the generation of offensive play and at the same time it was holding it up to prevent it from forming partnerships or shooting from medium distance, as is its specialty. However, a marking error in the 89th minute made him lose two of the three points he had in his pocket up to that moment.
The Valle del Cauca team went ahead in the first half with a dressing room goal and later appealed to the counterattack, managing the actions and with a correct control over an unknown rival, without direction or ideas, although it ended up giving them ground and ball. The “sugar” victory was necessary to go with greater tranquility to the match of the round of 16 of the South American Cup this Tuesday (7:30 pm) against Vélez Sarsfield in Argentina, but unfortunately it went like water in our hands.
Here are the positives and few negatives that he had in his presentation at Techo:
Determination to attack: With the technical direction of Alfredo Arias, the ‘sugar cane’ cast has shown that it goes out to attack on any field and did so against Equidad, to the point that at the minute of play he had already opened the scoreboard through Jhon Vásquez, after a good triangulation with Ángelo Rodríguez and Agustín Palavecino.
Almost consecutively Vásquez arrived and they requested an alleged foul by Joan Castro in the area on the Cartagena player, but Wílmar Roldán did not go to check the VAR. Ángelo Rodríguez also had several approaches to the area defended by Diego Novoa.
Palavecino had one at 32 of the first half after a pass from Juan Camilo Angulo, but he did not manage to connect the ball on the line, and later with a right hand that passed near the horizontal. And another at 16 of the second half that he returned the crossbar.
A shot from Deiber Caicedo in the area hit the right vertical, in what could have been the second ‘sugar’ goal.
Angelo prayed and sinned: The forward from San Andres was unable to score, but he was important in his role as pivot and generator of some approaches to the ‘belay’ goal. What nobody expected is that his deconcentration to go to the mark of the central defender Joan Castro would end in the goal of David González, throwing away the objective of getting the three points.
He mounted the blocks well to close the spaces and counterattack: Cali, after getting ahead on the scoreboard, made numerical superiority in the middle in solidarity with Andrés Colorado, Jhojan Valencia and sometimes Deiber, to prevent the local from joining their attack men, so much so that Matías Mier was missing from the game. From there he left Vasquez and Deiber Caicedo pending any counterattack against a team desperately trying to go on the offensive.
The safety of David González: The Antioquia goalkeeper is a guarantee pledge and in this commitment he lived up to the few occasions that he was disturbed. One of them at 12 minutes when he diverted a shot from Carlos Rodríguez to the corner kick, another at 11 from the complement to reduce in a shot by Matías Mier and the one at minute 31 when David Camacho arrived. In the goal he could do nothing.
Lost the rebounds on defense: After Vásquez’s goal, Equidad reacted more with enthusiasm than with football, but he got into green and white terrain and through the rebounds that were left when trying in the air game he created complications for the visitor’s rear.
Distraction on the still ball in the final part: The capital’s team got the tie in the 89th minute, after a corner kick by Mier Joan Castro jumped ahead of Ángelo Rodríguez and with the right parietal he connected the ball to beat David González. Award for the team that through its variants in the second half gave everything for everything and strong punishment for the other that was not effective in converting the good amount of options it produced.
The second confrontation will be played on Saturday, November 28 (5:30 pm) in Palmaseca with an Equidad who will arrive in search of another victory, as he did at Pascual Guerrero in the closing of the ‘all against all’.
Marco Antonio Garcés
Correspondent Futbolred Cali
On twitter: @marquitosgarces
