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Millionaires did not have full-backs, neither the holders nor the substitutes. He started losing. He had to row from behind, pose and rethink, rearrange and rearrange. He had to risk and suffer. Fight and play. And with everything and that, Alberto Gamero’s team managed to draw Junior in Barranquilla, 1-1, in the match on date 16. A tie that leaves a taste of victory, those that are valuable for the place and by the rival, and by the circumstances, although the point is of little use to the ambassadors and leaves the sharks in a bad way.
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Junior’s goal was throbbing from the beginning, and you could see it coming as it would, on one side, because Millonarios did not have their original full-backs. What he had was a couple of lanes, Vega and Godoy, improvised, sacrificed by the team, making a great effort to go and return and not fail. So there was a disadvantage that Alberto Gamero tried to hide with his five-deep strategy.
And the entry approach was almost perfect. The team recovered and counterattacked at speed, with their improvised lanes in the game. And so they got closer, so much so that Salazar fired a cannon to let Junior know there was a rival, that there were weapons. And if it weren’t for the overhead of goalkeeper Viera, another would have been history.
The problem is, Millos couldn’t keep up that frantic pace, not for long. He was losing the ball and the physical forces that his scheme demanded of him. So the rival was on him, by the bands, with sharp teeth, but imprecise. Biting air.
Junior’s great sin was that he did not know or could not or did not want to define. Carmelo Valencia as if he had the guayos backwards or it was as if he was scared, because when he was in front of the goalkeeper, alone, he sent her out. And so that Carmelo would not feel so bad, Sherman Cárdenas went and failed his, even more unusual.
And then Carmelo fought, handsome, won, scored and wanted revenge as he usually does, but he didn’t have it. His shot again was outside, and away … Everything was to the despair of Amaranto Perea, who suffered from the line, who perhaps wanted to enter and tell them how to kick, and that he was a defender.
And speaking of defenders, Fuentes, the left-back, had to go to hit a scorer’s header, showering goalkeeper Vargas, but since it wasn’t Junior’s night, the ball hit the crossbar. In the first half, Junior’s men only holed one, from Carmelo himself, and it was out of place … And Millos endured, suffered and fought.
For the second half Gamero wanted to better adjust his initial idea, and that is why Ayron del Valle entered for Salazar. But before the team was rearranged, came the controversial play, in a supposed subjection of Godoy on Teo who dropped in the area. Yes, no, that the VAR, and finally the central Roldán changed his decision. It was not a penalty.
Millos needed to plug the sides, put problems for Junior who gained confidence on the bands with an inspired Fuentes. Quiñones and Márquez went to the court, to adjust and risk, so Gamero gave another instruction, put together a 4-4-2, erasing the idea of three in the background and improvised lanes to play with improvised sides.
The problem is that while adjusting the nuts, Junior arrived with danger, of course, on the left wing, that of Fuentes, who threw the center low and found Larry Vásquez, who had not tried and who in his first attempt did not fail. Inside and 1-0 for respite from Junior and Amaranth, and for Gamero’s headache.
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But Junior was satisfied, he thought that the rival was dead, that he had no way. I will trust. Millonarios kept fighting, and found the tie in the midst of his anguish and his despair not to fall, and in the midst of all the problems that happened in this game, and he found it in a throw-in by Quiñones, who dressed as a winger , and a header attempt by Márquez that combed the ball back, and Willer Ditta, who was not expecting it, scored on his own goal, for the 1-1 with only five minutes left.
Millionaires needed to win, because the tie is of little use to him in the table, he reached 18 points and is still far away, but he achieved a vital point for his spirit and to continue fighting.
PABLO ROMERO
Editor of EL TIEMPO
@PabloRomeroET
