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Nobody knows what to expect with this América de Cali directed by Juan Cruz Real. As he himself said at the press conference, there are only 7 games in front of the Colombian champion, but what the team shows in football leaves many doubts.
Of course, the pandemic affected too much, especially the red box, which lost its champion coach, Alexandre Guimaraes, and two important players such as Matías Pisano and Michael Rangel. The managers’ argument is the financial part and from that point of view it is difficult to get into the pocket of the largest shareholder, who gave the go-ahead for the choice of Cruz Real, whose record was not the best in the clubs he had managed.
It was hardly fair to give a wait in view of so many previous problems, but traditional teams have goals and deadlines are tight. The team that defeated Universidad Católica 1-2 was very different from the current one, and although mathematics says that it has a thread of life left, in terms of football it does not bode well for a victory of more than two goals in Porto Alegre against Gremio on October 22, on the last date of Group E, and that Universidad Católica beat Internacional in Santiago by that same difference.
This Tuesday the first bad news was the absence of Duván Vergara, the most unbalanced player on the team, apparently due to a medical situation.
Very low individual performances: The group is produced from a good contribution from each player, but chips that were called to have a leading role in their position did not: Jhon Arias, Adrián Ramos and the youthful Émerson Batalla were not important to destabilize a rear that went with the goal at zero.
It costs him to generate offensive game: America loses too many minutes without subduing the rival, produces a lot of pitch and ends up making things easier for the opponent. That task is assumed by Rafael Carrascal or Carlos Sierra to get the team out of their zone, but they are not properly creative flyers.
The ball does not travel through the middle of the court and that makes the games boring, as happened in much of the first 45 minutes.
The changes did not change the panorama: To avoid an eventual expulsion of Luis Paz, who from the first 20 seconds was already yellow, Felipe Jaramillo entered at 15 minutes of the complement, trying to control the midfield of a Brazilian team that this time looked little dynamic, perhaps because of his 10 low. Then Yesus Cabrera for Arias (21 ST) and Santiago Moreno for Batalla (33 ST). The only one who appeared was Moreno, with a shot that returned the horizontal, but nothing else.
It has no power in attack. The statistics of the game indicate that America had three arrivals to score at least twice, but again it showed that it lacks a man to make a difference in the rival goal. It was believed that it was the Peruvian Marco Aldaír Rodríguez, a player who dissociated himself from Binacional, but that he would only be arriving in Cali this Wednesday.
The best arrivals of the venue were like this: Carlos Sierra (9 PT), Adrián Ramos (16 ST) and Santiago Moreno (34 ST), but precision was lacking in the last play.
It lacks to take advantage of the numerical superiority: It happened against Tolima by League and this Tuesday it was repeated against Internacional. The rival loses a man by expulsion, in this case Leandro Fernández, and the scarlet box does not take advantage of its lack of clarity to occupy spaces and make the player notice more.
Marco Antonio Garcés
Correspondent Futbolred Cali
On twitter: @marquitosgarces
