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The scarlet box won 2-1 at the Metropolitano stadium with a great performance from Adrián Ramos.
The match between Junior and America, in the second leg of the semifinals of the Colombian league, it was pure ecstasy from what was seen in the stadium Metropolitan of Barranquilla: three goals, another two that were not by the VAR and a victory of the scarlet team by 2-1 that gave him the ticket to face Santa Fe in the final of the tournament.
The first half was all for those led by Juan Cruz Real, the coach who carries with him a miniature replica of the Señor de Los Milagros de Buga to entrust himself to the saint in each of the encounters. This time, the miracle, or rather, the virtue to work and endure, was fulfilled.
And after the initial 45 minutes, the visitor -very good visitor- I was already 2-0 up thanks to goals from Luis Sánchez and Adrián Ramos. Until then, America was very smart: recover and attack, recover and attack again. That’s how he put a Junior’s defense in trouble, that’s how he took advantage and thus showed that when everyone runs, everything works.
In the second stage, the shark club woke up and scored a discount that was not worth a clear out of place by Teófilo Gutiérrez before Miguel Ángel Borja left his marker badly. An action in reduced space, to step on the ball and to be in front of the goal with a simple movement.
Judge Andrés Rojas appealed to the VAR and there were no doubts to raise his hand and invalidate everything. If there was a distress in another maneuver in which Gabriel Fuentes, after a perfect pass from Borja, struck down Joel Graterol. This time, the technology went to detail, to the meticulous and annulled everything by a millimeter misplaced of the 9.
Already in 71 ′ the annotation finally arrived, again at Borja’s feet and after a pass from Teófilo Gutiérrez. And that goal from the man who leads the championship gunners table (14) opened the doors to a frantic game, to nerves and to a Junior turned on the attack.
In fact, the entrance of Michael Rangel was the signal that the order was to send everything to the area and look for a saving play. He almost arrived with a header from Santander who crashed, slowly, into Graterol’s right stick.
And then America, so different from the team in the first half, suffered a lot in a duel in which the visitor was clear dominator in the first half and the local in the second.
In the end, no matter how much drive and desire there was, the discount to get penalties did not come and the scarlet club kept the ticket to dispute the title with Santa Fe. Another great result for Juan Cruz Real and his team (they eliminated Nacional in Medellín), who will now go for the 15th star, the second in a row.
