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Soccer returned in Colombia after almost six months of inactivity due to the pandemic. And he returned with goals, emotions and a victory for Cali America 1-2 visiting the Junior, in Barranquilla, in the first leg of the Super League final, which will be resolved next Friday at Pascual Guerrero.
Junior suffered almost the entire match, because although he started winning, he was very fast with 10 men and was subdued by his rival, who showed a good face and ended up coming back in the last ten minutes, to win a key win for the return game.
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The local team started winning very quickly, after a penalty from goalkeeper Chaux against Miguel Borja. The attacker himself finished off and made it 1-0, when they were only 4 minutes.
America, however, was not resigned. He went to look for the tie and could have also found it from the penalty spot, after a foul against Adrián Ramos. In the action, the Barranquilla team lost Germán Mera by expulsion. The panorama was smiling at the scarlets, but Ramos, the most experienced, failed against the goalkeeper Sebastian Viera.
In any case, Junior was greatly diminished, he had to withdraw so as not to suffer so much from his less man. Teo, who started connected, He disappeared. America took over the shares, it looked good, superior, but did not materialize.
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In the second half he took a risk, he took Quiñones out and Yesus Cabrera entered to generate mobility and danger. He maintained dominance and in the last minutes he turned the scoreboard, first with an own goal by Sources, 10 minutes from the end, and then with another goal against, this time from Ditta, at Vergara’s shot.
“They started winning, by mistake of us, an oversight. The game changed, we knew how to take advantage of their man less, we had to attack them, they were dead and the last minutes, with patience, the goals came,” said Vergara in Win Sports.
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Thus, the scarlets went up in the Super League, visiting, and showing a good face.
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