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The matches between Junior and América were the starter for what will be a closing of the year loaded with a lot of Colombian football. The Super League left the Barranquilla as champions after losing 1-2 at home and winning 0-2 on the road, but beyond the scoreboard there is much to tell about these two games.
As usual, at FUTBOLRED we tell you everything the Super League left in its two games.
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Although the matches were not constantly full of emotions, there were very good moments in which the teams demonstrated good complementation among their players, especially in offense.
Goals were not lacking in either of the two games. Not all were scored by the figures, but there were nice scores in both games.
The two teams showed their best side. In the first leg, the debut of Juan Cruz Real, the scarlets were much more poignant and made the most of the extra man they had on the field of play. In the return match, Junior knew how to control the match much more and although he did not have the same offensive vocation, he did know how to control the match times so as not to suffer.
A bit
Just as each club showed something good in one game, they showed something bad in the other. In the first leg, Junior did not know how to handle the goal he scored three minutes into the game. Then he was left with one man less on the field of play and in the final minutes he suffered the goals that defeated him.
America, for its part, could not control the advantage that ended the first leg and suffered another goal at home before the first quarter of an hour of the game. Nor did he find the solutions to create goal options against Viera.
The only player known to have any discomfort after these matches is Yesus Cabrera, who was one of the figures in the first leg and was not called up for the return match.
Ugly
The playing fields are still a mole in Colombian soccer. In the Romelio Martínez the power went out during the first leg and in the second leg Pascual Guerrero was seen in a terrible state on the playing field.
The controversial
In this return of Colombian football, without VAR, there were two plays that ended in a goal and were controversial.
The first appeared in the first leg match. In Gabriel Fuentes’s own goal there was an intervention by Adrián Ramos, who was out of place when Yesus’s center started and although he touched it, he did participate in the play.
The second was in the second leg. Junior’s first goal came after Miguel Borja crossed when the ball apparently had already left the field. Neither the center-back nor the linesman noticed and the play ended in Fredy Hinestroza’s goal.
The expulsion of Teófilo Gutiérrez in Cali also left much controversy for an action in which Rafael Carrascal obviously seeks to provoke the Junior forward.
The highlights
There was no player who had a regular performance in the two games, but for America there was good performance by Luis Paz, Rafael Carrascal and Duván Vergara, while for Junior the good moments of Miguel Borja, Sebastián Viera and Freddy Hinestroza stand out.
The designated
For America there is a great signal and it is Adrián Ramos. The striker shows his hunger for a goal, but in Barranquilla he defined very poorly and missed a penalty, while in Cali he played very little.
Although Teófilo Gutiérrez’s good head touch for Carmelo Valencia’s goal remains in the memory, its importance in the sum of the two games is little. In Barranquilla he came out around the 60th minute and in Cali he was the one who touched the ball the most in the rival area, but they were not always decisive plays.
What not to repeat
The attitude of America’s fans in Cali prior to Friday’s game was not correct. Although there is a reopening in various sectors of society, football should not become a stage for the meeting of many people as it happened outside the hotel where the players were concentrated.
