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For the fans of Millonarios, the match against Nacional, like the classic with Santa Fe, is the one that cannot be lost, that of dignity. But this game, in addition, was to save the crisis, to dream again, even if the outlook is very complicated.
Millos shone in the first stage and endured with one less in the second, and thus scored 3-0 to his other rival of always, last night in El Campín.
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The first half, this yes, was the best of the Gamero era, and almost since the 15th star. A team with the order that it had already hinted at in other games, but with the forcefulness that it had lacked for many, many months.
The DT read the game well and took advantage of all the failures that Nacional usually commits behind: weakness for the wings and many spaces behind his defense.
Millos, of course, he also had weaknesses, but he knew, initially, to take advantage of them in his favor, such as the absence of a left back.
In the first half, the Paraguayan Diego Godoy was one more extreme and put him problems to the green defense. On the other hand, the young Émerson Rodríguez also took advantage of the band.
But the first goal came through the center, when Rodríguez, at 19 minutes, took advantage of a great qualification from Mackálister Silva and beat goalkeeper José Fernando Cuadrado.
The second goal came after a VAR review, which saved Judge Alexánder Ospina, who did not see a clear and obvious penalty from Diego Braghieri to Cristian Arango. In the 30th minute, Cuadrado stopped Ayron del Valle from charging, but on the rebound, the blue attacker himself sent her to the back of the goal.
Nacional, who sought a solution with the entry of the youthful Jimer Fory by Sebastián Gómez, He timidly tried to find the discount and ended up absolutely exposed, something that Millonarios took advantage of to get the third, in the fourth minute of replacement and in the best team play of the year, in which Arango, Silva and Del Vale participated, which ended with a pass Mackálister’s vacuum and a shot from ‘Chicho’, which left Cuadrado with no options. How long was the 3-0 in the first half? Not at all…
Juan Carlos Osorio, Nacional’s coach, had no qualms about making a profound change in his team: for the second half he sent three changes, with a single blow: outside Braghieri, Jarlan Barrera, who went unpublished, Fabián González Lasso.
And inside, Andrés Andrade, Brayan Rovira and Yerson Candelo. The three who entered gave Nacional another air. TOndrade and Rovira began to bring the team closer together and Candelo put Godoy to work, who no longer had the same freedom to leave.
Another VAR intervention, which saw a subtle touch from Juan Pablo Vargas, enough to stopping an obvious scoring opportunity made the game another one.
The Costa Rican ended up expelled, Gamero rearmed the defense by putting Breiner Paz for Del Valle and the game was more similar to what one imagined before it started, with Nacional’s initiative and the blue stamina in his field.
However, the effervescence of Nacional faded little by little, Millonarios made an effort as never before to endure the result with one less, to the point that several players ended up with cramps, such as Arango, Rodríguez and goalkeeper Moreno, who had a good debut.
And so, Millos still dreams of getting into eight, so the accounts still don’t quite add up to him. There are already eight dates without losing in the League and three victories in the last four games.
Jose Orlando Ascencio
Sports Deputy Editor of EL TIEMPO
@josasc
