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A number ’10’ was inspired and released in El Campín. A ’10’ in times when the number ’10’ inspires more, or motivates more, or something special generates in some talented players, because Jhon Velásquez, the ’10’ of Santa Fe, brought out his best artist repertoire , as illuminated by some hidden magic, which has it, but which was saved, and he took it out just now, from his right boot, with two goals that helped the team to beat Pasto 2-0, and come back and qualify without surprises to the semifinal of the League, thus, hand in hand with an inspired ’10’.
Velásquez could have taken the ball home, and slept with it, as a pillow, if he wanted to, because although he did not score three goals as is the custom of the owners of the ball – those who take it away -, yes He made two that were vital, and also had a shot off the stick that was shouted on the court as if it had been the third. It was an inspired Velasquez.
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Pasto did not know, he did not find out, no one told him that Velasquez was on the court, that he prowled in the area, that he was inside and not outside of it, that he was at ‘9’ and not just at ’10’, that he was like camouflaged in the grass, as if his shirt were not red but a deep green, because nobody saw him there.
From the right the ball reached the ’10’ to pass from ‘9’, in a perfect castling, and the steering wheel, inspired and camouflaged, made his task easier and the most difficult, is that that of receiving the ball only in the area it is not always an advantage, it is not a guarantee, that stuns, anguish, because it is known that you cannot fail, and less with a series against, with a semifinal at stake, and incidentally the entire campaign of the year, but Velásquez was not stunned, he made everything so simple: he controlled with simplicity and finished off the goal, the ball was well adjusted to the right post that goalkeeper Delgado did not reach even by stretching his fingers over his fingers, and it was 1-0 that in just 12 minutes it meant more than 1-0, it meant equality on the global scoreboard, so the defeat he suffered in Pasto began to be left behind.
Having done the first task, the mission was the search for the other goal. The one that the team needed the most because it was the goal to come back and qualify without going through the penalty roulette. The goal of certifying that Santa Fe is not a mirage. And he didn’t want to wait long for that. He took advantage of the fact that Velásquez was illuminated, and that all the balls were looking for him, by conviction or by attraction or by mistake, it is that even the pastusos wanted to give it to him, wrapped in gift paper, ‘Here, Velásquez, the ball is for you today ‘, Rodríguez, his rival, should have told him, who preferred to let him serve it rather than reject it, and the enlightened man did not waste his generosity and thanked him with a strong right hand with the second cardinal goal, in 34 minutes.
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The second task was done, and the pressure was already beginning to be beaten. Santa Fe concentrated on keeping things like that, in that necessary order, so as not to have surprises in the second half, so as not to have to suffer with the dangerous pastouts sets, nor with the touches and the partnerships between Pajoy and Medina, nor with the Ayala’s shots that had already burned the fingers of goalkeeper Castellanos.
Pasto wanted, made variations, risked, as was natural. It was all or nothing. And he left with nothing. Santa Fe began to administer the ball, so Sambueza, until now anonymous, took center stage, but not enough because the inspired one was still on the field, and it seemed that he wanted to score all the goals that he had not done this year, because in one of his individual genius put a shot on the crossbar, powerful, powerful, those shots that if they pass a few millimeters below can break the net, but no, it was a few millimeters higher and to the post.
The rest of the game maintained normal tension. Every time Pasto cheered up, he crashed into Castellanos. And every time Santa Fe attacked, it created danger and excitement. Cucchi wanted, Osorio tried, Sambueza grew, but the figure was another, the figure was on the court plotting and creating, at least during the 73 minutes he had before going to rest and wait for the referee to whistle to go for the ball and keep it, maybe he didn’t, but he should have, because his two goals were vital, important and great, goals to qualify for a semifinal that will be against La Equidad. Goals from an inspired ’10’.
PABLO ROMERO
Editor of EL TIEMPO
Twitter: @PabloRomeroET
