Deportivo Cali Survival Update: Limbo in Relegation Table Waiting for Patriotas Result

2024-04-17 01:20:28

Deportivo Cali is still ahead of Jaguares in the relegation table, but now it is left in limbo, waiting for what Patriotas does in its match against Medellín, to see if it ends date 17 breathing easy or stuck in the red zone .

This Tuesday’s 1-1 in Montería turned out to be the lesser of two evils for a team that was winning well, but that collapsed after conceding the tying goal, to the point that it could have had a very bad time, in a duel between two teams that have not been doing things well this semester and in which neither had a proper coach.

Deporitvo Cali came out ahead for the victory in the first minutes. In them he forgot about the bad moment, the difficulties, that he was playing with a full stadium against him, because in Montería they also revived and gave free entry to everyone wearing the Jaguares shirt.

Thus, the beginning of the match was hand-to-hand, with two teams attacking. And he also ended up benefiting from a referee error: neither the referee Diego Ruiz nor the person in charge of the VAR, María Victoria Daza, considered a foul by José Caldera against Wilson Morelo as a penalty.

It was Caldera himself who generated the play that gave Deportivo Cali the lead goal, at 22 minutes, by bringing down a ball in the six-yard box for Fredy Montero to do a scissor dive and defeat goalkeeper Geovanni Banguera.

The tough second half for Cali

Cali once again suffered a blackout when Jaguares found the equalizer, 15 minutes into the second half, on a header from Enrique Serje after a great cross from Pablo Rojas. The doctor, who had already saved a point for Montería against Envigado, was once again an emergency scorer.

After the tie, the match took place, for the most part, around the visiting area, in which goalkeeper Alejandro Rodríguez became one of the figures of the match, with three very important saves. Cali did not make a shot on goal, not one, in the entire second half.

In the end, Cali managed to save a point with which they maintain the three-point difference over Jaguares in the permanence table. Speaking of averages, Cali was left with 1.05 and those from Montería, with 1.02. The problem is that if Patriotas wins, it will go to 1.06 and leave them both in the relegation zone. So in Montería and Cali, on Thursday, they will be DIM fans.

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