Datasheet:
Medellín: Andrés Mosquera Marmolejo; Juan Guillermo Arboleda, Victor Moreno, Andrés Cadavid, Yulián Gómez; Adrián Arregui, Andrés Ricaurte (Daniel Torres 85′), Vladimir Hernández (Miguel Monsalve 81′), Felipe Pardo; Diber Cambindo (José Hernández Chávez 86′), Luciano Pons.
Coach: Dave Gonzalez.
Pereira: Harlen Castle; Jherson Mosquera, Andrew Strap, Charles Ramirez; Juan Pablo Zuluaga, Jhonny Vasquez, Maicol Medina (Yilmar Velasquez 74th), Jimer Fory, Leider Berrio (Harlin Suarez 81st); Leonard Castro, Brian Leon.
Coach: Alexander Restrepo.
goals: 1-0 Min 37 Diber Cambindo; 1-1min 41 Leonardo Castro.
reprimanded: Andrés Cadavid (Medellín), Léider Berrío (Pereira), Santiago Castaño (Pereira), Carlos Ramírez (Pereira), Diber Cambindo (Medellín).
Key moments:
12′ Approach of Medellín. After a great pass from Hernández, Gómez crosses for Pons, who was unable to finish off before Castillo’s good bailout.
37 & # 39; Medellin goal! Play that was born after a recovery of the ‘powerful’, Ricaurte ‘served’ the ball to Cambindo, who received without a mark, drove the ball to the rival area against a passive defense and sent it into the back of the net.
41′ Goal by Pereira! Castro received a cross from Berrío and inside the area he controlled and unleashed an accurate left-footed shot to quickly level the score.
51′ Pereira approached. After an error at the start, Berrío took the ball from Ricaurte and the ‘Matecaña’ looked for the goal, but Marmolejo saved, the rebound fell to Castro and his shot went wide.
58′ Medellin replied with a cross shot by Pardo, but the ball went very close to Castillo’s right post.
66 & # 39; He returned to look for Medellín. Great play by Vladimir who controlled, turned around and assisted Cambindo, who headed, but Castillo flew to prevent the goal.
70′ Wrong penalty! After reviewing the VAR, the referee called a penalty for a handball by Vásquez, Cadavid was in charge of collecting and finished off Castillo’s left post, who guessed it and covered it.
94′ ¡’San Chipi Chipi’! At the last minute, Medellín was very close to the goal with a header from Pons, but the ‘Matecaña’ goalkeeper responded with a great save.
Development of the match:
Medellín and Pereira drew 1-1 in a vibrant match and will define the champion in the second leg that will be played on December 7 at 7:00 p.m. and will be broadcast by Win Sports+.
It was a dynamic first half with a ‘powerful’ player who sought to quickly disturb the opposing field and demanded Harlen Castillo. A better start was seen for David González’s team that at minute 37 took the lead through Diber Cambindo, but the visitor quickly responded through Leonardo Castro.
It was a vibrant first half where the scorers of each team were the stars. In the second half, the teams did not clash and maintained their idea of the game, both continued to propose, but the goal did not open for them, not even from the penalty spot.
At minute 70 Andrés Cadavid had a clear opportunity to put Medellín back in the lead, but his shot from 12 steps was saved by Harlen ‘salvador’ Castillo and that fell like a bucket of cold water for the ‘red of the mountain’.
However, at the last minute Medellín went looking for the goal again and was very close to scoring it with a header from Luciano Pons, but ‘Chipi Chipi’ appeared again to prevent it.
Thus, ‘powerful’ and ‘matecañas’, although they exhibited a good game, did not take advantage and will define the whole day of candles.