América de Cali defeated Deportivo Pasto 2-1 for the third day of group B of the final home runs of the second semester of the BetPlay Dimayor 2022 League, at the Pascual Guerrero Olympic Stadium. In which, the American cast took an important breath to stay alive in the group and Pasto practically liquidated their chances of reaching the final.
During the first moments of the match, the Valle del Cauca team took the ball and began to have possession, moving the ball from one side to the other, but without finding space in attack. While the pastusos waited in defense and tried to counterattack from the sides. At minute 10, the visit put together a good sequence of passes through the right sector between Gilberto García, Mariano Vásquez and Facundo Boné, who came only in front of goalkeeper Diego Novoa and the striker was unable to make the first goal of the night.
Around 22 minutes, the game got a little more animated with two chances, one for each side. First the Nariñenses with a free kick from Gilberto García, which Novoa controlled without any problem, and then América with a shot from Brayan Vera, but without much power.
Five minutes later, John García recovered the ball in his own half, played with Esneyder Mena on the right side, who advanced several meters, crossed low, Iago Falque let it pass for Juan David Pérez, in which the winger inside the area looked for the best location and made it 1-0 to the left post of the tricolor goalkeeper.
Then the volcanoes reacted again with a free kick from the side with García, but it had the same finish in the hands of Novoa. Immediately after, the scarlets had the same play on the right side, Falque executed and the goalkeeper Diego Martínez controlled the ball. At minute 39, Vera had a new opportunity from outside the area, but the goalkeeper again stopped the danger. Before closing the initial part, Flavio Torres made the first substitution with the entry of Adrián Estacio for Yilson Rosales.
For the final stage, América recovered the initiative with some approaches to the opposite goal, but they lacked the final point. The Pasto suffered a bit, but little by little they were coming out of that pressure, although they continued to have difficulties in moving into the attack zone.
The volcanoes were going to make three changes, but at minute 58, the team started from the bottom, the local had a very slight mark, in which Jeison Medina on the line in a good individual, eluded the mark of Kevin Andrade and Daniel Quiñones , assisted Adrián Estacio, who was entering the area alone and finished off first to tie the game at one goal.
The two teams continued looking for the advantage, but eight minutes later, the red devils advanced through the left sector with Pérez and Nicolas Giraldo, the winger threw the creeping cross into the heart of the area and Adrián Ramos from first intention to the goalkeeper’s post, scored the 2-1 partial.
Immediately the visitor made four substitutions. César Quintero, Víctor Arboleda, Léiner Escalante and Facundo Ospitaleche entered for Juan Garavito, Vásquez, Camilo Ayala and Boné. Then Alexandre Guimaraes sent Daniel Hernández for Falque.
At minute 74, the scarlets had to score the goal of peace of mind, with a ball that Daniel Quiñones headed past Ramos and the striker couldn’t make it in front of goalkeeper Martínez. Four minutes later, Ramos himself left Pérez one-on-one with the goalkeeper, defined and hit the goalkeeper’s right upright.
Then Deiner Quiñones entered the reds for Pérez. In the 83rd minute, Deiner joined Ramos, the captain assisting Esneyder, who scored his team’s third, but it was later ruled out by VAR. In the end, América controlled the game and added their first three points of this second phase.
These two same rivals will face each other again next weekend, but at the Libertad de Pasto Departmental Stadium, for date 4 of the group B homer.
Juan Andres Arias Arias
Correspondent Futbolred
Cali
And Twitter: @AriasJuan_15