Sport Cali was classified to quarters of end of the Colombia Glass when winning this Thursday 3-1 to the Independent Medellín in the Atanasio Girardot.
Ángelo Rodríguez and the Uruguayan Gastón Rodríguez twice scored for the sugar box; Edwar Lopez had put up the Almighty of Antioch.
Now America will face America in the next phase of the Colombia Cup.
The game in Antioch territory was just as exciting as the first leg in Palmaseca, where they tied 2-2.
The red team put against the ropes at Deportivo Cali at various times in the first half. While the sugars looked for the rival area and disturbed the arc of the premises, they did not manage to be precise to write down.
Jhon Vásquez could not connect with a shot from Juan Camilo Angulo. It was the clearest for the Caleño ensemble, which forgave the ” powerful ” in his yard.
Instead, the team of ‘Bolillo’ Gómez charged Cali, in the 24th minute the winger Edward López put up on the scoreboard in the red (1-0), connecting with a powerful header a center by Adrián Arregui.
The sugar team, as usual, had no problems in defense and Medellin almost goes on. In the 29th minute, striker Diego Herazo missed a great option to increase the lead on the scoreboard. Javier Reina mounted an inspired counterattack down the right wing after 80 minutes, but was unable to convert from short range.
The 10 of the ‘powerful’ was on, in addition to his dangerous passes he pulled off a great long-range left-footed shot, which ended up sticking horizontally.
In desperation to equalize the game, Arias sent to the field in the first minutes of the second half to Gastón Rodríguez by Andrés Arroyo and Ángelo Rodríguez by Jhon Vásquez. The artillery of the Uruguayan DT in the field was weakened by the ankle injury of Harold Preciado, who had to leave the track in the 59th minute.
The green-and-whites were close to equalizing the game with a shot to be placed by Teofilo, who brilliantly took the goalkeeper Andrés Mosquera.
They did not stop looking for the game of the sugar, that tied the game (71 ‘) with a goal of Ángelo Rodríguez, pushing the ball that bounced in the vertical for the 1-1.
And a few minutes later Gastón Rodríguez, from a penalty shot, made it 2-1 for the green-and-whites. When spare time was playing, Gastón made a lightning counterattack and sentenced the duel with an unobjectionable 3-1.
The Sugarmen advanced to the quarterfinals where they will face America.