This Sunday’s match against Santa Fe (1-1) is the second consecutive draw for the leader, Deportivo Cali, in the BetPlay League I-2021, only he got it against a tough rival as the capital’s cast .
However, coach Alfredo Arias considers that the action that led to the partial advantage, converted into a goal by Sherman Cárdenas, was not criminal, as the regulation is clear in this regard when the ball first hits the buttocks and then seeks the hand of the defender (in this case the winger Darwin Andrade).
The Uruguayan was consulted about his time to consider other alternatives in attack after the low production of Ángelo Rodríguez and Marc Pérez: “They have played almost all those who have been in attacking function of the team, I think that we are trying to logically put those who are better in training, to whom they give more offensive power, I don’t think it betrays me and I don’t want to put, if I had someone else I would put it. “
On whether Santa Fe is the most difficult opponent he has faced, he replied that “I don’t know if the most complicated, but a very good team, it is, I said before the game, we faced a very tough opponent, very good in all concepts, and it was going to be a match like we all had in the championship, we didn’t have any easy ones, on top of that we had the refereeing decisions against, beyond the VAR and all that, a match in which you receive a 1:00 penalty in the 16th minute, with a rival like Santa Fe who then defends very well, who has his bow almost undefeated in so many games, it is not easy to go out to look-because you give space, you give ease of being able to counterattack and liquidate you, my players bravely went to the front, overlapped, wanted and created the chances, so much so that they canceled some of us, well canceled for sure, because the VAR did not After that, we overcame an expulsion from the archer, we were like 20 minutes or more one player less, I have to value what my team does. Also to say that a penalty that the ball goes to the butt of a player and then goes to the hand, for me is not a penalty, but until we unify criteria it will follow that the VAR will be used to charge one thing or another, a ball like that, the regulations say, is not criminal. “
On how he analyzes the operation of his squad after the expulsion of archer Guillem D’Amors, he said that “the team behaved well, both after the disadvantage of the penalty, that for I was badly awarded, and then for the expulsion. went in search.Even with 10 we had the chances to score and Santa Fe.I’m proud of these guys, it was a tough test, of character more than anything, I don’t know if tactically, but we wanted to win everything time, we went out to look for ourselves exposing ourselves in the spaces, but knowing that if we put intensity and pressure to him we were going to create many problems to him to the rival “.
Arias also referred to what cost them the most in this game in front of the ‘cardinal’ cast: “It’s when they shoot at the bow and you’re on your back and the ball hits your body to cut our hand, after he hits the butt of the player, after that before we played against a very good team, a great team, that handles the concepts very well, that works a long time ago and that his coaching staff does an excel “It’s a tough job, but we did it, I think tactically and in the effort of my team I’m proud of that.”
For his part, the winger Andrés Colorado, referred to whether for the development the tie was a prize: “I do not feel that it was a prize, we had many goal options, unfortunately we do not specify them and those that we specify concretely the teammates were offside, I feel that the team did a great job, a great effort when we were left with 10 players, until we had goal options, I do not see it as a prize but as a result for the approach of both teams , although I feel we deserved a little more for the goal options we had. “
Marc Antoni Garcés
Futbolred correspondent
Cali
On Twitter: @marquitosgarces