April 10, 2021 – 7:46 p.m.
for:
Drafting of El País
America continued its agony, after a 0-0 draw this Saturday against Jaguars in Montería, a result that allows it to remain in the group of eight in the eighth box, but will have to beat Tolima on the last date if he wants to play the finals.
Poor presentation of the team of Juan Cruz, who could not beat the Cordovan team at the Jaraguay Stadium. He never did.
Poor ball delivery. That was the red team’s constant in the first 45 minutes. With a Santiago Moreno who acted as owner, he tried to find ideal partners in Duván Vergara or Steven Lucumí, but he could not find them, because when the ball reached them, the plays died.
Just two minutes into the game, Yesus Cabrera was a hair’s breadth away from giving José Chunga the lead with a shot from over on the left.
Jaguars’s Wilder saw his fine effort strike the top of the bar following some good work up the middle by his teammates after 17 minutes. The visitors’ right side was dangerous today; Pablo Rojas heads the ball to a team mate.
Two minutes later, Moreno undertook an American attack and threw a ball into the void that Vergara could not control at all and, uncomfortably, shot, but a defender interposed his leg to avoid the goal.
With will rather than quality of play, the ‘Devils’ tried, but the plays ended quickly due to mistakes in the delivery of the ball. Lucumí and Vergara, without level.
As if he didn’t need the result, coach Juan Cruz sent the same players to the court for the second half.
In the 63rd minute came the first modification, Luis Sánchez for Lucumí. And in the 70 entered Adrián Branches, that reappeared after an injury, by Rafael Carrascal. A change to seek more attack, running risks in the brand.
What was happening so far was the same for the first 45 minutes. A slow America, without intensity, with difficulties to go out and generate attack, its main men lost, and Jaguars trying to take advantage of the spaces left by the visitor.
Rams’s entry seemed to put more pressure on the scarlet team on his rival, but not necessarily more clarity and order.
A shot from Yesus at 78 forced Chunga’s pull, which he had to send to the corner charge.
He scared the Jaguars in the 80’s with a mid-range shot from Rojas, which allowed Graterol to shine to send it to the corner kick. And in 82, the Venezuelan archer saved the red fence in a double cut.
When the game was over, Sánchez missed the clearest play on a counterattack. He ran with the ball, confronted the archer, eluded him, and sent the ball outside with the bow alone.
Button the red team a clear option to put a foot in the group of the classified ones, evidencing a low level of the majority of its players in the track, and removing to Graterol like savior in three opportunities of goal that had the premises.
The 0-0 draw allows America to retain the eighth place in the standings, but life will be played on the last date against Esports Tolima at Pascual Guerrero, a place where he has only won two games in all the season. The agony lasts.