They are 7 dates of the BetPlay II-2021 League and still remains among the eight (seventh with 11 points), the collective functioning of America de Cali continues to leave serious questions in the last confrontations.
The good start was exciting. It was a team that sometimes worked and sometimes came through direct play. So he beat Águilas Daurades 1-3, Junior 3-1 and worked hard to beat Onze Caldas 1-0, but since August 7 it does not add up to three points.
He also lost 1-0 with Envigado and 2-0 with Medellín, in the only game won by Hernán Darío ‘Bolillo’ Gómez, equalized 0-0 with Patriotes in Cali on the sixth date and 1- 1 with Santa Fe on the seventh day.
A player who was signed in the middle of skepticism for his background of indiscipline as Gustavo Torres scored a double in Rionegro and then did not score again, now he is confused in attack and anxious in decision making. In the same way, Adrián Ramos has lost the specific weight he gave to the front.
Beyond the continuous rotations that has as philosophy the Risaraldense coach, what worries the fans and the sports chronicle is that the team still does not produce a good feeling with either. In each day there have been three, four or seven variants, with the aggravating factor that is discovered too much in the background.
And even more disconcerting is to see the lack of self-criticism of the red coach, who is perhaps one of the few who considers that his team did not suffer the match with Santa Fe in El Campín, where the goalkeeper Joel Graterol was the great it appears with his multiple shortcuts, and Deinner Quiñones saved the point of agonizing form with a golás.
This first half in Bogota showed the huge spaces left by the defense, a sector in which Pablo Ortiz played one of his worst games, slipping and giving rise to rapid transitions that fortunately for the team vallecaucano did not specify his rival the capital.
It is true that the championship is just 30%, but the scarlet team will have to improve a lot in its defensive and recovery lines, as well as generating clear actions in the rival area, as well as having more peace of mind to define.
Incredibly it was 370 minutes without scoring a goal, until Deinner Quiñones invented this individual maneuver that beat Castellanos to save a point in the last sigh.
It is known that this project of Osorio in the scarlet box was initially agreed at 2 years, with various demands such as the construction of a high performance center in Cascajal and players who are now part of the staff. As long as he does not have a proposal from abroad, on the part of Tulio Gómez there is no desire to terminate the contract, as he considers that after Gabriel Ochoa Uribe is the longest-serving coach who took over the reins of the club in the following years.
This means that fans and sports journalism must be patient until finally, after the ideal training sessions, the red cast can find the level that Joan Carles Osorio wants, of course, when he recognizes the shortcomings that today they increase the lack of hope in the eleventh.
This Wednesday (5:30 pm) one of the fire tests will be to visit the Jaguars in Montería, where they need to win to advance to the quarterfinals of the BetPlay League, after a goalless draw in Cali and difficulties with the skilled forwards celestial.
Taking a look back at the last three coaches who have led the ‘devils’ in the first 10 games, Alexandre Guimarães got 5 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses, for 60% of production; Juan Cruz Real did so with 4 wins, 3 draws and losses (50%), while Osorio has 3 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses (40%), 7 of them for BetPlay II-2021 League, 2 of South American Cup and 1 BetPlay Cup. His team has scored 8 goals and received 6, by +2 in the goal difference.
Marc Antoni Garcés
Futbolred correspondent
Cali
On Twitter: @marquitosgarces