Independiente Santa Fe gave a coup of authority in the Metropolitano de Ditaires. He was not intimidated by the good numbers of the DIM-Formas Íntimas. With his practical and effective football, he was in charge of cutting him off undefeated with a 0-2 victory in the first round of the Women’s League semifinal to score a point in the series.
The goals of Diana Celis (12 ‘) and Ysaura Viso (75’) have the Leonas caressing at the end after making a correct match. They didn’t need big passing sequences to progress and wreak havoc on the mighty field to extend their winning streak on the road.
The first champion stood up from the start. With high pressure and aggressiveness in the script, he began to accumulate arrivals against an unknown Medellín, who had a hard time assimilating the positional changes implemented by coach Carlos Paniagua seeking to win in aerial football.
But that excess respect for the capital’s cadre cost him. And with the penalty that Celis got in a foul by Geraldine Cardona at 9 ‘he got into the game, despite the fact that Sandra Sepúlveda stopped Fany Gauto in it.
It was just a few seconds of celebration. The lack of concentration and mark of the Medal allowed the visitor to put together a new dangerous situation, which he could capitalize on a bad clearance precisely by Sepúlveda for Celis to fit the first after winning the rebound, which was a constant in the albirrojas, as well as prevailing in aerial football.
Medellín, without spark and uncomfortable in the first semifinal
And precisely from above he won on a chance that Viso sent above at the most critical moment of the Antioqueñas because it did not serve them to have possession. His lack of depth and offensive volume facilitated the work of his rival, that did not take a bulky scoreboard thanks to Sepúlveda’s interventions, with three heads-up wins against the Paraguayan Gauto.
The long balls of the Bogota cast caused damage to the DIM, uncomfortable with Tatiana Castañeda as a midfielder and Sofía García as a central defender, in addition to using Cardona as a right-back, a position he played in the 2019 tournament.
Among the little that it generated in attack is the option that Sara Córdoba lost in a good assist from Diana Ospina, which it cost her to transcend due to the good work of the Santa Fe midfield. Other appearances of Rojo Paisa came in quiet ball with Laura Aguirre.
Santa Fe extends the lead in the first leg of the semifinal
For the complement, the game declined, perhaps because the visitor managed to cool it down and never suffered it, largely due to the confusion of the current runner-up, who had no construction and this time could not reverse history with the entry of Katherine Castro and Yirleidys Quejada.
Sepúlveda continued with his contribution to give air to his companions who they insisted with Ospina on a constant pulse before Viviana Acosta, another of those applied in the visit to manage the advantage and wait for the ideal moment to specify the second. And it happened when Kena Romero, who entered the second half, looked for Ivonne Chacón to release a cross that Viso translated into a goal.
From there the spirit of combativeness of the premises collapsed, despite the fact that it had some situations with Castro, Ospina and Quedaja, but that heroic comeback in five minutes against Real San Andrés could not be replicated because he chose the worst moment to lose his undefeated. Now he will have to row against the current on Saturday in El Campín against a rival who already looks like a finalist and who played with criteria in Itagüí.
