Sports Tolima won 2-0 at Deportivo Cali by monday closes from League II-2022in the stadium Manuel Murillo Toro of Ibague. The pijao group was superior to the sugar group, which after the expulsion of Teófilo Gutiérrez, could not recover before the man less in the field. the beginning of the era Mayer Candelo It started with a fall.
The commitment began with intensity on the part of the Tolima team, which handled the ball in the first few minutes, but with little clarity in those moments. Then the Caleños little by little began to take control of the game, leveling the game in the layout.
The first clear option was for the local team at minute 12 from the left sector, in a good collective play and in the end Jeison Angulo finished off with power, but goalkeeper Humberto Acevedo stopped the shot to the side. Seconds later, the visitors responded with a sequence of passes through the center of the field, Teófilo Gutiérrez assisted Angeló Rodríguez in the last meters of the field, he finished off a cross and William Cuesta was attentive to reject the ball.
The two teams kept trying, but the pace to advance in the final meters of the field was low intensity. The most dangerous was Tolima, who made crosses from the right flank with Steven Lucumí, but attackers Yohandry Orozco and Michael Rangel were unable to finalize their options.
At minute 33, Cali tried again in attack with a cross from Aldair Gutiérrez, but Kevin Velasco and Teo failed to score. Five minutes later, before a corner kick, Teo hit Leider Riascos with a header and the central judge, John Hinestroza, after being called by Mauricio Pérez’s VAR, observed the play and expelled him with a direct red card, with which the match ended later. first 45 minutes.
For the second half, Tolima was quite incisive in the search for the goal with clear chances in the rival goal, but they lacked definition in the last meters
from the field, while the sugar workers withdrew well with 10 men and with some approaches in the attack.
When the visit was getting out of that siege a little, a well-constructed score came from the pijaos with a center from the right side, at the far post Rangel lowered it to the middle of Miranda, who only defined in front of the goal, but then it was canceled by the VAR for offside.
Then the teams began to refresh their lines. Andrés Renteria entered the premises for Miranda and Yony González for Onel Acosta in the visit. About the 69th minute, Tolima’s goal came again with a collective construction in which at the end Lucumí assisted Rangel in the area and the striker with a powerful shot scored the 1-0.
The Verdiblancos did not react and three minutes later those led by Hernán Torres increased the score after a good sequence of passes between Angulo and Renteria, in which the creative assisted Lucumí inside the small area, who made it 2-0.
In the end, Cali could only stop Tolima’s defensive power a little and they fell in Mayer Candelo’s debut as head of the team and in his first league game. For its part, the Vinotinto y de Oro added its first victory by drawing on the first date against Medellín.
On the next round of the Colombian league, Deportes Tolima visits Unión Magdalena and Deportivo Cali will receive Deportivo Independiente Medellín.
Juan Andres Arias Arias
Correspondent Futbolred Cali
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