Millionaires fan, do you believe in statistics or achievement replays? The albiazul team is tied to this in this tournament after ups and downs during the all against all, because with Alberto Gamero they proved to be an overwhelming club in the first dates with good ball play, great collective play in all its lines, an iron defense of few goals against and they were dates where the concentration paid off in each game.
Little by little, that good football that Alberto Gamero’s team was offering faded away. Doubts came in a BetPlay League 2022-II final in which the classification was scarce, but where they held the top for approximately a full month. With 28 units, the concern that could put Millonarios out began to be an unthinkable reality, but incredibly everything was being given so that Gamero and his team could say goodbye to the tournament without a prize for everything they rode.
The iron defense of Millonarios went down, as well as an Álvaro Montero with many doubts who was in the majority of goals against as one of those responsible. In addition, the childish attitude of Montero and Daniel Ruiz, among other players, the internal problems within the ambassador cast, among other aspects, began to take over the club. The fans burned game by game for not being able to achieve premature classification, they were even speculated outside, but it was really unthinkable that they could stay without entering after everything that had been done.
That’s how it was, because against Alianza Petrolera they managed to secure the important victory that finally led to the classification of Millonarios. A resounding 2-4 that went from restlessness to relief. The ambassadors, who were first, were close to being eliminated, but the victory was enough to secure fourth place.
Do you believe in coincidences? It would be the big question for the Millonarios fan. Well, it turns out and it happens that against all odds along the way that the albiazul team did, they did achieve classification, not before time as expected and not first or second that leads to being seeded, but fourth. From being eighth on the last date, they climbed four boxes. The last time the ambassadors were champions was in the second half of 2017 with a similar scenario.
Millionaires rowed against the current in the second half of 2017, as he was outside the eight on several occasions. During the second, until the seventh date they were outside. Already in the eighth they entered and came out again in the tenth day and in the twelfth, but later they recovered and closed the final phase of all against all tied to the fifth and finally, fourth position, a box that served to seal their classification to quarter finals.
In said direct elimination format, Millonarios faced La Equidad. Against the insurers they managed to overcome them with an aggregate of 3-2. In the semifinals they beat América de Cali on the road with a score of 1-2, and equalized in Bogotá without goals to seal qualification for the final. The ambassadors were a sea of doubts, since they were outside the eight for several days.
The best scenario to say present and overcome the doubts of Miguel Ángel Russo and Millonarios. The ambassadors managed to put the series on track with a solitary goal from Matías De Los Santos, and in the second leg, an agonizing 2-2 goal with five minutes to go from Henry Rojas. Yes, the one that will be saved throughout history for the albiazul fan.
Now, the scenario is similar, but in this case, Millonarios was the leader for most of the tournament, and was only outside the top eight twice during the first days. They never released the classification, but the alarms about the end of the contest did go off. They secured the fourth box, the same as in 2017-II they obtained. If you believe in coincidences, the panorama seems very similar to that of the last ambassador title. Before, they will have to overcome Group A against Santa Fe, Pereira and Junior de Barranquilla.
