With the best goal of the date, Deportivo Pereira elegantly said goodbye to the BetPlay League

The day 20 of the League BetPlay Dimayor closed with mixed emotions for lovers of Colombian Professional Soccer. The swollen Deportivo Pereira had the opportunity to fire his team in the semester facing Oil Alliance in local condition, and the current champion did not miss the opportunity to say goodbye with honors.

The current national football champion reached the last date of the ‘all against all’ without any chance of qualifying for the semifinal home runs, however, he needed the three points to boost himself in the reclassification table and rest easy.

Those led by Alejandro Restrepo they jumped onto the stadium grass Hernan Ramirez Villegas being aware that this was going to be his last time playing as Colombian champion, at least for this semester, and against the tankers they still showed they had the necessary game to pull off brilliant victories.

One of the most positive points of the match and the one that was considered the “icing on the cake” came at minute 39 of the first half. The wheel of the matecana Johan Bocanegra He got ready to execute a corner kick and as if he had measured the arc to the last centimeter, he charged with his left foot and hit the ball just on point to twist it, as it flew in the air it closed until it slipped into the arc of the visitors for the 1-0.

See here the Olympic goal of Johan Bocanegra with the Deportivo Pereira to advance them before Alliance:

At the end of the 90 minutes and with the 2-1 in favor, Pereira managed to close the semester in victory, also taking the most beautiful goal of the tournament, all just on the last date to delight his fans. Such was the admiration for the target scored by Bocanegra that even Win Sports dared to mention FIFA to be nominated for the Puskás award for the best goal of the year:

Despite being one of the most difficult goals that can be scored in this sport, this is not the first time in the history of Pereira that a player has scored an Olympic goal, two of these had already been scored before. The first to do so was Ramon Rodriguez before him Sports Tolima in 1972 and then followed Miguel Angel Sosa who marked it Cucuta Sports in 1976.

Pereira’s victory against Alianza Petrolera also served as a motivational boost for the remaining matches of the squad in Libertadores Cup. The Pereira team faces the Argentine club Boca Juniors on Wednesday, May 24, for the fourth game of group F.

In international competition the matecana He is second in the table with 4 points and has the possibility of qualifying for the round of 16 as long as he does not fail in the two remaining games.

He Auirrojo they finished the regular phase of the league in the 12th position of the table with 25 points. With the departure of the main figures in the title, the team saw a significant decline in its sporting performance, achieving only 6 wins, 7 draws and reaping 7 losses.

The removal of the set Auirrojo He continued with a ‘new’ curse of Colombian soccer and that is that he became the third consecutive current champion not to qualify for home runs the following semester.

Although the elimination of the champions is quite common in Colombian soccer, this is the first time, in the history of short tournaments, that the current king has left. three times in a row.