Carlos Bacca is pure dynamite. Tireless scorer. Huge gunner. A player who never tires of scoring goals, who shows his validity and his opportunism in every game. Bacca is a goal man and had a brilliant home run: on Wednesday, he scored two goals to put Junior in the League final, with their 4-2 victory against Tolima.
Carlos Bacca has not always lived in praise. Since his return from Europe to lead Junior’s roster and attack, he has had slumps, moments of not scoring, moments in which he lost his scoring compass. But Bacca always reappears, always reborn when the team needs him most.
Bacca reached 16 goals in the championship to take command of the scoring table. As if that were not enough, he completed 101 goals with the red and white shirt, consolidating himself as the second top scorer in the history of the Barranquilla team. The first is Iván René Valenciano, with 166.
In the recent match against Cali, Bacca brought out his scoring nose, that of a predator in the area, like a player who does not forgive in the red zone of the field, who has the goal in his sights, who plays forward, to Wait for the ball to fall to your premises to give it the destination of the net.
Junior de Barranquilla beat Aguilas Doradas 3-1 on date 3 of the home runs on the way to the final of the Lia Betplay II. The sharks celebrated with goals from Cariaco González and Carlos Bacca.
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That’s Bacca, infallible, implacable. He scored against Cali after receiving a cross from the right, he got up in the area, surprised his marker and scored an accurate header. The goalkeeper almost took it out, he touched the ball, but it was on fire, it burned him and he went inside. Bacca’s first goal with a header in this League, he doesn’t usually score that way, but nothing is too big for him.
Then he received a cross and captured the ball in the air, without letting it fall to the ground, he saw it descend, he had a clear view, he had no mark, Cali was in play, and the forward took his lethal left foot to score.
Against Tolima he also showed signs of his wide repertoire: he appeared as a fisherman to anticipate Christian Vargas and César Haydar to score his first goal, and then, he had time and distance to stop the ball and finish from outside the area. Experience, they call it.
Barranquilla, Colombia, September 9, 2023. Junior FC’s 7-0 victory over Unión Magdalena on matchday 10 of the Betplay Dimayor II League at the Metropolitan Stadium. With goals from Carlos Bacca, Enamorado, Caicedo, on three occasions, Rodríguez and Castro. Photo VAnexa Romero/ETCE
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Vanexa Romero/El Tiempo
Carlos Bacca’s moment is sweet: he scored seven points in the home run. His present contrasts with his first semester, in which the goal was recast.
Even the legendary Carlos ‘Pibe’ Valderrama predicted it. In an interview before this championship he stated: “If Carlos Bacca plays, if they let him play, he will score 12 goals, and I will fall short. Look what I’m saying. If Carlos Bacca plays, be careful, if he plays, in Junior now in the six months he scores 12 goals. If he plays! “. He already moved on.
Carlos Bacca is a symbol of Junior. Player who knew how to score goals in Europe, in Bruges, Seville, Milan, Villarreal and Granada, in addition to the Colombian National Team. A Junior returned last year to be champion, as he was in 2010 and 2011, but he has not yet repeated. He pursues that dream and has an arsenal of goals to achieve it.
PABLO ROMERO
Editor of EL TIEMPO
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2023-12-08 05:00:00
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