In the twilight of the game, Deportivo Pereira He ruined the plans for the current Colombian league champion, who was looking to fight for a new title, this time in the Betplay Cup. On penalties, the Matecañas were effective and after winning 5-4, they advanced to the final. They are waiting for their rival, who will come out this Thursday from the clash between Nacional and Cali.
Minute 14 passed when Anderson Silver he converted the first goal of the match, after a good defense-attack transition with which they misaligned the rival. Juan Fernando Caicedo received from Junior Hernández on the heart of the area and enabled Plata, who arrived from the right zone and completely alone, finished across to beat Santiago Castaño.
Deportivo Pereira had the chance to tie the game at 27 minutes, after a foul in the area that referee Jhon Ospina did not hesitate to sanction. Captain Carlos Ramírez got in front of the charge, but ended up crashing the ball into Álvaro Montero’s right vertical. Gilberto ‘Alcatraz’ García came to hunt the rebound but ended up squandering the option, sending the ball out.
On 28 minutes, Leyvin Balanta tried with his head, but goalkeeper Castaño sent the ball to the corner. Before going to rest, Tolima had another approach with Caicedo, who looked for a “hat” but crashed the ball into the post. Pereira responded with a shot from Fabio Burbano that went very close to the post.
In addition, the game was cut twice due to a thunderstorm and even with the heavy rain and puddles in much of the field, the teams continued to show their teeth. At 70 minutes, Tolima smashed another ball on the post. This time, Junior Hernández caught a rebound and took a shoe that hit the crossbar.
About 85 minutes, when Tolima began to settle for the result, the goal from Matecaña arrived as a cold water washout. Everything happened after a long serve by Montero that was in the hands of Pereira and at the feet of Brayan Castrillón he launched the attack. After a collective action in which the ‘Trencito’ Valencia also participated, Wilfrido de la Rosa was in charge of putting the 1-1. Equality forced the definition on penalties.
Definition on penalties
Deportes Tolima went ahead with the perfect execution of Harold Gómez and Henry Rojas evened things out. The second turn went to Sergio Mosquera and Aldair Gutiérrez, who also converted. The Hernán Ramírez Villegas stadium exploded with Castaño’s save to Leyvin Balanta and Brayan Castrillón’s score, which gave them the advantage. Ómar Albornoz scored the third for Tolima and Rafael Navarro made his collection, keeping the advantage. Ánderson Plata scored and waited for an error by Carlos Ramírez, who had already squandered a charge in the game, but this time he did. Thus they sealed the 4-5 and advanced to the final.
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