América de Cali defeated Atlético Bucaramanga 3-0 at the Pascual Guerrero Olympic Stadium, for the third date of the BetPlay Dimayor I League. new victory as a local that allows you to dream in this tournament.
In the first minutes there was high pressure from the ‘scarlet’ team with approaches to the rival area, but the plays were not completed. At 6 minutes the midfielder Daniel Hernández had to leave due to an injury to the back of his left leg in a ball dispute, in his place Juan Portilla entered.
As the minutes went by, Bucaramanga gained confidence, reaching the América area with quick attacks, after recoveries and collective play. At minute 23, the clearest play was generated with a cross from Sherman Cárdenas that Francisco Rodríguez headed back and Diego Novoa sent it to the corner kick.
Those led by Juan Carlos Osorio, responded in the 32nd minute with a good collective play down the left wing, which Carlos Sierra finished with a powerful shot that went just wide. A minute later, the Reds recovered the ball in their own half, the counterattack was set up from the right sector, which Portilla finally finished inside the area, partially finished off alone and went wide of James Aguirre’s right upright.
For the final part, the local made two variants, Marlos Torres entered for Pablo Ortiz and Larry Angulo for Didier Pino, looking for a better defensive solidity in the face of the advances of the ‘leopard’ club, which made the first cross shot with David Gómez who passed very close of the Novoa arch.
At minute 51, the ‘mechita’ responded with a charge from the side that the visiting defense rejected, they capitalized on the rebound, Adrián Ramos received it and assisted Sierra who with a powerful left-footed shot on the edge of the area scored the partial 1-0, with that the locals continued to attack.
The ‘scarlet’ did not lower their guard and scored the second. A great touch of the ball from their own field in which Portilla, Batalla, Adrián and Sierra participated, which made an excellent clearance for Larry Angulo, who in front of the goalkeeper defined above for the partial 2-0.
América continued by and at minute 77 a quick start was made with Joider Micolta on the left side, who had entered seconds before for Battle; He centers the ball near the crescent to Sierra who again finished off and scored another great goal very similar to the first.
The locals continued to dominate and even had several more options to extend the result, but in the end, with a good order and a very good reading of the changes by coach Juan Carlos Osorio, they took another victory with which the American fan later After a long time he came out of Pascual happy again.
On the next date America will visit Cortuluá, while Bucaramanga will receive Alianza Petrolera.
Correspondent Futbolred Cali
