Deportivo Cali was defeated in its league debut by 2-1 against Jaguares de Córdoba at the Jaraguay Stadium in Montería. The Verdiblancos, after being up on the scoreboard, suffer the expulsion of Teófilo and the locals take advantage to come back from the game.
The commitment began with Jaguares exerting high pressure at the exit of Cali, achieving a recovery after 3 minutes with César Carrillo who made a long-distance shot that went wide of the goal defended by Guillermo De Amores. The visit responded minutes later in an attacking projection by Kevin Velasco with a cross shot inside the area with Pablo Mina sending the ball to the corner kick
The game picked up a good rhythm and the locals achieved a fairly dangerous finish in which, on a long serve, Nelino Tapia ‘combed’ the ball in the middle of the field to enable Andrés Rentería who eluded the defender and was left partially alone with a shot with little force that De Amores controls.
At minute 19, Cali reappeared in attack with a shot by Santiago Mosquera inside the area that slightly deflected into a defender, but that was not a problem for Mina who was attentive. In the 26th minute, a new shot from the ‘sugar bowlers’ with Kevin Velasco who gets excited, although the shot goes off target.
Three minutes later, in a foray into attack by the Verdiblancos, Carlos Lucumí is shot down at the top of the area by Nelino Tapia and the central judge Jorge Tabares without hesitation decrees a penalty, Velasco asks Teófilo Gutiérrez for the ball, who gives it to him and charges the Pablo Mina’s left stick who chooses the wrong path for the partial 1-0.
After a few minutes, Teófilo is reprimanded with a yellow card upon receiving a foul and then raises his foot and grazes Jhonier Viveros, later the VAR in charge of Leonard Mosquera calls the referee to review the play and seconds later he annuls the yellow card and expels the captain of Deportivo Cali.
In the 40th minute Mauricio Castaño approaches the Cali area with a shot that De Amores rejects at a corner kick and in that same play they play short with Castaño who crosses to the far post, Rentería heads it down to the heart of the area and Héctor Urrego anticipating the defender, he sends it to the back of the net for the partial tie with which minutes later the first half ends.
In the final part, the game was matched in the middle of the field and no options were generated in the first minutes, so minutes later the first alternatives arrive in the verdiblancos, Daniel Luna and Aldair Gutiérrez enter and Brayan Montaño and Juan Esteban leave. Frank.
At minute 57 Jaguares arrives at the rival area in a good collective move in which Castaño makes a creeping center that the back of the visit cannot reject in a good way and the rebound remains that Rentería takes advantage of, who marks the second first for the victory. part of the local set.
Cali tried to overcome the game with the few spaces that the rival offered him, achieving the necessary approaches to do so, but they lacked definition and in the end those led by César Torres took the 3 points in a game that was worked on collectively.
On the next date, Jaguares receives Cortuluá in Montería, while Deportivo Cali will receive Deportes Tolima at its stadium, both will be on Wednesday.
Correspondent Futbolred Cali
